Lexus ES

Roundabouts are being implemented more and more frequently in America (for example, WV has installed a handful of them as guinea pigs already, and if they do well, they'll start using them regularly.) and signage really makes or breaks a roundabout. I would say a bigger challenge to roundabouts is that not much…

These are a good idea for areas with high pedestrian volumes, like pictured above, but many intersections don't have enough pedestrians to justify stopping all traffic for a pedestrian-only movement.

Hey now, somebody has to service the Evoques running around here. Smith sells Mercedes, Volvos and Jags as well, so they do pretty well. If you want something nice around here that isn't a Cadillac, Audi, or Lexus, you go to Smith.

I want a turbo disco Camaro, and I want one rather badly, like the ecoboost Mustang, but here's what I'd rather see: an LT1 disco Camaro. In the past, Chevy has been pretty good about transferring the base Corvette motor down to the Camaro, and while I really like the current Camaro, a lighter version with 455 hp…

One of my all-time favorites, Nuke Jismo!

The Moses dealership in WV is about, oh, three minutes from my house. And I'm already on good terms with one of the salesman, who I will buy from if I end up getting an Abarth. Aww, yiss.

I guess it depends on the person, I took a three and a half hour round trip in one, and by the end of the it my lower back had had enough. I really like them, and it's nothing a set of Recaros couldn't fix ;)

How is wind buffeting when the top is down at speed? I drove my ex's hard top Abarth for about a month, and was considering getting one myself, particularly a convertible Abarth, and I've heard that air movement does funky things when the top is half down. Any conformation of this?

I love me some

Coincidentally, yesterday my relationship status on Facebook changed from "married" to "single." Fuck.

Yes, power is just energy/time. The point I was getting at was just that a lot of people I know think they could care less about an engine's torque curve, and focus on what the peak power is, and don't realize that whether you're making lots of torque and transferring it slowly, or transferring a little torque really…

Peak torque is fairly useless without being able to see the whole torque curve, but the same could be said for horsepower. The Ram is at the far extreme of the spectrum, making wild torque, but it can't rev high enough to continue making all that power for very long. At the same time, if you have something that revs…

You do realize horsepower is just a rating of how much torque you're generating over a set time, right?

Have you, I dunno, driven a post-refresh one on a windy road? I have, and while I didn't push it to its limits, at 6-7 tenths, it does admirably.

The truth is that I actually developed the Beetle. I think. Anyway, I like the way Torchlopnik is going, keep up the highly entertaining work!

Mr. Stielow,

I'll be very interested to see how this turns out. Personally, I prefer the pre-2014 look, and in about a year or so I should be in the market for a low-mile used 2013 1LE. However, if GM can come up with a handsome looking car on the Alpha platform, they'll get me in the showroom.

People have been saying for a while now that the bowtie is outdated, and I modified the center of the front bowtie on my car. Can we get the flowtie put on all Chevrolets? It looks cooler, and is functional to boot.

Screw it, call it the STD so I can tell people it clings to the road like herpes, and never lets go.