The three best bribe collectors get sports cars, and any whistle blower who crosses the thin blue line has to drive the HHR.

Holy smokes Batman!

Matt, I find this topic confusing. Using the Jaguar XJ to introduce the subject suggests that we should discuss reinventing cars that have been in production without evolving for too long. Then you take a hard left by mentioning car makers that were dead and are being reincarnated for marketing reasons before going on…

@KeyserSöze - Professional Blog Commenter: Amazingly, they were criticized for their styling when new, leading to the kamm-chop in 1970. My parent's neighbor has had one rusting to nothingness in his driveway for 35 years. His is a 1969 1750 Spider Veloce, and it had already been rebuilt to running condition once by…

@duurtlang: That's a VW Fox. They were made in Brazil and sold in the US in the late '80s. I have an ex-gf who says she owned one in the late '90s, but most of them didn't run very long.

I was wondering why I didn't see any of these on the street anymore. Now I know where they all went. I would suggest that the owner disperse his collection to a few different regions in the hope that a single natural disaster won't decimate the world's supply of 2nd generation F-bodies.

She gives face to the victims. The stupid, shameless, repulsive face of the victims.

Tortured artist.

@BaconSandwich: The proportions are more Skyline than Acura in my opinion.

Hummers make the best bait vehicles for vandals. An H2 parked where it can be seen by passing traffic, a 22, and a night scope are a recipe for good times. That's more than can be said for any Saab made since 1969.

That's the dumbest looking thing since the Volt Dance.

What does it mean? That if we rely on the current administration to run things, we'll wind up begging for China to save us and they'll laugh.

Practically every H2 I've ever seen has been driven by short women.

It is a Nissan Skyline R33.

Has anyone actually weighed the new pig? The old Cayenne weighed about 600 lbs less until someone other than Porsche put one on a scale. I have a January 2010 Car and Driver where they threw an empty Cayenne on a scale and it weighed 5,305 lbs. Porsche used to claim a weight range of 4,400 to 4,800 lbs under the EU…

@bmoreDLJ: I beg to differ. The marriage of Alfa Romeo and Nissan was almost as bad as the marriage of Renault and Nissan. [en.wikipedia.org]

I don't recall Colin Chapman building any drag racers. He was a tool, but he knew that there were more important accelerations than those occurring from stoplight to stoplight.

@tonyola: I hadn't seen that one before, thanks! Interestingly, there was a Chrysler Airstream too. It was a conventional car built to fill the sales vacuum that resulted from the Airflow's flop.

Model AA was one of a worldwide wave of Chrysler Airflow knockoffs. Mind you the Airflow was a flop in the US in spite of being the most advanced mass market car of the day, an early indication that engineering innovation might not be the road to sales volume in the US market.

@KNaudi: The majority of Buicks are sold in China because Mao loved them and it was China that dictated to GM the decision to keep Buick and kill Pontiac. It was good practice for taking orders from domestic communists.