Damn the Mythbusters for proving that you could polish a turd!

I welcome efforts to disguise the Audi R8 but this result is still ugly. Thankfully people don't buy many of them here. There must be 100 Gallardos for every R8 on the streets of La Jolla, not that Gallardos are attractive cars either. Never mind.

@underwear-ninja: There wouldn't even be any media frenzy over Toyota if it weren't being orchestrated to help Government Motors. Just watch. Pedal misaplication by 20 Toyota drivers out of 8 million vehicles will remain the only story worth covering while GM drivers suffer steering failures. Next thing you'll be…

@grzydj: Heartclick to you sir. It is enough to make you wish people still smoked in bars. Those hair products look flamable.

Even more sexy? It certainly looks better without its skin and ghetto bling rims, but still not particularly sexy. The ones at the dealer here look like graceless tanks campared to the other sports cars. Hell, even compared to the Blastolene Indy Car they share the showroom with.

@Adam Spano: Ferrari's F1 budget in each of the past 15 years says differently. What we're talking about is a used piston anyway. Is a used tire from a GTO worth more than a used tire from a winning Schumacher Ferrari? Are any of these components really worth much of anything? I would be more interested in looking at…

I'd still rather have a Hyundai Genesis and spend the upgrade money on shocks, brake pads, and tires.

The F1 piston is interesting just because it is so exotic. It was an important part of an engine capable of amazing performance. The 250 GTO wasn't even cutting edge when it was new. Their technical spec was a few steps down from that of Ferrari's sports-racing cars of 1962, cars which were by then mid-engined and…

@ironghost: Barney is a pimp?

@cejb001: A woman I know has one. I made the mistake of saying something like, 'how do you like your new Jetta diesel wagon?' She's apparently expended a great deal of effort trying to get them to fix it and is joining a class action law suit over it. BTW, she used to be a production engineer for Ford.

@abgwin: Thanks for posting this. I still know women who drive like the one in the ad. One of them was visiting me last week and rented a car. She called to say she was leaving her hotel. THREE minutes later she called to say that she'd hit a curb and 'it made the tire go flat.' While I was changing the tire, she…

It looks like a purple Saab. Two wrongs don't make a right.

@RadioFlyer: Your guess is as good as mine about the badge, but some of them have ascMcLaren badges on the grill.

@RadioFlyer: I remember when these things were new. There was a dealer somewhere between Gainesville and Vienna Virginia that always had them in stock. The valuation of a new Mustang seems high. You can buy the nicest one I've seen in decades for $8500, and it sits on the market.

@Sean Incantalupo: I didn't see any indication that he doesn't understand what is going on. Stance is about compromising function to chase a particular aesthetic. It is pretty natural for people who are into cars because of what they can do to not have much time for people who only care about how they look.

@snapoversteer 'bout to get told: I bought an '88 graphite Festiva L brand new in 1987. Even when completely intact the doors flapped in the wind and the hatch opening twisted and creaked around the hatch. You'd think it had been built by Ford instead of Kia.

The Mustang isn't chained to a fundamentally flawed layout that stopped making sense when the engine had to be water cooled to pass emissions standards. People don't look as stupid driving Mustang convertibles as they do driving 997 convertibles either. The 911 has porked up so much that the drivers always look like…

@drauzy: Wasn't the Cayenne the best selling Porsche for years? Seems to me that all they need is a worse idea to appeal to their customers and they'll forgett all about the 1.5 scale 911 replicas.

@MikeTheRipper12: If you won't believe me, maybe you'll believe urban dictionary.

@MikeTheRipper12: Hawaii Five-O? [en.wikipedia.org]