Put a blue and white badge on anything and a certain type of people will buy it. The proof is their complete model line as it stands today. I was a BMW fanatic, but they've been dead to me for almost a decade.

I like the Maserati brothers. They sold Maserati and built OSCAs, which were also extremely cool.

Wonder why the 600 Mercedes are generally more expensive to insure than the equivalent AMGs? I'd guess it is because the insurance fraud temptation is so much higher when 100K of 'value' vanishes in 4 years. Same with the 760Li.

As Jesse's character witness, all I can say is that we recycle bitches.

Since the late '70s? Was this the Lotus Prototype? The production cars were built starting January 21, 1981.

@RamblinReck89: Hmm....I see them more as the chortling and soon to be dead Sicilian.

British pan-sexuals in San Francisco must spend more time thinking about NASCAR than NASCAR spends thinking about them.

Darn! When I first saw this headline, I thought it read 1200 HP Hennessey Venom GT Leases! I was ready to go full Nicolas Cage!

Toyota wasn't even the top SUA complaint generator when this story broke. This is all about Toyota selling too many superior cars relative to Government Motors.

The RS200 is as cool as a car with a turbocharger can be, but somehow it is the idea of untainted E30s that captures the imagination. I think people would be shocked to see what these M3s would auction for. An '88 E30 325iX with 58,509 miles just went for $13,251.01 on ebay. Imagine what a delivery miles M3 would go…

The greatest automotive hoax is modern day Porsche. They build neoclassics and obese barges while using Chicago political machine tactics to control every word that is published about them.

@NomadaNare: There was a time when finance companies would lend almost anyone money to buy or lease any car they had a hope of making a payment on. Body shops like being paid immediately for $35K repairs, and who gives a consumer loan against a wrecked car that really still belongs to some other finance company?

Has Graverobber ever driven a healthy Festiva? I had one back when they were new, and it was practically a Honda compared with competitors like the VW Fox, the Hyundai Excel, the Chevy Sprint, the Subaru Justy, and the Mitsubishi Precis. If you got the base 4-speed car, it was quicker than all the rest too. 1,800 lbs…

I once fell down a flight of stairs and did a faceplant on the hood of a then-new 560SEC. Didn't even make a dimple in the hood. I'd take one over any new Mercedes in a heartbeat, were I actually going to have to drive either one. The Audi is just an Audi. An unreliable Camry for people who aren't confident about…

@tonyola: I don't remember that. The early wagon was even something my family would have considered. We wound up with a Lancer ES Turbo, which had functioning windows but non-functioning head gaskets and instrumentation.

@FromaBuick6: Those back windows were simply too much. Sure, GM did A/C better than they did anything else, but a big percentage of the population smoked and wanted to be able to open their window down a couple inches when they did. I remember a salesman telling my neighbor that the windows on his related Malibu…

@Jim Hubert: When cheap endurance racing has run its course, and people ask what went wrong, the answer will be race administration.

@paulmer hates electric cars: Well, you could certainly get away with a single exhaust O2 sensor, instead of the current maximum of 3.

I'd like to know what could be done in terms of fuel efficiency and emissions reduction without catalytic converters and other emissions controls. Just harness modern combustion control technology to make a the leanest combusting, cleanest burning engine possible. These days, you'd also be saving some serious weight…

@black_peter: Why did he think he could get away with filing all those false police reports, robbing a kitchen out of a house he was losing, or ripping off his business partner? Probably the same reason, whatever it is.