@Wunno Sev: Nice.

The good: It is light and efficient. The bad: It looks like an obese neo-classic. Like riding a bike in a fat suit.

Too bad the price is 20% too high. This could have been the lowest effort LeMonster ever.

@Iron-Balls Minardi: I wonder which one of them gets to live in their current city, er house?

Cue outraged whines of indignation on behalf of the earth from the wannabe troglodytes of the left.

People here seem to have just as good taste as the Sultan of Brunei. That isn't a compliment. The sedan these were based on was one of the 10 worst cars ever made, and this one looks like some tacky member of the lucky sperm club had them graft on an ill-fitting wagon top, making the whole thing look like a limp…

This is the only NCOCP car I can think of that I'd actually buy. Nice price. Not Great Price! But nice price.

@C4_4life: It is the most complicated variant of the VW VR engine family. Beg, borrow or steal a clue. The point of aluminum and magnesium should be to keep weight in check, not to provide spec lust for people who are completely ignorant. Are you the market? Buy one and live your dream.

The greatest Merc ever was the 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator CJ428-4 driven by Diana Rigg in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

@TurboBrick [LIGIER]: Are you sure about the four? There was another Renault sedan sold as the Eagle Medalion, but I think it was Renault 21 instead of 25 based.

@FromaBuick6: I'm rather fond of the GLHS and Neon ACR. K-cars were pretty bad, in the manner of market share destroying GM products, but the Omni and Horizon were good cars for their day. They were also pretty bomb proof when they stopped trickling off the line a decade later.

When my girlfriend wrecked my Jetta in college, I had a choice of a Beretta, a Camry, an Oldsmobile or a Monaco as a rental car. I took the Monaco in an instant. All I really remember about it was that it was big, white and soft, and that the HVAC and radio controls were mounted on wings that tilted with the steering…

Love the pickup truck beating the prototype and all the cubic dollar BMW touring cars.

@interrogator_chaplain: On a real sports car, form follows function. The Veyron is just Ferdinand Piech's big gay ego on wheels.

@C4_4life: Engineered to outlast the solar system? It needs an F1 team worth of support just to make it from this day to the next. The dealer here keeps them all plugged into battery tenders, as the electrical system is pure Audi on PCP and therefore has draw sufficient to kill the battery if you're not on top of it.…

I thought wheel theft was a dead business. It is too much like work.

@C4_4life: Good luck. The engine architecture is such that heat is already an issue before you turn up the boost. Hennessey actually was working on improving the performance of the Veyron for his customers who already had them when R&T ran their comparison test. I think he was only trying to improve the exhaust…

@M44Power: Yeah, it doesn't even have an automatic transmission.

Is it just me, or do the spark plug wires look scary as hell? Are we sure this thing is a runner?

Anything riding on those stupid NBA hoops is going to have all the ride/handling sophistication of a 50 year old Divco on dried out 10-plies anyway. Might as well have a brawny supercharged Viper engine instead of a frail little turbo mill, since mechanical noise is a better sound than the flinty squeaks and chirps of…