I vote for the Bentley Continental range. It couldn't be sold for a third the price as the unreliable VW Phaeton, so they spackled on flash to attract the worst elements of society. The emperor's new clothes, or at least the rapper's.

@Papercutninja (tweets infrequently as: Frequentlywong): When I'm telling some clown on a store bought chopper what I think of his cry for recognition and he trots out the 'loud pipes save lives' excuse, I just tell them to get a car if they're a chicken-schit. Whose lives are they saving reving their engines before…

@Papercutninja (tweets infrequently as: Frequentlywong): Where I live, we don't have many fat people. I think they have to stay east of the 5 freeway. We do have annoyingly loud Harley Davidson looking motorcycles though. I wouldn't care about them at all, except for the noise. Some people didn't get enough attention…

@Nick: There were a bunch of tuned Exiges at Buttonwillow a couple weeks ago. They sound good coming, but piercingly harsh going away. It is a really ugly sound, more whining destruction than singing reciprocation. I was hungover at the time, but nobody liked them for long.

@Papercutninja (tweets infrequently as: Frequentlywong): I'd like to think there aren't. A good motorcycle weighs between 400 and 450 lbs, and a complete pig of a bike weighs up to about 950 lbs.

Yet another Porsche 'special' edition. That's so interesting that I forgot to yawn.

@tonyola: It is like a VW, but with intentionally lower quality. That could be maddening. Incidentally, the next Jetta will be intentionally penny-pinched and decontented for VW's ignorant American customers. Watch out for drive-bys.

@JawzX2: That is the Ford GT40 'Bundle of Snakes' crossover exhaust system as raced at Le Mans in the late '60s.

There is a Miura P400 SV in the showroom at Symbolic Motorcars at the moment, mocking all the ugly new Volkswagen Gallardos and Veyrons with its beauty.

Wow. Hardigree could miss the ocean with an empty beer can from a Hobie Cat. He could be the next Dan Neil with refuse like this. Auto journalism will never be taken seriously with imbeciles like this getting published.

Rental cars can do anything!

.8%?? That means that 1 in 125 cars sold is a Mercury. Seems pretty hard to believe. The cover of my CR New Car Buying Guide for 2008 says that it profiles 268 cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs. At the time, 5 of them were Mercury offerings while Ford had 14 nameplates. It seems hard to believe that anyone at Ford has…

@zacarious: About thirty years ago, Mercury had different rear hatch glass contours and distinct fascias on their Capri and LN7 coupes. The Mercury version of the Escort had the cooler name of Lynx. Since then, I don't think there has been a single reason that has caused me to think I might buy a Mercury over a Ford.

While the Mythbusters have proven that you can polish a turd, by no means is it a certain outcome.

@GV_Goat: There have been enough F1 races put on to know that the endeavor doesn't pay for itself, let alone produce a profit. All it will do is transfer wealth to Bernie Ecclestone and create some work for locals who will be lucky if they're paid before insolvency crops up. There is a reason F1 races leave countries…

@Biapilotaceman: That wasn't meant to be the point in this country. If the government has money left over after legitimate needs are met, then they are collecting too much in taxes. It matters not at all anyway. Even Texas is spending money while having no idea how they will meet existing future liabilities.

@GV_Goat: How is spending tax money an example of unfettered business? There is nothing common about sense.

Able to escape any danger? It is a VW. Maybe if it starts...

Scanning down the Jalopnik headlines, I was taken aback by how gay Ford's graphics program for their production cars looks. This really puts it in perspective though. If the flaming Mustang is a pink Izod with the colar up, this BMW is Perez Hilton touching little boys.