@Kamikaze5-0: 200 miles? Still a dream. Car and Driver tried to hyper-mile a Tesla, drafting SUVs and whatnot, and got 140 miles before needing a hotel room.

There is nothing wrong with a Tesla that an LS2 wouldn't fix.

They still have 2009 ZR1s in stock? GM couldn't sell crack to a DC mayor.

Porsche must control the message, because their customers are naked emperors.

@Maxichamp: How can you tell that it isn't a 'real' Bentley? I'm pretty sure that my local Bentley dealer still sells Phaetons, they just have Bentley badges on them.

@Pinzgauer in Hawaii has an E90 340CSI with the optional turn signals.: There are a few Pinzgauers chugging along on Coronado. They look pretty silly, because there are roads.

@They call me MISTER Scroggs!: It is sad that you were right when you suggested the car, but the ignorance of the ad text available on the internet trumped the truth. The wrong people are doing the wrong jobs and stupidity is king, or at least president.

@Fedaykin528: Wasn't it really the S70/1, and the car was the development mule for the S70/2 in the McLaren F1?

I realize that whoever is peddling the Marcos Mantis XP is claiming the engine is a 'BRM-Repco' V8, but surely there is someone else here who knows anything about Formula 1's history. BRM stands for British Racing Motors. They built engines. They built them in Britain. Repco is an Australian company. REPCO stands for…

Based on my experiences at a Chrysler/Dodge/Honda/Oldsmobile/Saab/Subaru dealer in college, as a service writer at an all makes shop while I was dissolving my real estate rental business, and as someone who has owned more cars than I feel like adding up, there can be only one. The Honda Civic defines reliability.…

@chathamh: If you know any women who have a clue what you're talking about when you say you're fixing up a mid-'80s Shelby Charger, send them my way. Even if they think it is junk, I'd still be impressed.

Are you really suggesting that a late '60s VW Beetle was known for its relaxed build quality? What was better built then? When was the last time VW built a car as well as they did the type 1?

@Peugeot 504 - the Car for Nigeria: The Germans decided that rich people driving the same cars for 10 years was hurting their balance sheets. All that timeless styling and fundamental strength wasn't as good as selling fashion and relying on people being fundamentally stupid and insecure. They were right. There are…

@JayBrizzle: DSM refers to cars built at the Diamond Start Motors joint venture plant in Illinois. The first product there was the Eclipse/Laser/Talon.

@87CapriceEstate: I worked for a dealer that sold a bunch of brands, including all the Pentastar ones except Jeep, in 1989. This was before Ram trucks became big sellers with the 1994 redesign. The minivans were the franchise, and it showed. They weren't just the best built Chrysler products, they actually drove…

@Pvt. Church: I live in a condo complex where the most common car is the BMW E90. The guy who has the garage next to the one assigned to my unit recently replaced his Infiniti G35 with an E90. I was shocked, as I don't know how anyone who lives here could buy one, as opposed to moving in with one. There is almost…

@Peugeot 504 - the Car for Nigeria: The BMW expert who Road & Track defers to for 'Used Car Classic' advice told me not to buy any 3 series made after 1991 or 5 series made after 1988. The E30 and E28 were pretty much bulletproof, provided you kept up with the M20s timing belt change interval. Sadly, even those cars…

@87CapriceEstate: Some of them were built by Mitsubishi, like the Colt, Conquest, Stealth, Raider, Arrow, Sapparo, Challenger, and I'm sure some I'm forgetting. Some of them were joint ventures, like the DSMs, which may have included the Avenger and coupe version of the Chrysler Sebring. Then you have the 2.6 balance…

@Scuttle: For me the themes detract from the event. I like racing cars. If I liked arts and crafts, I'd explore it in some other way. Similarly, the last time I made a cosmetic change to one of my road cars, we had yet to liberate Kuwait. Doing anything to a racing car that doesn't make it faster is fundamentally…

@songs: I had an '88 Ford Festiva, which was really a Mazda 121 made by Kia before Hyundai bought them out. I got it new in the June of 1987. It seemed much more substantial than the 50K mile Excel my friend had, although that isn't much of a sample. The Festiva failed its one year old Virginia state inspection at the…