@Grackle: Hey, thanks for your sincere response anyway!

@KillerRaccoon: I can buy that about the headlights signifying class in endurance racing, but I used to see yellow headlights in France in the late '70s and early '80s on a big percentage of cars. Any idea what they were doing, or if they still have them? I reached my Euro tolerance threshold long ago.

@C4_4life: Many of the worst products ever foisted on the public by the big 3 have been Motor Trend's Car of the Year. This is nothing new. Car and Driver's list this year has 6 cars that have the potential to be serious customer burning pieces of feces.

The only cars on the list that are certain to provide a good ownership experience are the Accord, the Fit and the Miata. Ray thinks the Fusion should be there instead? Cross shoppers will be shocked at the theadbare feel of the Fusion interior compared to the Accord's. It reminds me of the original K-cars in terms of…

@Grackle: I completely understand geometry. What I mean is that the tread of the tire is a substantial belt of rubber, metal, and/or polyester belts that have a constant length perimeter. Each rotation of the wheel still has the potential to correspond to a point on the tread of the tire to travel the lenght of the…

@philaDLJ: I went out with a girl in college who had a Camry from that generation. She LOVED it. I had an Audi 4000CS quattro at the time, and she was insulted when one of my neighbors confused her Camry with my car. I didn't really get it at first, but it turns out the reason she was so passionate about her Camry was…

@Grackle: How is it that the wheel with the deflating tire must spin faster than the three others that have the same circumference to travel the same distance?

The GMC looks like the marriage of heavy and useless. When it comes to MPG, there is EPA and reality. The two are growing apart again as companies strive to meet arbitrary standards that don't reflect the desires of consumers. I don't care what the EPA numbers are for a potential small pickup. The less emphasis the…

@Germanautoaddiction: In order:

@Assassin_Kensei: That isn't a good bet when you look at the percentage of GM cars that are Corvettes. Camaros probably have a lower manual transmission percentage than most economy cars.

@tsarcasm: ditto

@evool: If it is any consolation, I don't really understand how the physical circumference actually shrinks appreciably, considering it is made out of steel belts and dense rubber tread.

@evool: Doesn't one tire speed up as its radius shrinks due to deflation?

@crankyshaft: Touché!

@acarr260: When this car 'wins' the IOE, do the competitors who paid their entry fees feel hard done by? The team with the biggest budget getting a free entry and a pass on the rules sounds like something that nobody involved should be proud of.

@acarr260: LeMons organizers don't care about cheap racing. They care about being eccentric and ironic. This is actually just more of the same.

Preparation for taxi duty?

@crankyshaft: Get a job.

@TheUbermensch: It wasn't even my weed. I was with some friends who were trying to barter 'kindness' for tickets. Once they had all the tickets they needed, they still had 4 ounces of shake. There were a few hundred cops on the street and my 'friend' starts sticking ounce bags of weed into my jacket when I tell him…

@cobrajoe is being sued by Shelby: That didn't stop Soros from planting stories about 'studies' saying that marijuana didn't impair drivers.