Anyone who wants to use this as an automotive facility will soon learn why Honda moved R&D operations to Ohio. Be prepared to spend more on lawyers than real estate before ever a paying customer ever gets to turn a wheel on the property. You'll also learn more about Desert Tortoise Habitat planning than you ever…

@AMGkiller: What does your screen name signify? If you drive or aspire to driving anything with an AMG badge, or if you drive something that 'kills' AMG products in any sort of race, you're a pathological hypocrite.

@Vinchenz got fired on his day off??!?!: A couple of my friends bought homes in that area during the real estate bonanza. Two years ago, I was at one of them for a Christmas party when someone did a hit and run on a neighbor's car. We called the police and were interviewed when the responding officer did his report.…

@SynthOno: Seems like a fair question. The local free newspaper had a cover story on the black market for most valuables small enough to carry, in case you didn't know how much to ask for the iBook you picked up at a UVA library!

@AMGkiller: Mike is free to think anything he wants. At the point that he thinks his ideas should dictate my options, he is the enemy of my rights and my freedom. Plenty of good people have died for our freedoms here. It may well be time for some bad ones to do the same.

@Vinchenz got fired on his day off??!?!: It is supposed to reach 76 degrees here at the beach today, 80 degrees inland! It has been in the 50s and 60s for a while until now though. I was in C'ville for Christmas. I went to a place called Beer Run that was pretty nice, although there were too many hipster dufuses. I…

@Vinchenz got fired on his day off??!?!: I'm in Pacific Beach in San Diego now.

There is something about easily defeated security systems that allows the automakers to pack their products' feature lists with reassurances while still selling two cars to each customer.

@slackinfux: Next thing you know, employers would stop fleeing the state. We recently lost Honda's huge R&D operation to Ohio. I guess they didn't understand why a 'Desert Tortoise Habitat' study was more important to the state than a few hundred technology jobs.

@MikeofLA: No foreign country does as much harm to our way of life as CARB does. If you want a Prius, buy a Prius. Leave people who don't want one alone. You are an enemy of freedom. If our soldiers are putting their lives on the line to protect the constitution, they should have their guns pointed at people like you.

It does seem to be quite the little shape shifter from one frame to the next, but at no point does it stop looking like a Corolla AE86.

Considering that it cost $4,000 new and he wants $2,200 for it now, it has depreciated less than a BMW does in the first 45 seconds of ownership.

Wouldn't this be a motivation to start or keep smoking, so you'll have a constant source of empty disposable lighters?

@Roberto G.: Far cooler than being one of the empty celebrities that shows up on TMZ demonstrating their inability to find reverse in some european genitalia subsitute or waiting for a tow truck after hitting a pothole in their 'double dubbed' Escalade.

I have a 10 year old nephew. If he lives up to the potential family members bestow him with, the world will tremble. If he doesn't, he'll be like about 90% of the world's population.

@sdvictor: We were apparently at risk of cheating death!

@Sledgecrowbar: I hate to say it, but this could really just be a matter of a sloppily labeled graph. Had the creator of the graph specified that rates were indexed to 1987 and properly labeled the vertical exis for % of cell phone owners in 10% intervals instead of 1%, this graph would begin to make sense, at least…

A quick glance at this graph suggests that accident and fatality rates were in freefall...until people started using cell phones and offset all the other improvements in highway safety!

@parigote: You're cute, but the scale is labeled as indexed crashes per billions of highway miles traveled. There are no separate scales for fatal and total crashes, or expression of tiered rates as you suggest. For example, according to the graph there were about 8.2 fatal crashes per billion miles traveled and 8.2…

E36s could disintegrate in a vacuum. They were purposely made to self recycle. BMW considered it a cutting edge selling feature when they were launching the 1992s, going so far as to deliver the early cars with unpainted grey plastic bumpers and brag about how much less galvanized metal was used compared to in the E30…