@porsche9146: She probably walked into the sale with her legal team in place researching precedents to seek punitive damages from Barrett-Jackson for fraud. They sold their name for a $17,500 bidder's premium. You'd think it would have been worth more to them, and I guess they still thought the hearse would sell for…

@Just-Logan: Most, if not all, of the money is gone. They can't pay back what they've wasted. That's why the most blameless should be repaid first. That certainly doesn't include idiots that voluntarily gave money to this scheme.

It isn't like the Pagani Zonda was a looker. Whatever its strengths were, the Zonda made a Mosler Raptor look like a Muira. This one is just more of the same.

That BJ once rejected this car for authenticity reasons and now accepts it with even bigger authenticity doubts points to not all being well with BJ finances.

@airporter: There was a Pony in 'Saving Silverman,' but Jack Black fell on it and crushed it. I lived in the Netherlands in 1984, and we had the Pony there too. Also a bigger one called a Stellar, IIRC. Early US market Excels had a very low survival rate, with several hundred thousand of them getting scrapped in less…

@airporter: Sadly for two of my friends, I believed the hype in 2008 and recommended they look at Kias. They're not overjoyed and won't be asking my advice in the future. They'd have been better off with Yarii, but Corollas were changing hands for much more money at the time. When fuel prices are pushing $6 a gallon…

@airporter: I'm not sensitive to the landfill v. recycled distinction. The point was that people who weren't 'sheep' in 1992 and bought Hyundais instead of Toyotas now have nothing to show for it. Many a twenty year old Toyota is still serving as some working class grind's daily driver. Apparently enough of them to…

@Just-Logan: F$%K the customers. They're jackasses with more money than brains. Pay back the tax payers, perhaps specifically the ones that don't support energy scams.

It looks like the bastard child of the old BMW M-Coupe and the Monkeymobile. Was the 612 Scaglietti a flop? Where I live, I see Ferraris ranging from a silver Daytona to 458s and 599s on the street, but I've never seen a 612 outside. There are three places selling Ferraris in a 6 block radius of La Jolla, but the 612…

When I saw this headline, the first thing that struck me was that they still make Mitsubishis. That's too bad. This is the car company that actually manage to diminish Chrysler's products when their platforms were adopted for cars like the Caliber and Sebring.

@airporter: What's the point? You'd have to be pathetically maleable to think that your image is being damaged by driving a Corolla and the solution is to buy an Elantra. Besides, they didn't have the balls to use new Corollas. The Hyundais that are the ages of the Geos and Toyotas used in the commercial are now…

@magista: It is easy to see why Uhlenhaut didn't want them as unsprung weight!

If GM starts making cars with rooflines and rear windows that are designed for headroom and visibility because there is a woman making the calls, then this will have been a good selection.

@mattp123: Cops who've lost their respect for the law and the people who pay their salaries should quit their jobs.

@Lahjik: Because they have the keys to release them?

@Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager: If we ever see the other side of the suicide administration, Teslas will make great engine swap hybrids. Having been sold as electric, they'll never have to visit a CARB smog station, so they'll be perfect for NASCAR spec crate engines, or 18,000 RPM F1 V8s. Throw out several…

@HighHeadBlues: Thanks!

@HighHeadBlues: The values don't work for it being the engine speeds that correspond with the velocities in the first column. I thought SWAG stood for Stuff We All Get?

@tonyola: Are you saying that it is the engine speed at which the transmission will not downshift to a lower gear if the throttle is fully opened? Nice work. That actually makes sense. Thank you.

Can anyone tell me what the engine speeds in the far right column correspond to?