Vallejo wrote in an open letter, "and there is NO price tag you can put on the life of a police officer who is out there protecting you." I'll put a price on it. How much would you have to pay his or her replacement? There are plenty of people out of work, and that dead officer won't retire at 52 years old to a six…

The Fusion isn't a terrible car, but it seems nose heavy.

I live in San Diego. If anyone looks like that, they don't let them come west of the I5 freeway.

Will they have passenger versions too? I worked for a place with a fleet of 15 passenger Ford E-350s, and they were awful. While they may last 180K miles with constant fettling, the quality, design, and ride were unspeakably bad. I drove a 2009 with less than 400 miles that already had a non-functioning power window,…

Maybe it is time for a new photo then.

BMW knows their market.

It isn't polically correct to call them 'ugly people.' The term you are looking for is Europeans.

I'd like to think that everyone here is just having a laugh. We're talking about 400 stupid cars. In a perfect world, there wouldn't be any Americans so poor at math that they could sell a single one.

Matte finishes are hopefully the final step in the race to the bottom. Tasteless, short-lived garbage for people too stupid to ask how it will hold up.

I had to vote crackpipe. I love the car. It would be a hillarious sleeper, and will be a cool old car on its own any day now. The thing is that it has been on the market for months at this price, and before that it never reached this price in a WELL publicized auction (BringATrailer.com). The definition of insanity is…

@chromal: When I looked at the Ford website, it seemed like they still hadn't edited all their content level listings. When I looked at the Focus spec sheet, it listed different drivetrain and equipment levels from when I used the build and price tool. The spec and feature list showed the manual transmission being…

@Arfdog: Here is the link to the story:

@Arfdog: The Truth About Cars had some breakdowns of proportions of private sales for best selling cars. The Focus is right up there with about 129,000 private sales in 2010. Only two American cars did better, and the best only sold to 150,000 private customers. The four best Japanese cars sold about twice as well as…

"The back end is so attractively-styled it's the first time in many years I've wanted to mount the rear end of an econobox."

Nissan Juke. It makes the Pontiac Aztek look intelligently conservative. The best thing I can say about the Juke is that it is ugly inside too, so the buyer will be as punished aesthetically as the public is. Also, Nissan building a bleeding edge drivetrain like the one in the Juke means these atrocities will be gone…

@Fedaykin528: Sad, but true. BMW was probably the organization that I had the highest confidence in of any in the world 15 years ago. Now I wish they would vanish from the planet so they'd stop tainting my nostalgia.

@Mike Spinelli: I'm guessing it has something to do with BMW products no longer being fundamentally sound enough to build into racing cars. I used to deal with Will Turner back when BMWs were great and I owned a couple. Their current crap makes me sad.

Speaking of driving on human blood, people in developing countries starve to death so we can make Archer-Daniels wealthier and better able to fund corrupt politicians through ethanol schemes. Environmentalists hate people and want to kill them.

Do I recall correctly that this is a real Pontiac ambulance? The sellers put the fake plate in the location of the original plate, so they knew a bit about what they were trying to fake. I suppose the authentic plate, which perhaps they removed to explain how they knew the location, didn't offer any relevant…

@jodark: Green is just misanthrope plus marketing.