@frinesi2: Back in my BMW days, ads for V6s used to drive me batty. Plenty examples of it were contained in text in new BMW dealers' ads too.

@wkiernan: It might, but it isn't going to get you anyone that is more than a bad month away from being a whore.

@westford86: Since the French left the US market, I can't think of a single FWD car that doesn't put the engine forward of the center line of the front wheel, meaning that weight transfer puts that mass on the contact patches of the driven wheels under acceleration or when climbing hills. Nice theory though. I've had…

That BX even looks cumbersome in the hands of a great driver. I don't think it would have been competitive even if it had shown up 3 years earlier, when Audi was looking good with a long wheelbase car that also had horrible weight distribution.

@dwp: 200 Metro 6R4s were built, plus perhaps another 20 evolution models, although it is possible they were actually built from cars counted in the original 200. All Group B cars were built in similar numbers, as 200 cars had to be built to participate in Group B competitions. The exceptions would be the Ferrari 288…

Least desirable Group B car? Not even close! I give you the Shitroën BX 4TC. It was so bad that the manufacturer tried to destroy them all rather than have people be reminded of just how lame their engineering capabilities really were.

@e30m3: I knew a living Barbie Doll that went to Virginia Tech to major in engineering. She could have gone anywhere, as she was a genius that graduated from high school at 16 years old. She went to VT because of its status as Virginia's best engineering school(c. 1992). After one semester of being creeped out by…

@CaughtYouLooking: Are you sure that wasn't the Renault Clio?

A friend of mine that flirts with greatness was a production line engineer at Ford early in her career. The realities of working with the UAW were too awful to be overcome by her interest in cars. She was still considering an Aston Martin last year, I don't know if that means she was willing to overlook them being a…

Hemi Dart

You're certainly entitled to your prejudices, but I remember the Celica Supra. Most of them were gold with black horizontal surfaces, which was as trendy then as bloated and ugly is in Europe today. Many of the not-so-Supra Celicas of the day were as beige as beige can be. They were durable goods, but they had pickup…

The free market that puts $300K of our money on the hood of every new Fisker. Just like a public option would be 'competition' for private health insurance.

Wouldn't buy a Subaru Outback for some reason? Maybe the reason is because they bought one and put over 100K miles on it, with the expense that entails, or maybe because they bought one in Charlottesville Virginia, where 'they all get stolen,' according to the cops, who know that Subaru ships them with the valet key…

If heart clicking still existed, consider you'd have mine.

Obviously a matter of preference, but I thought the first FWD Celica looked very nice. The second one looked like it was melting. The third one was just plain blah. As for the RWD Celicas, styling was never their strength. The early ones were just miniature versions of the bloated Mustangs that preceded the Mustang…

@SagarikaLumos: A friend of mine told me about people 'hybridizing' white and silver Si sedans in Northern Virginia, where a hybrid badge gets you in the HOV lanes, or at least it did a few years ago. So if you ever see a Civic Hybrid with a sunroof, a chrome exhaust tip, and mirrors without integrated turn signals,…

@Bueller: I really want to understand.

@80Supra: It was by far the best of the FWD Celicas, and it was also about 2,500 lbs at a time when its competitors were heading for maximum density. In GTS trim, it was also in another league of intensity to all Celicas other than GT-Four homologation specials.

Fiestas are $77 a month now that the easily fooled are sated. I'd pay $77 a month for a Fiesta with A/C before I'd stick to this plastic hamper of a car on every warm or humid day.

Were I to destroy a car, it would be a Fisker or a Tesla to protest taxpayer subsidies of wealthy rimjobbers' toys. Preferably, I'd burn it with the leech inside.