I'm glad the Miata made the list. It didn't seem guaranteed as the number of spots dwindled and there was no sign of the Austin-Healey Sprite or Fiat X1/9. It isn't like there wasn't room for them, considering that the 240SX, Mustang, and Corolla aren't sports cars. I'm sure they have their fans, and I'm not bashing…

'Progress' in the same way that a mobility scooter is more advanced than a good pair of running shoes. There has never been a shortage of 'prestige' cars for people who only care about looking like they have money. BMWs used to also be good cars for people who cared about driving and knew how to do it.

I mean the one between the silver Dodge/Mitsubishi truck and the Chevy S10.

I know a few people who didn't stop driving BMWs when BMWs stopped being BMW-like. They care about two things. They want the cars to have high prices and for other shallow people to know that they have high prices. They also want the lease payment to be low, so they can afford to look like they spent their annual…

No, it doesn't make him 'look a right knob.' Go back to spin class.

They should have brought in Al Bundy as a technical consultant. He'd have told them that the third breast goes on the woman's back, for slow dancing.

The levers that removed the back seats from their floor mountings in our Econolines had violent over-center actions, and finished their travels near the struts that support the seats. Basically, it takes a great deal of effort to get the lever moving, and then it swings through its travel taking your fingers past…

The Suburbans went to auction in January 2010. In 2008, I rented an Econoline 350 that had 300 miles when I picked it up from Enterprise. The seats still clanked around in their mountings, the side doors rattled over bumps and flapped in the wind, the passenger side power window was dead, and the engine sounded like…

It is painful to see this ad knowing that BMW would be reduced to playing engines sounds on the stereo and gluing big chrome medallions onto the sides of new 7 series cars. They've become the tacky and false barges that they once took the luxury market away from.

The scary thing is that there are people who don't question California's complete absence of rational priorities. There have been huge crews working for months in my neighborhood, changing the dimensions of handicapped ramps of every curb at every intersection. As my landlady pointed out, she has lived here for 40…

I don't like the sound of turbocharged engines. Does this faux engine noise gadget mimic the actual engine, or does it play the sounds of the last generation V10? I suppose if the stereo is reference quality, I wouldn't mind recreating the sounds of the '91 M5's S38B38 inline 6. Might as well play it in a more driver…

The first time I read about the practice of ducting intake resonance to the firewall to make pleasing engine noises was when the first BMW Z4 was introduced. At the time, I recall thinking it was a little contrived. Can't argue with the results though. I don't think that I'll warm up to fake engine noises over time…

Reading back my last post, it was more obnoxious than intended. Sorry! I hurt my shoulder and am staying home tonight on prescription pain killers. IMO, while driving a foreign full sized truck is certainly a different feeling, the latest Tundra is a pretty nice kind of not right. My last post wasn't entirely true, in…

Sorry tobythesandwhich. I didn't mean to tread on your dreams. It was just a conclusion a friend and I came to when comparing our old modified or M series BMWs to a then-new Civic Si sedan in 2007. The ugly truth is the cars we lusted after in our teens in the '80s and can now afford with ease are slower than a car…

The Tundra is available as a Double Cab Long Bed with 5.7 liter V8 for $29,155. Having been around all these trucks, it is hard to believe that Toyota manages to price competitively based on the depth of engineering and quality embodied by the Tundra relative to the other trucks in the class. Pickup buying behavior…

I'm not sure jaws would drop. Nothing against your idea, but even a gen 1 or 2 SHO sedan isn't a quick car by current V6 family sedan standards. The added weight of the wagon would make for straight line thrust comparable to many of today's half ton pickups.

I was right there with you until you specified a turbo engine. Did you ever see the Green Brick, a '69 Valiant 2 door sedan built into a serious One Lap of America contender by Mopar Action magazine?

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What do you mean by the Chevy looking the most promising? It finished dead last, behind even the aging and unloved Titan. I'm no more likely to buy a Ford or Dodge than the Chevy, but it really didn't seem to offer much value at this price point.