Horizontal integration meets marketing.

I'm visiting my folks and your reply prompted me to pick up my Racing Cars and Record Breakers 1898-1921 reference book that has been sitting on my childhood bookshelf for over 30 years. The 1902 Spyker had a 6 cylinder engine, 4 wheel drive with a center differential and 4 wheel brakes. It wasn't reliable enough to…

Sorry, but I can't seem to recall this sort of rock crawling ever being an issue for any but the lightest duty 4wd vehicles. The Raptor was supposed to be the factory truck suited to driving like they do in commercials; wheels up, gas pedal down. I've seen everything from Jeep Cherokees to 1-ton Dodge Cummins diesels…

All that aero-engineer drivel is pure marketing fantasy BS. The most aviation related thing about Saab cars is that they were once built in an airplane factory rendered superfluous because Germany lost the war. The 2 stroke Saabs weren't aviation inspired. They were reverse engineered DKWs; nothing more, nothing less.…

The E30 in the commercial is a 1987. The '88s had elipsoid headlights, integrated fog lights in an air dam with large brake cooling ducts and two horizontal slots, bigger taillights, and a deeper rear apron. 3 series cars did NOT have plush interiors in the '80s, and the 325 in the ad was the base model with vinyl…

I didn't say create, I said save. The hosts were at risk of being killed by the parasites of organized crime, so Obama stole money from independent and future working Americans to keep their closed loop corruption alive. Money that often ends up back in Democratic re-election campaign funds.

Organized crime; AKA UAW, AFL-CIO, SEIU, etc...

Tough shit moron. People can read the truth as easily as they can read you suggesting that Toyota buyers are the ones incapable of noticing the world around them.

Buy whatever you want. I'll continue to laugh when you pay a dear price for your inability to learn and the government you elected to save a corrupt way of life spits on your plight.

People that still buy cars from companies that have many decade histories of shafting their customers have nobody to blame but themselves. Chances are they are also responsible for the current state of our government's legitimacy.

C. - Did the Mythbusters start with an Australian GM car? I don't think this is repeatable with a properly engineered car.

The 9-4x was a Mexican car. It was a Mexican car with engines that GM gave up on passing off to their own undiscerning customers.

Buy a Cruze, get a Sonic?

The AP1 S2000 had 20% higher output, which makes a difference when you're talking 2,650-2850 lb cars. It also had 50/50 weight distribution and handling that didn't suffer fools, while the Scion has 53/47 and is meant to be fairly stable. The Scion is considerably cheaper, and also more utilitarian, so it is a very…

Honda S2000 - It doesn't seem likely that anyone will ever build anything like it again and it is an incredibly involving car to drive because of its screaming naturally asprirated engine, crisp shifter, and safety net free handling.

The price on eBay was $19,995. That's what the car was listed for. The lawyered-up thimble-dick offered $12,500. It wasn't the dealer's price. It is very easy to believe that the counter offer was a typo. The dealer's only real mistake was replying to a time-wasting moron. Had the dealer advertised the car for a typo…

If I don't want it at that price, I don't have to buy it.

His last date told him he couldn't be any uglier, so he proved her wrong.

Evolution isn't the word for anything GM did after 1967.

It may not be worth 7,500 dollars, but that is just because the seller didn't include the mowing deck. This thing could make a Dixie Chopper look like a Weedeater.