I saw 3 R8s at the Audi dealer a week ago. Personally, I think they look better in all the carefully staged photos used in early reviews. The cameras were no higher than two feet from the ground, usually masking the front overhang and undefined nature of the fenders.

They must be superb at lobbying the sanctioning body for performance concessions. Back in the day when the Mazda was a Protege with 130 stock hp against 180 HP Integras and 190 hp BMWs, Mazda was the company that was allowed to run full race engines against intake restricted stockers from the others. How times change.

Wouldn't the 200 be 200 miles or 200 kilometers long? The timing results posted are confusing because the lap times and MPH averages don't correspond while the average speeds are identical for two pairs of cars.

Opel Ascona(Germany)

Me too R8 styling? Have you seen either car? The proportions of the new NSX invoke the Muira, while the R8 needs giant color blocks to break up its graceless and excessive flanks. Pathetic observation there Wes.

Ferris Bueller was a fictitious character from a lighthearted movie. Suggesting that alluding to the movie to promote cars is somehow worse than using images of real dead people as pitchmen is completely deranged. Hardigree needs a moral compass worse than he needs an editor.

This wasn't particularly exciting as a Japanese subcompact measured against the new '84 Civic line, but it is probably the best small sedan ever sold as a Chevrolet.

Italian Retard Out Cruising was how I heard it, and that way it applies to IROC Daytonas as well.

Break My Window and Be My Wife are about as close to worthwhile additions as any of the acronyms here.

Fiat - Failure In Automotive Technology.

You have a good point.

Great. Now even the Canadians have a bigger space program than we do.

Reality is that electric cars are the technology rendered obsolete by internal combustion cars. Energy density of gasoline is just too great for batteries to overcome, and batteries have been in a constant development process for over one hundred years. Almost every portable electric device in the world would benefit…

You suggested lobbying the car manufacturers, which I interpreted to mean appealing to them to stop using CELs. They can't remove them because they are required by law to install CELs, so changing the law is the only way to bring about cars that don't have them.

The government legislated the implementation of the check engine light, so legislative restraint is hardly a reason not to get rid of it. Just remove the requirement, and cars marketed to the ignorant can retain it. It isn't there as a service to car owners. It is to spur emissions repairs in cars that function just…

I'm sure the little ho thought she could put up with anything in exchange for access to half a billion dollars in graft. That quote from Musk shows that she had no idea what she was tackling. She deserves respect for not garrotting him the first time he turned his back, not that it wouldn't have made the world a…

When I lived in Manhattan a decade ago, there were a number of party limos running around built by stretching whatever piece of shit happened to be trendy that season(BMW X5 3.0 with a 120 inch stretch and opera lights anyone?). I suppose the stretched 500 esthetic could appeal to the same null sets that once loved…

"It takes real talent and patience to accurately recreate a half-assed job." The boast of all the best American car restorers.

The E36 has many nice qualities to go with its suicidally self-recycling nature, but it was also a good warm up act for the body computer nightmares of the E46 and I don't consider them to be easier to work on then E30s, unless you're only talking about M3s. The E30 requires timing belts and valve adjustments, but…

For me BMW's presence in the small sports sedan segment started with the 1602/2002 and ended with the E46. Whatever the E90 and F30 are, they don't have any legitimate kinship to anything that came before.