Anyone remember that this is what the Dolt was supposed to be, before production reality made it a Daewoo Lacetti with black tape to suggest the two-plane side windows that were the worst feature of the concept car?

This generation Malibu had an Oldsmobile Cutlass twin which may also be worth looking into by the investigators.

Congratulations on the BRZ! It has more in common with an E30 than an F30 does.

I could have sat in a 458 Italia at the 11-99 Foundation Luau last Saturday, but I didn't get around to it and I was too drunk to drive it at a cop benefit. That's too bad about the narrow footwell, but I guess if you don't offer a clutch then you don't have to worry about customers with balls.

Nicely put. It is perverse to call GM a success. I'll give Skyactive some time, considering that my friend's Mazda3 engine with full sized bearing surfaces and moderate compression ratio still only went 80,000 miles, but at least Mazda sponsors club level motorsports, makes the Miata, and didn't need a dictator to…

So it is true? When I started reading reports of BMW saying this a few years ago, I just thought they were rationalizing their inevitable switch to FWD.

I used to really like BMWs. They were good looking, durable, powered by naturally aspirated inline 6-cylinder engines, had the best ergonomics, their interiors were restrained and business-like, their packaging was such that they had full sized spare tires combined with large, regularly shaped trunks, and they drove…

BMW has been claiming for years that the majority of their European 1-series buyers already thought the cars they owned were front wheel drive.

The Crosstour has a better chassis than that of the Countryman. The best description I've heard of that CUV's ride quality is brittle. The Cayenne is only good for women or eunuchs. The footwell is so narrow that I always feel like a champagne cork in the bottle with my nuts in a vice. The X6 isn't a good car simply…

I always used to read in the car magazines that these were great handling cars. I even saw one lead a race at Zandvoort in 1984 ahead of a couple of Carrera RSRs. Still, I've never driven one or ridden in one that didn't seem like a loosely related collection of parts. They made my '71 Valiant Scamp seem like a…

No Nissan Juke? No Mini Countryman? No BMW X6? No Porsche Panamera or Cayenne? How'd that happen?

Why is it that one party states regulate legitimate businesses formed by citizens out of existence and turn a blind eye to almost anything done by illegal, no, make that 'undocumented' aliens?

Just chiming in to tell you you're not the only sentient participant in this discussion, contrary to appearances.

Nissan is stupid enough to sell minivans with cream colored suede armrests. Killing the GT-R is positively clever by comparison.

I know plenty of 30ish year old people that are completely ambivalent or even hostile to history and heritage. Only one of them finds the Panamera attractive. You're correct that all of my knowledgeable car enthusiast friends detest it, especially the ones who participate in PCA track days. My friend that likes the…

The new Mustang is a horrible cartoon, but the Panamera is far, far worse.

I hope they make him pay the state's court costs when he inevitably sues to have his entitlements restored.

We drove a Dodge Magnum R/T the same day my business partner and I drove the R-spec and the Hyundai didn't feel remotely as powerful, no matter what it says in the owner's manual. The A6, which supposedly has 119 fewer hp, would run rings around the Genesis. Magazine testing backs this up with 0-60 times of 4.6-5.1…

Car and Driver isn't a worthwhile authority on cars anymore. They routinely recommend cars that are a pain in the ass to own and make up reasons to not like cars that aren't paying their bills come comparison test time. Most of their individual reviews are overwhelmingly positive no matter how big of a piece of shit…

My business partner was sold on the R-spec by his brother, who had read a bunch of glowing reviews written by paid shills as near as I can tell.