Pretty sure the correct answer to the title is "because it's the only new car from Sweden in years...."

They don't? I think these even make phone calls

chevron uses techron, which is a detergent. It cleans off the deposits as it washes through.

Your comment assumes a 'flash' would fix the issue. If it's a hardware problem, the clusters today can fetch over a grand.

I know very few youths with even the slightest clue what a clutch is.

It's Hwy 130, a toll road between Austin and Seguine. It isn't the section of I-10 out in the boonies of west Texas that the comments seem to assume. Of course, most all of the interstates are over 70mph as soon as you get (barely) out of the city.

The high speed limits are in many parts of Texas. We have hundreds and hundreds of miles limited at 75, 80 and 85 mph. Many of those are heavily used interstates. Still no outbreak of fiery death. We're just cool like that.

Or just because most Americans are as adventurous as a pile of vanilla pudding. We're doing just fine in Texas. No major outbreaks of firey death.

1) True, but offset by the fact that cars now have longer service lives. 200K is no sweat for much of the current automotive field. Divide cost by years/miles in service and I bet the results are not too shabby

I don't know who Lorne is, but how about a H/T for your sister site that ran this yesterday? http://io9.com/bewildering-st…

I get the comparison, I just don't find it helpful. I'm in outside sales, so my car requirements are pretty similar to a family. I need to be able to transport 2-3 people besides myself and a pile of junk in the trunk. Relatively few people can live with a 2 post car that has a useless hatch (thanks trunk brace).

What if you have more than one friend? Price isn't the only consideration. Besides the fact that the Nu-Z is awfully bloaty for a 'sports car.'

I was one of those Honda fanbois back in the day. My daily driver for a number of years was a retired Solo 1 Civic that I swapped a twin cam motor into. Back then, Hondas had lots of fun DNA in them. Zero percent body fat, nice suspensions all around, and bigger brakes and motors popped onto the car like lego…

What exactly are "super glutens" and "super starches?" Google is not providing me with a concrete definition, or even an inkling as to what that is supposed to be, or what makes it "super." I'm not calling it BS, but it kind of seems like BS.

It's pretty funky. I really miss the days when Nissan had nice, clean designs. I like the blacked out greenhouse, but the rest of it... Just a big mess of lumps and lines.

I wonder if the turbo makes it fast enough to outrun its own ugly.

So this is the day were Jalops discover the aging process. You know what I don't see anymore of? Pogs and slap bracelets. Weird, I know.

I think this is where we're disagreeing. The guy is stating he was fired for being a Christian, which would be discrimination. The only problem is, he's being fired for the reasons I stated above; inappropriate use of company equipment, damaging the client relationship and poor judgement. Those are all valid…

"I suspect that a lot of the people crowing over this guy's firing would be very much put out if Ford had fired a guy for wearing a rainbow tie to support LBGT issues."

There isn't much moral gray here. Your freedom to express yourself ends where someone else's fist meets your nose. In this case, a guy spouted off and got punched (i.e. fired). I have fired people for similar things in the past. To even begin to defend this guy implies that he has some sort of entitlement to hate…