Can we expect something as interesting/unique as the Ferrari/GT-R?

I'll bet you a dollar those cars were not less safe than a 1920 Model T, which is road-legal in the USA. I'd be up for individual exemptions to the 25 year-rule, and excluding automakers so the roads aren't full of flaming Tata Nanos.

However, there is one glimmer of hope. In 2006, a highly reputable Registered Importer in Baltimore called JK Technologies managed to convince the government that the "B5" Audi RS4 Avant was "substantially similar" to the A4 and S4 Avant models already sold here by Audi (despite protests from Volkswagen of America).…

My Mother used to own one of those. The models in that picture must be no more than 5' tall.

Congratulations, this is thus far the stupidest thing I've read all day. Well done.

OF COURSE when people talk about a Carbon Tax they're talking about taxing individuals on the volume of CO2 they exhale each day. That's an honest assessment of the situation.

Those of us in the US, who just saw control of Congress go to the Republican party, can relate. Abbott would do well in the right-wing here. Rudd and Gillard should be embarrassed that their pissing around allowed a nutcase like him to come to power.

The answer, I think, lies in the further availability of quick-charge stations. We bought a Volt purely because of range anxiety, and the semi-regular long-distance trips would not be well-served by the Supercharger network. It's a great start but until they can get over that concern I think pure electric is still…

Yes... If it doesn't make financial sense to do so. Your logic is pretty flawed. What about those that only have a PS2? Should Rockstart port GTAV back to that because "it can play games?"

Great article, but two small typos: "CalEdonia" and "NAirobi."

I think Americans would have a lot less issue with militarization of police if it were truly done as a proper, rigourous specialization like this rather than just dropping tanks into small-town PDs.

Look into the tax incentives. If you live in a state which has them, combined with the Federal ones, it can make for a much more attractive price.

I live in IL, if you pay $7,500 in federal taxes here in IL you could knock $11,500 off the price of the car before negotiations.

In the first one the range extender only clutches to the wheels at high speeds when the vehicle thinks it would be more efficient to drive it directly. With a depleted battery, at lower speeds, the RE functions as a generator still powering the electric motors to drive the car.

The spare from a CTS fits the first-gen Volt, you just need to keep it in the trunk.

Congratulations, you're outside the 80-90% of American commutes that this is designed for.

You can get a Volt for literally one third the cost of a Tesla. Yes, they don't play in the same ballpark but that's a pretty damned convincing argument for anyone who's smart with money.

I'd love to see the math behind how you figure it's "more expensive to use." More expensive to buy initially? Sure. To run? No way.

It looks like a more mature, less-funky i3.

"Unless people, who have been in traumas, are in any immediate danger DON'T touch them"

There was a fire, you could see it as the car went over.

So, the capitalist Trabant?

You mean "Geoff."

The Pontiac Banshee concept, 20 years early?