Apparently someone has never heard of the US Marine Corps. You might like to knock the Iraqi military, but they had real combat experience. Venezuela can't really say that. Their military would simply be a small speed bump, guerrilla forces would be what would cause a headache. Not that it would ever happen.

Not so much where you live, but what you do. It's pretty easy to claim a truck as a business expense if you are a farmer/contractor.

I don't think many Americans equate Buick with luxury, maybe upscale, but not luxury. I'm in the Nevada outback where we have real cowboys. They wouldn't be able to move their horses area to area trying to pull a 30ft horse trailer with a van or Aussie Ute. Another consideration is ground clearance, for every mile of…

Iraqi armor divisions would abandon their vehicles when they knew A-10s where inbound. They had the nickname of "devils cross." I got to hear about it quite a bit during my time in Iraq.

The dash in the FR-S isn't textured, it's printed with a stylized T that can also be found in the grille, on the instrument panel, and on the surrounds for the window switches.

Part of them using the script they did for the 86 is so it could also depict 4 wheels in a drift. (Or so the salesman told me when I got mine.) I always saw BS rather than SS in the badge though.

The thing that killed the SVO was that it was something like 30% more expensive than a 5.0 GT, the last iteration offered only 10hp more than a GT. It had much better handling than a GT, but still, 30% more is a lot to ask from a buying pool that is 60% people who just want a car with a Mustang badge regardless of…

200 is a bit optimistic, I remember in an old Car & Driver article from 1998 that a HKS tuned Supra that did 189 in their top speed test. I don't remember what kind of power the car was putting out, but I'd wager it was in the 500hp range, which was pretty fantastic in 1998.

They did make Targas, I remember the local dealership had one my senior year of high school and they were asking $35k for it. It was two years old at that point, but still brand new.

I don't have a lot of love for California, but I seem to remember the cars getting crushed being involved with street racing, and modified with (in California, anyways) illegal motors and aftermarket parts.

Wasn't the Kizashi on the Jetta platform?

Thats the difference mainly between forged and cast wheels. It takes something pretty wicked to break a forged wheel, something you probably won't survive. A good high end cast wheel is plenty strong, but not as strong as forged. I believe the British Touring Cars use cast wheels and those guys drive the ever loving…

Somebody needs to build a rotoray Lincoln MKV!

The Subaru has different sway bars that give it just a hint of understeer compared to the FR-S. You can get a nicer optioned car from Subaru, but in my area the dealerships were marking BRZs up by $5,000 compared to no mark ups for the FR-S. So that's the direction I went.

It's not the only Ferrari I'd want, but if I hit the lottery it would be the first one I'd buy. The second would be a 512BB.

Just wondering what your criteria for a sports car is? As for the poor build quality, my FR-S is put together quite well, there were some very early cars that had some panel gap issues and condensation in the light housings, but mine has had none. The idea that a sports car needs X ammount of horsepower is relatively…

The dealership told me last month that it really depends on how well the FR-S does. When I was buying my car I was the only single, realatively young guy in there. Everyone else was either 60+ years old, or multiple kid families looking for a family truckster. Being that they are partnering with BWM seems like a good…

The FR-S is kind of a weird case since the Toyota 86/GT86 comes with options not available on the FR-S (aside from the 10 Edition). It's not as if they are rebadging to a higher performing model, just a better optioned one. Personally it doesn't bother me, but I don't have the Scion shame some FR-S owners seem to have.

Do you know id that's a fender badge made to fit or is that actually made for the rear deck lid? I'm not going to rebadge mine a Toyota, but I would swap the Scion logo for that Boxer badge.

THIS! I've had mine for about a month and a half and I'm nowhere near bored with it. It's not hard to find that extra 40 horsepower in the aftermarket at all. I'll still be well under the cost of the S2k new. I don't know where the complainers have driven FR-S/BRZs, but I doubt it was anywhere like the mountain passes…