Also the first Toyota with a front boxer engine and rear wheel drive.

Someone needs to fund a Tom Clancy movie starring Patton Oswalt right now. At the very least we need an SNL sketch.

I don't think you can say they aren't military, they have armed ships, military rank, and are the first line of defense for the Federation. They don't actively seek out fights though, they are more than happy charting new sectors of space.

Yes indeed, it happened with Trevor, then I woke up on the train tracks in my skivvies.

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…