It really is amazing how much energy gets stored up in one of those cars...even when they look like they're going slow.

Shackleton.

And will continue to pay for it, unfortunately, in both money and blood.

Back when they were good.

Cruise control. I once rented a Ford Focus to drive from Central Illinois to Georgia. I didn't even bother checking at the rental place because I assumed all new cars have cruise control or at least all *rental* car would have it.

I know my first thought when my horn first broke. Jeezus...I use the horn a lot. Not sure if that's a good thing.

Having owned a recentish VW, I second your opinion about them.

Is this because rebuilds are cheaper on the turboprop?

Yeah but if it's an e30 M3....

I don't think you should be ashamed at all to blatantly copy how reddit does things. I would love to see all these sub blogs be treated like sub-reddits...with an easy method to subscribe and unsubscribe to them.

I think you've mostly done a fine job over the last couple of years. After getting past that horrid page re-design for whatever Gawker/Kinja upgrade...the site is back to readable. As to the sub-blogs, I think they're mostly great because people who are interested in cars aren't always interested in the same things…

Koenigsegg only makes like 18 cars a year so calling one a "production" car is a bit of a stretch. :-)

I drove an Optima from Chicago to Oklahoma last year and it was a really good car....somebody in the thread said "perfectly acceptable". This is an accurate assessment. If I were buying a big sedan like that, I'd definitely put Kia on my shopping list to test drive before buying.

I don't think very many self driving cars will be personally owned.

He's wrong in a couple of ways but he's also right in a couple of ways. It will increase urban sprawl, but not in the way he's thinking/claiming. Probably the worst part of sprawl is the paving of everything...parking lots. There won't be any parking lots...and probably not at lot of 4 and 6 lane roads, either.

This...this simple thing that Youtube could do would be enough to banish the potato phone forever....sigh...will never happen.

That's a huge thing, them not having that. No wonder NYC was all in a snit about them. I'da been too. :-)

This isn't even close to true. Of course they have insurance. http://blog.uber.com/ridesharingins…

Now the car you own is just your hoonmobile for autocross days. Spend all that money you would on a daily driver on racecar.

Someone is attaching it for him on pickup, there's a release the pilot can trigger on dropoff.