I submit the 1964 Lincoln Continental... in Animal House livery:

It sounds like it'd be a fantastic autocross car, but I'm not sure what else you could do with a race car that tops out at 90 mph.

There's no such thing as too much power. It'd be more accurate to ask "What's the appeal of not enough tire?"

4: All the little bolts on that valve cover.

[Pun with sexual undertones]

Did a Volkswagen Golf just put the STi on notice? Is that what just happened?

Awesome! You can go ahead and send her without the car if it'll be faster.

This is America... we can do better than just adopting some backwater Aussie racing.

Wheel bearings and/or ball joints. You still have a semblance of control of the car with a flat tire or shoddy brakes... when a wheel separates itself from your vehicle, you're basically along for the ride at that point. That ride sometimes ends with the car on its roof.

Features of the ultimate car nerd's car:

I don't know if non-production cars count (The title asks for "Street-legal car ever sold"). If so I submit the Blastolene Special :

I wonder why they couldn't just put vents in the side of the tube every X number of feet that would bleed off the high pressure air in front of the pod as it passed? It'd be like a syringe with a series of small holes drilled in the side.

GM's never made a pickup truck with a 4-wheel independent SLA transverse composite leaf spring suspension. As far as I know, nobody has.

You forgot this one!

On paper I love GTO's... it is about the only powerful, RWD, 3-pedaled car that you can buy for a reasonable price without 'Hey, look at ME!' styling. I liked them enough that I found a low mileage '04 on Craigslist and drove two hours to look at it with cash in hand, with the intentions of buying it for daily driver…

In terms of modern cars, I'm going to go with the E65 7-series. They're still pretty luxurious, but it's amazing how the idea of putting an infotainment system in a car was ill-accepted and controversial little more than a decade ago, but now bottom-rung cars are available with systems that rival, or are superior to,…

I've always been under the impression the stabilizing effect came from the caster of the front wheel. It's pretty easy to stay upright if you lock up the back wheel of a motorcycle, but you fall over immediately if you lock up the front.

I don't know the specifics on the Cherokee, but if it has a 2-spd transfer case as anything named Cherokee should, it actually will have 18 speeds.

I was pretty young when I saw this movie, but even then I knew the chase was retarded... It's a Lincoln Town Car full of pudgy baddies chasing a pair of Ducati 916's

When Top Gear gets a hold of one, I've got $20 that says Clarkson will push on the rear fascia with his finger to show how much it flexes and make a comment on how cheaply made it is.