My guess is the car they selected had to be a European sports coupe:

Thank god the BBC had Final Gear shut down, as now we'll never be able to figure out how to download it illegally. We'll just have to wait the 6 months for the shortened US version with different music to show up with commercials on BBCA. I'm sure that's what everyone will do...

With respect to BMW, I disagree vehemently on number 3. BMWs are specifically designed NOT to survive the test of the secondhand owner. BMWs are specifically designed to create demand for new BMWs. Period. They are designed not to last. (Please note I did not say "they are not designed to last". I said…

Pretty sure you meant Trans Am, dude.

It still freaks me out a little that a laptop SSD might have a 3-core ARM CPU inside it just doing SSD things.

Actually, the metric system was adopted as one of the largest protectionist measures to ensure (when it was enacted) that manufacturing business stays within the US. The idea was that the rest of the world would have to gear their manufacturing in metric or with conversions and what not to make things to work with US…

My daily driver is a bare bones rugged off road SUV. A 2011 Toyota FJ Cruiser. Should be simple then right? Let's count. The ecu for the engine/trans, the bcm as the main brain for the body of the car, then the ancillaries. Door lock control module, alarm control module, power window module, transfer case control…

Very nearly, I have an early Stealth TT.

Yeah, importing Nanos when they're 25 years old and beat to shit sounds a hell of a lot safer!

Tata Nano. Combine the purchase price with whatever it would take to import it over here and it's still very affordable. It's low price alone creates a market for it. But the thing can't pass crash tests

You are correct. There is absolutely no way for us to change the 25 year law. It cannot be done since nobody but a few of us care and its in the best interests of the auto industry to keep the ban. But, you're also right that importing a 25+ year old car isn't so hard. I've done it 3 times without much trouble. Did…

TRUTH: It will never change. I cannot count the amount of time I bothered contacting the DOT, NHTSA, and EPA. To be honest (as painful it is to admit), congressional decision makers/law makers/tax dollar wasters (whatever you call them) couldn't care less about the law. It works as intended and would not benefit…

President of the Senate

Heres' the problem: this isn't a "top of the stack" issue. It's buried, underneath just about everything else. Not that many people care. Obviously, we all care and it matters, but it doesn't matter to people outside the car world. It would take a lot to get a significant amount of other people, or…

There's Biden in the White House, but he's a 'Vette guy. He has everything he needs right here.

I've come across (in reddit) prior owners of cars from Pimp my ride under the Ask Me Anything (AMA) threads.

Man, all you excited people are going to really change your tune when you see a $37k price tag on a Focus.

This is going to happen, isn't it? :(

Mark Fields: "We will sell the Focus RS in America."

Counterpoint: A show about how much someone can scrape their undercarriage trying to enter a parking lot or how far can they stretch a tire before someone dies would also be uninteresting.