they named it after the nasty government death cameras from Charles Stross' Laundry series books? Nerdy and borderline evil at the same time!

Mine was the last model imported to the USA, technically a Pininfarina Spyder. The motor and transmission never gave me trouble, but I finally got rid of it when I realized I was paying over $300 per month in replacement brake calipers. Just going round and round the car replacing rusted stuck brake calipers with…

About old-school retractable manually operated tops: I had a Fiat Spider 2000 back in 1990. It started raining and I was at a stop light and it *seemed* like a good idea to just reeeeaach back and grab the handle on the roof... And yank... *POP* - shoulder dislocated. Had to shift left-handed all the way home. It did…

Easy answer. My families Volvo XC70 has 190,000 miles and will be replaced with a V60 in 10 months because we learned that we never needed AWD early on but couldn't bear to part with the wagon until it was well-used.

I will humbly put it out to you that I am a family man (wife and two kids), and I pulled this off. It is not easy. Here is how I did it:

Flat out? No, THAT is balls-out driving.

Didn't Enzo also disdain the buyers of Ferraris, back in the day? Seems to be a characteristic of the builders of Uber-high-end vehicles. Makes them *cooler* that their creators hate you... Even more exclusive! :-)

Continuous beard since 1981 here. Never removed, never longer than a neatly trimmed 1A clipper

Ford Taurus SHO driver here. I also get less than spectacular MPG out of my Ecoboost. Pushing a 4,000 pound rhinoceros through an AWD system no surprises there.

I have personally been involved in a ticket being thrown out because of a scrivener's error. I was a passenger in a car drive by a friend who was pulled over and cited for 45 mph over in a 65 mph zone. Yes, that's 110 mph. The fact that the state trooper did not cite for reckless driving and impound the vehicle was…

Yes, but the big commercial jets which carry us plebs are ALSO made here, so if Bombardier loses a few sales but Boeing gains a few because more peons are flying steerage, it's probably a net gain for the workers building planes.

having the gas cap cause a check engine light incident gave me the incentive I needed to put a crowbar to my wallet and spend $40 on a Bluetooth OBD-2 scanner and an app for my phone. Now I can read the codes and check the fix on the inter webs any time.

Megola, hands-down. Here it is:

I counted 26 rusting hulks in the woods by my in-law's farm. One abandoned car: not so bad. 26? That's a mess. I'm sure the first person who abandoned their car thought it was amusing. And the second. And the third....

get a base Elise and add an aftermarket supercharger. Presto! 245 HP for less money. Sector111 makes a great bolt-on kit with a good street tune. Add Larini headers and decay (or sport cat) and get 265 HP with an impressive boost on torque.

just a test drive. My buddy Autocrosses it, and takes it to the drag strip (10.8 seconds), but no track days... yet! I keep trying to drag him along, but so far no go. To put things in perspective, the worked Viper was much more predictable than my other friend's GT500 (which is scary, IMO)

one of my buddies has a Viper that he supercharged, 750 HP. Not nearly as impossible to drive as you might think... :-)

don't they sell most of their vehicles in Dubai and China? I can't imagine that the US market is THAT critical to Aton-Martin.

oh yeah - ignition key! In cold weather (I drove a Spyder as a daily driver & ski instructor transport vehicle), the ignition tumblers would seize. Not freeze; seize due to metal shrinkage. I had to lever and twist it just right to turn the ignition. Never happened above 15 degrees F.

I was the third owner of a 1984 Pininfarina Spyder. Not a Fiat; a Pininfarina since the car was imported for one more year after Fiat abandoned the US market. I acquired it from a college friend in 1989, after destroying my recently paid-off Mustang GT. I drove it as a daily driver for about 2.5 years. In that time: