I'll give it a try sometime. I wouldn't be surprised if it unlocks when the handle is let go, but maybe! Is that an official way of doing it, or just a hunch?

I use cupholders pretty frequently and am annoyed that my Audi doesn't have them. Even if I do have a bottle of water, it would inevitably slide off the leather seats and end up on the floor. And if I have a pop, it would be nice to have it not bouncing all over the seats and floor so it doesn't explode everywhere…

Nah brah, I like the separate keys. Both of my cars have separate keys, and only the Audi's is a little unintuitive. They both look like they could be ignition keys, but they aren't. My Grand Prix though has a plain metal key for the door, trunk, and glove box while the ignition key has the good ol' GM chip on it and…

It is a little odd, but given that a Grand Prix with that button arrangement was my first car AND I have long arms, it took me a long time to realize it was weird. Sometimes it's handy though because I can ask the passenger to pop the trunk when I'm outside the car and they can do it without reaching to the far…

Hooray for common sense (re: emissions testing; inspections)! Indiana doesn't have them either. If he needs help getting to the border, I can assist Underground Railroad style.

What is that sign supposed to even tell you? Looks like just a way to ruin the scenery.

I don't know what you mean by "ginned up" but Top Gear admitted to it themselves. And I'm not really picking sides on that issue for who was right and who was wrong, but I am calling out FunnyPapers for trolling or just being wrong in general.

Top Gear? I assume you're referring to the Tesla Roadster, not the Model S. And that incident is confirmed to have been faked for television and was an older, less advanced model. 

No, he was talking about how performance cars wouldn't need to be as efficient and could ditch the fuel efficiency gimmicks they currently have, like Mercedes' BlueEfficiency and possibly stop-start systems.

I think he's talking about the banks being bailed out by the government in Germany. 

1. It's an opinion article relating to a study, not just "here's a study that came out; no comment."

The 126p looks like a really fun little car, but if it were my money, I'd go with the cinquecento. It has more classic, recognizable looks and costs almost half as much.

Liters per 100km is still functionally the same as miles per gallon. You can convert from one to the other by flipping the math around, so they don't actually measure differently. 

I agree, and thanks for responding. Mazda's ideas about real efficiency are how I wish all automakers addressed the issue. 

You listed American figures. I believe he's talking about German fuel prices.

I cannot believe this article was published on Jalopnik like it's a good thing. The drive for more advanced efficiency in cars will not stop if gas prices rise. The demand would likely be even more. Notice the two times in history when the demand by the government and the citizens for more fuel efficient cars jumped…

Decent as a car it may be, but it's not terribly interesting. That would be like me claiming either of my two cars to be the most interesting because they've been unreliable over the years ('91 Audi 90 Quattro 20V or '96 Pontiac Grand Prix SE coupe). Neither of them are "interesting" in the sense of their engineering…

Haha, wow. That's pretty crazy. In America, wildlife scenes like that are only seen on the back windows of pickups! 

By auto-shift crap, I assume you mean the "manual" automatics? Where you can tell it when to upshift and downshift? Yeah, I even gave that a shot in a mid-2000s BMW 3-series, and it sucked.

But why would she do that? Nobody in their right mind would, and there's no way she'd even attempt to drive it.