I'm not sure America has in fact got either cars or freedom right.

It would be better with giant lego figure hands

@Elhigh: What better way for a toddler to die than to be run over by a Veyron?

@hardeho:

@MushyHeirloom:

The Kia Elan didn't just get a new badge, it got a new engine. Given Kia's association with Mazda at the time, the displacement, and the fact that it strongly resembles one, I believe it is a transverse version of the Miata's engine.

@Elhigh:

@MushyHeirloom:

@Xelmon: The problem with Mercury isn't that the cars were crap. The problem is that they were, for the most part, virtually identical to Ford models. (So they were no more or less crap than the Ford models.) And where they weren't identical, the differences were mostly cosmetic. (The RWD Cougar there is just a…

The cars that killed Mercury were the ones that were virtually indistinguishable from Ford models.

The A10 was the last non-boondoggle aircraft the US military ever acquired.

Yesterday I found out that the boots on the ball joints I had installed 9 months ago are shredded.

@TSJ:

1969 gave us the 240Z.

Datsun Z. Head and leg room like no other sports car. Dude would probably fit into the thing like I fit in a Miata.

How critical is that arched a-pillar-windshield-roof line to its crash performance? It looks like something that could offer a lot of advantages (like not concentrating force on a single point that could break, and giving more lateral rigidity), but it is also one of the chief points of ugly in this car.

@papachilla: In Netscape's day, Internet Explorer was the excuse for Netscape

Every city in the world needs to take a long hard look at Sapporo, Japan.

@Bizzarodave: In sedan form, yes. The wagons look quite nice.