The time issue can be solved easily for long trips using a technique I already implement with Google Maps.

@pauljones & engineerd: It's so refreshing to see the light in a sea of darkness... I'm not talking about Sebrings or cars in general as art. I'm talking about QOTD. So often we're pigeon holed by searching for the empirical: best, worst, most, etc. Your collective insights step out of the bounds of the…

Whoa, Déjà vu.

If I can ever find that pattern of contact paper I'm:

I'm dealing with this tragedy through denial and fantasy... Is the LP640 an Autobot? Or a Decepticon?

@Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Firefox still works great for me. It takes a little longer to load these days, stalling the browser momentarily... but once it's up everything is like normal. Maybe you should try IE8 ;)

@Deartháir II:

I'm glad your experience turned out for the better, engineerd. My wife usually gives me the option, knowing I won't enjoy it.

I love the image that suggests the County Sheriff was still making payments on a bunch of '74 Dodge Monacos, 35 years later.

I like to tinker with my cars, customize and make them my own unique style. Remote start, keyless entry, loud stereo, they were all fair game for me some years ago. In fact, up 'til a few months ago I could start all my cars remotely with the push of a button, many of my friends' and family's cars as well.

@Captain Liverspots: Who says they aren't welcome? Is my rejection letter just hung up in the mail... everyone else already has theirs?

@Deartháir II: There was an escape clause for the ringer since day one. This is a publicity event, so a corporate entry is going to have to get manufacturer go-ahead.

I don't think of college binge drinking parties when I think of martinis. I think of James Bond and sophisticated, high-class, well-to-do style.

@Tedders:

Time trials? Dang! I wanted to see Wes go all Lauren Wallace on Bob Lutz... you know, putting him in the wall.

Apparently GM doesn't make employees sign intellectual property agreements... I can just imagine GM marketing that thing and asking those questions for serious.

@Pete Gaines: I think Harry Pfarrer saw the price tag and that's when he headed down to Home Depot to get started on his own.

This brings up so many questions about the Jalopnik editors... Questions best left unanswered.

They've also added a sweet, ultra modern, ultra stylish, mag-mount CB antenna... Surely they didn't stop there, this beauty's gotta be equipped with a JC Whitney CB radio and P.A. system that plays Dixie and farm animal sounds.

What a coincidence, I'm considering an F1 entry too!!! I've also looked at the cost benefit analysis, and I too need the costs to come down. *checks wallet* ...a lot!