I'm an industrial designer, and I agree wholeheartedly with this. Well, I should qualify this - I'm a graduate student in ID, and working on my thesis while looking for sweet, sweet employment. My background is actually in photography and woodworking.

Any job openings? I'm an industrial designer fresh out of grad school, and have been applying for months with no responses yet.

Looking at that interior is giving me an anxiety attack. I feel like the car is trying to surround me with anger and flashing lights.

I have a 2002 base model Focus, and cannot agree with you any more. The climate control operations are positively slick and easy to operate. Then again, the entire interior is a pragmatist's dream, with oodles of design cues that were really forward thinking for the time.

Up until 2007, Ford owned Aston. Aston's facelift earlier in the decade was part of Ford's ownership.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind this one remaining a garage queen, so long as it was displayed to the public and maintained. This is the last one, and always will be the last one - no use risking it getting destroyed.

I didn't know about the different charging systems, but I do know that the faster the battery charges the less lifespan the battery has. So in 5 years, how's his battery capacity doing? My gas tank is always 12 gallons, and I won't ever need a second car for those trips to see my parents or my friends.

It's massive because it's not just accounting for one half of the family's commuting, but also any kind of unexpected trip out of the house while the EV is charging, and any kind of weekend trip. That's significantly more than half of the family's needs fulfilled by gasoline, if you count the fact that most people…

Okay, but then the family still has a huge (massive actually) dependance on gasoline. Gas is still required for half of the family's commutes and all of the family's weekend jaunts and unplanned trips out of the house. Read: EV is not a solution at this time.

If your thought process is correct, then 77% of Americans only go to and from work. No social outings, no family visits, no friends to see, and no children who need chauffeuring. Presumably then, 77% of the American population could be eliminated with little ill effect (who wants a majority population of office…

You're recommending that these two-car families have three cars? Two electrics for the short commutes, and one petrol-powered for the weekend jaunt? The cost of that third car would be outrageous (initial cost, maintenance of a third car, and the energy cost of constructing a whole vehicle that sits in the driveway…

The potential for these cars to sit unused, rotting in a garage somewhere for the next 50 years is reason #1.

Drove my little 5-speed Focus from New York to Seattle and back with my girlfriend, teaching her manual transmission along the way. Many wonderful back-country dirt/gravel roads, and a cop in North Dakota who didn't seem to mind me drifting a bit on one doing twice the posted limit. More scenery than you could shake…

Drove my little 5-speed Focus from New York to Seattle and back with my girlfriend, teaching her manual transmission along the way. Many wonderful back-country dirt/gravel roads, and a cop in North Dakota who didn't seem to mind me drifting a bit on one doing twice the posted limit. More scenery than you could shake…

I guess I was more thinking about the economy segment, as the Sonic is certainly a member of it.

Only if you buy used. That depreciation is BANG, zoom, straight to the moon! I bought a 3-year old 30k mi off-lease Focus for less than 40% its original value. If I bought a similar Subaru or Honda, I'd be looking at 80% its original value.

Without being pedantic, I think you're missing the impressive aspect of the video: A Veyron owner is having fun with his car. He's giving it the beans on the track and strip, and probably had a big smile on his face even when he came in second. How many Veyron owners have done that?

I feel like I'm going against the grain here, but I'm with you Jason.

I have never recently seen an '80's or early '90's Hyundai on the road. They're fantastic cars now, and in the late 90's figured out reliability, but there's a reason they were 50 bills back in the '80's.

Laser sintering is a newish 3D printing process that can print with materials of a metalic nature - many titanium knee replacements are laser sintered titanium.