Not exactly a PR blunder.

I'm sure it's probably been mentioned, but the GM Gub'ment Motors bail out thing is still coming back. It may have been good for the company in the long run, but lots of bad PR for the last few years.

You're saying it doesn't matter that the '10 through '13 Commodore's weren't imported because now there's a '14 Chevy SS that only has two pedals. You're also giving GM a pass on dropping the Solstice/Sky because Pontiac and Saturn were gone and for whatever reason GM decided that just that once badge engineering…

I can't find a photo of it as it was pre-digital/internet era, but I remember Gainesville (FL) Police having a C3 Corvette coupe that they confiscated from a drug dealer and kept as a patrol vehicle. It was always in the UF homecoming parade and we'd see it around town in the '80s. If I remember it had a light bar on…

I don't personally care for this shade of green. However, I will agree with, and support your reasoning. We live in a world where Accords and Camrys are somehow coated with a color that falls in the red category, yet seems to somehow have been formulated by a committee of bean counters and optics engineers to be…

Combining Mike's research and my own. It seems there are an average of 1.5 Mazda's per household in the United States. This means that there are far more than 10 million Mazdas on our shores. Mazda should really keep better track of their inventory. Also, the automotive landscape around here should be far less bleak.

Was the steering and suspension any different than stock?

I'm not sure I agree. But if they go extinct, we LeMons and Chumpcar racers will take our share of the blame. They make fine cheap racecars. The coupe seems to be preferred, but we do see plenty of sedans.

Fair enough, I'll have to reserve judgment until I get a chance to drive one, I guess.

Regardless of how it looks, I think its tough to call Crapcan racecar conversion ruining anything, as long as it doesn't have significant rarity.

I don't know of it being held as a car of the future, but I still don't get what the attraction was. Interesting engine (because it was a Yamaha and that's it). The rest of the car? Taurus. So what. Just another front wheel drive sedan. The rest of it came down to body kit. Am I missing something?

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I don't know, Travis. I went downstairs and looked all throughout the garage at my house, and counted all of the Mazdas I could find. 100% of them were Miatas. Based on my completely reasonable sample size, and extrapolating my numbers out to account for the rest of the country, I have to conclude that every Mazda in…

Try a marina. They usually have it but it's more expensive. Easy for me to say since I live in a part of Florida that has more coastline and waterways than just about anywhere, but there's got to be some on the Colorado.

Here's how airbag systems work. We generally say the range of change in velocity (velocity change caused by the impact) that deploys airbags is about 9-14 mph. But that assumes full engagement of the major structure of the vehicle. I get asked all the time why much smaller impacts can cause deployments. Here's the…

Crap, I've been drinking scotch all morning without a license. Oh, wait. I'm in Florida. Sweet. Bottoms up!

I'm with Max. Nothing was said to the effect of "Douchenozzles, and also lack of violence".

Cool helmet. I was sort of hoping this was about how racing helmets are designed and manufactured, though.

Best AOTD in a long time. I agree with all, except I reserve judgment on night vision until I've tried it myself.