Consider the age/value of a car. If a car costs $30k+ it takes a fair bit of damage for it to be totaled. If its a 1980's Japanese sports coupe that isn't going to break $3k no matter what the condition is, all it takes is a hail storm, and bam, salvage car.

I've always like ducatis engines

Not to mention stupidly powerful and light

Has anyone seen how it does in the small overlap tests?

I find KBB/Edmunds to be very useful in making sure I get enough for my trade in, but somewhat less so when it comes to not overpaying to the vehicle I'm buying. The reason is quiet simple. I always insist on buying a manual, and those are rare, and getting rarer. That eats away at my negotiating leverage, since I…

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What does the Ozone have to do with it?

If you think that more cars+less revenue=disaster, then you shouldn't be short sided about your auto purchases and get an SUV. You'll need the ground clearance to deal with the pot holes.

Doug, its about CO2 emissions. After spending most of your 20s waiting tables in holywood, you finally made a name for yourself as Americas new favorite action hero. You have money now, a lot of money. You want to spend it on very flashy expensive cars, but when you do your twitter feed explodes with condemnation,…

True (sort of, the engine was a previous gen), but that rocket would have failed no matter what engine it used. I mean, there was what like 30 engines on a single rocket? That increases the chances of failure somewhat.

A good documentary on the story of that engine.

Overall I like it, for something that stays on pavement. Can carry light construction supplies, paints, electricians tools and the like. The off road video was amusing, it looks like it would have trouble traversing a pot hole.

Maybe its just the picture, but I looks like the driver would be hard pressed to shift gears without touching the passenger

Are you always this insufferable?

The inside shot makes the cabin look rather narrow.

I'd like to disagree, but before I do, I simply must know why you would want your lexusii filled with caramel. I can't envision disliking any car so much that filling it with caramel would be an improvement. I feel that if I could understand your line of thinking here, I would know a great deal more about the world…

As far as I can tell, its a great deal like a double wishbone. The gigantic gorilla arm brackets are the knuckle. The lower arm is made from a series of plates (pic9), the upper arm is made from 2 large linkages on both sides (visible in the pic 6-7), and mounted on an eccentric for adjustment. The shock is mounted…

not to mention propelling itself by utilizing of friction with the ground! Nothing new to see here.

Strange, I feel the exact opposite way. Functionally, the designer is looking for unique, rather than best ways to solve problems. Its highly unlikely that the suspension functions better than a conventional fork/swing arm combo. The frame is an over complicated mess, the fender brackets are much heavier than they…

Rotaries would have been the perfect engine for a pickup. Long combustion chamber was always going to mean poor milage, but the lack of a valve train should have translated into great reliability. The torque curve could have been managed by the transmission, it is what they are for, after all.