1st gear is exactly to my point yesterday in AOTD that the first production year of a car will see more changes than following years. Do you believe me now? I could deny it on Facebook...

Is it possible to fire a cannon ball and NOT hit a Toyota in California?

Good (but crazy) story and congratulations on COTD. I hope you get your money out of the guy.

Good grief that is long. I'll read it and get back to you.

Another cool story. Jalopnik is on a roll today. I'm starting to like Seb more and more. I didn't care so much about Red Bull before but always wanted to see Mark Webber do well. Now I'm cool with Seb doing well.

Keep them pictures coming, Hardibro!!

Where's the Jalop in this story? Was she driving something cool?

Great story and great write-up (as usual). Robb, you add a lot to Jalopnik. You are always entertaining.

That really sounds like a winner to me. Adding horsepower and lightness is always a good idea.

Great article and a good history lesson. We must all learn from history...and it tells us that light weight and V8s are a good combination. Low cost, affordable performance cars are the basis of any successful society. Give me horsepower or give me death. I have not yet begun to power shift. All your pink slips are…

Now that's a Dart! Too bad that one is destined to die (that is a drone conversion for dog fighting/live fire missile training).

I'll take a small exception to #6. There are always design changes and iterations with most of those changes occurring after the first year of production. This is due to the inevitable fact that, despite all the durability testing, the consumer has found a way to test it differently, real world conditions are just…

So in the spirit of Idol are they going to require the CEO wannabes to offer their rendition of various Ford products and grade them? I think this is actually a good idea. If we can get Jezza on the panel you would have the makings of spectacular TV. Give each candidate the task of reworking Lincoln and whomever does…

You've totally missed the point. It went over your head and hit the wall 10 feet higher.

Cool, cool, what an awesome collection of photos.

Airbags - saving lives until they kill you. Just wear your freakin' seat belts everyone.

You said it, brother. I agree, I agree.

Why not just boost a car or two up to speed and connect with the back of the train? You can transfer passengers and disconnect the cars so they can travel back to the station. Or, better yet, drop a car or to off with destination passengers so they can stop at the stations and boost the departing passengers car to…

I like that idea. I want to be a baggage gunner! Forget this engineering stuff that sounds like all kinds of fun.

The NSX was a marginal commercial success the first go around. Adding hybrid garbage to it marginalizes it even further. That will kill the car faster than installing a rotary in it.