Amid Audi's other Geneva Motor Show debuts, the first official photos of the electric R8 e-tron dropped this morning as well. Am I crazy for liking it a little better than the gasoline-powered R8, in terms of looks?

In 1984 nobody was asking for a unibody SUV-crossover, but we got one and it was brilliant.

It looks good... but I think swoops like this aren't as dramatic in real life. The lighting in the photos is designed to bring them out -but by the time they are toned down for production and covered with a little bit of road dust it will be just another anonymous blob. The Mazda5 comes to mind here -the surfacing…

Yeah I knew right away it was awful so I went elsewhere... but it makes me wonder - are there people out there with good credit that just don't know any better? Is it just a Carmax thing?

Indeed it does. Heck, if I wanted to finance an old car with a personal loan I could get an unsecured personal loan up to $20k with my credit at 7% or less if I shopped around. His loan is definitely secured by the car, though. His credit wasn't good enough for anyone to give him a personal loan big enough. Having…

To hear him tell it he has a pretty standard car note, but the max length they would go is 48 months. Rate is something like 8% but he bought it less than a year after we hired him right out of college so he didn't have much credit history. I remember him saying he had his mom consign it.

Have fun replacing your brake pads every 10k from the ST's "torque vectoring." I get what you're saying about being more worried in the Porsche, but the ST hasn't exactly proven to be a low maintenance car out of the gate.

A guy I work with managed to get Wells Fargo to finance a 1997 SC300 with 80,000 miles and $0 down so I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard to get a note for a lot of the cars Tavarish posts.

If he got it for $19k new out the door like he claims he definitely did not get the optional Recaros.

Holy crap I'm pretty sure that car is just one or two subdivisions over from me and I see it on my mornig commute often. If I had the $ right now I'd grab it in a second to save the shipping. And these articles aren't really that crazy. I've been test driving ST, WRX, GTI, etc for my next car purchase at $30k in…

Yeah basically they gave us sticks on the things we didn't really want anyway instead of doing something interesting an offering one on the S60 R-Design or even the XC70. The C30 had potential, but was always FWD and never had a proper hot version. IIRC there was actually an S40 T5 AWD with a 6-speed for a year or…

Volvo was selling cars with manual tranemissions in the States through the 2013 model year. I wouldn't call that a very long time.

I work for a company that does hail stone and bird strike testing. Blades are tough. I've seen them shrug off baseball sized hail stones with minor damage.

Sorry I was trying to say not really less beige. I can't actually find a picture of a camry with extra lights and normal paint. But I did somehow get this when I googled for "Camry PIAA lamps". Happy Friday!

eh. Not really...

What a coincidence, I was looking for something to do tomorrow morning! I actually parked right in front of that cemetery last year for an event at the Alamodome. Had heard a rumor but had no idea it was that cemetery or I would checked it out.

No. Cars are not like TV's. Dealers only collect sales tax on new cars when they are also registering them for the buyer. If you are taking it out of state, you get temporary buyer's tags, walk out the door without paying sales tax, drive home, and pay it at the DMV or tax assessor's office in your home state when…