I'll never understand the abject hatred of minivans, but that's beyond the point anyway. Minivans are huge these days, like Tahoe-sized. The only minivan still sold here that deserves the name is the Mazda 5. If you don't want that, but you don't want a bus, smaller crossovers are where you go, given the dearth of…

Posthumuous in-your-face, Edison.

I'd far rather have someone rattle of a bunch of questions about these questions—i.e., think critically—than someone who could answer me a bunch of literally trivial facts. These days, trivial facts are what the internet is for; machines can gather data much more efficiently than a human could. However, no machine is,…

They have a turbo I3 ready and waiting to be plopped into the Spark (I think it may already have been in other markets). That'd be a neat little car to see bopping around.

How about an American tail? Neptune pummeling that ship? The Mouse of Minsk, which I think has still to this day given me some kind of as-yet-to-be-identified phobia?

I'll never understand the minivan loathing. Up until the current generation of minivans, they're all pretty honest vehicles that are extremely well-fit to their purpose. No, they're not particularly fun to drive, and most of them are not very attractive, but why would you expect otherwise?

In this case, it's probably because VWAG have had a V10 for Lamborghini since the Gallardo, so it's part of that car's "brand", and the R8 is just Audi's Gallardo/Huracan.

I have to disagree with that, at least a bit. It's expensive enough to get everything certified and spec'd to various markets' requirements; I imagine there are at least some kind of interesting projects that don't happen because funding and time is taken up by making sure you can sell things where you want to.

I'm much less interested in fast than I am in interesting, and as La Mia Ferrari says, I4's, V6's, and even V8's are fairly common engines. I love V6 engines when they're revvy and naturally aspirated, even if they're just a Honda or Hyundai V6, and would be very happy to see one in the R8, but you toss on a couple of…

That's apparently endemic to Montero's, if memory serves. It's where the third row goes.

I'm sure the engines are fine, and the components aren't dealing with at-the-edge performance demands, but because they have to last so long, and many of them are stopping and starting about every 20ft, they do go through a lot of wear and tear.

No kidding; on top of all the gratuitous and totally absurd car-wrecking, you get a sweet and sexy 5-cylinder soundtrack. I'm in.

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I remember a story from ages ago about a guy in an '06 Hyundai Sonata who managed to crack 147mph. Pretty sure it was the V6; I wonder how it felt. Just goes to show how overpowered all our cars are in the U.S.

It's okay; Putin is so awesome that he can sink a truck in a mudhole, then pull it out with his pinkies without getting wet or dirty. Putin uber alles, or whatever the Russian for that is.

Ignore all those stupid responses to your post. You said it in plainest possible English at the end; you "ain't hatin". I totally get what your saying. While I might some day dream about owning a new R8, I know I probably won't, and though I'd be just as happy to buy a used one ten years down the line, it's still much…

It's actually a tradition around here—we measure snowstorm severity by crashing our cars such that they stick out of the ground perpendicularly, and see how big a car can be totally covered by snow before it's towed out. You can tell the most recent one wasn't too bad because a Spark is a tiny car, and this bank looks…

In Opel's defense, the Corsa competes with the Fiesta, not the Focus. The Astra OPC is the equivalent car, although even that competes more with the Focus ST, not the RS.

Having spent the summer in Beijing, I can tell you that the scent of nothing is exceedingly rare there. The smellscape changes about every 5 feet in a lot of places, from a fresh fruit stand, to a restaurant, to that bad-bar-beer smell, to sewage, to soot, to stagnant rivers, to flowers...it's just a cacophony of…

Not to mention that Kia has been doing black-out wheel since the current Forte Koup concept of 2008. And if you're referring to the red lining around the openings or the 5-spoke design, Fiat can hardly claim to originate that.