@ssrock64: Any Testa Rossa worth a damn has already been wrecked and rebuilt more than once. Unless the crash turned it to dust, writing a sufficiently large check to the correct repair shop will make it worth $12 million again.

Since I'll never be good enough to get a lightly resto-modded E24 M6, I'd settle for one of these.

@HDC: I don't think the Times is showing any bias against Toyota, if that's what you mean by "not hidden". In this business environment for newspapers it takes some huge stones to risk a critical series of stories on the most popular car brand in your area. If Toyota pulls its advertising it will cost the Times a…

You're welcome, Matt!

@Ray Wert: Thanks for the link, Ray. Terrific piece.

@Urban_Monkey_One: That depends on the tolerances and quality of the factory that built it. There might not be hundreds of hours of prep in a new Lexus, but low volume cars from Italy and England are another matter.

@HurtsSoGood: Jesus Phyllis - Sorry for not being able to understand you meant "many people have confused need and want" when you wrote "everybody thinks they need a big farking vehicle". Can't imagine how I could have missed that.

@snapoversteer 'bout to get told: It was about Junior's House of Color. He's still around, too.

@HurtsSoGood: Not everyone does need a big farking vehicle. But some people do. If your kids are a couple of teenage boys, or if you have a job where you regularly have to drive adult coworkers or clients, a Corolla isn't going to cut it.

@abgwin: The Corolla is my pick, too. Small cars should at least have the benefit of feeling small, light and nimble even if those qualities are not played up like in the Civic or Mini. But Toyota somehow exorcised all of that from the Corolla. I can't imagine why anyone would buy one.

NPOCP of teh year.

@Sam Smith: Did I miss where Bugatti's were priced under $200K?

Porsche Cayenne and a pickup make the list but the Ariel Atom doesn't?

@pauljones: Paul, with all respect - comparing the A380 with the 787 is ridiculous. In the car world, this would be like comparing a Dodge Sprinter with a Audi A3. There is no competition or comparison between these planes.

@Jeb_Hoge: I lived in Phoenix for several years in the late 80's and early 90's. Their street layout is wonderful, but traffic sucked for decades because the locals repeatedly shot down tax increases to build freeways.

@Ash78, cube farmer: Athens, by chance?

I was a Ford trim tech for a few years in the early 90's and I can't even guess how many of these regulators I replaced.

Murilee - three words on buying a Sprinter for a cross-country road trip: Don't. Really, DON'T. Hell, I wouldn't trust a first generation to get me across the state, even if I lived in Rhode Island.

I'll try a few issues out of respect for Eddie and nostalgia for C/D's glory days in the early 80's. (When the cars were crap so the writing had to be good...) But the only magazine I read religiously anymore is Octane from the UK.

I think Hyundai/Kia's increase needs to have an asterisk on it because they've made a massive increase in incentives. They're buying a lot of their increased market share with cash on the hood.