I hope they have some options on the items, a la Smash Brothers. They always pushed better items on players in the back of the pack, but the strength of those got ridiculously overbalanced in Mariokart Wii, to the point that leading during the second lap was a questionable tactic. I know-if I want a plain racing game,…

Failing an ice ingestion test helped push Rolls Royce to dissolve into the companies we have today. Damn pricey to run.

Huh. I don't think I've ever heard that complaint about that car. Most people were really excited that it was a new design, not retro like the last 20 years.

As opposed to this? And hey, I OWN one of these.

Sorry, this is dated?

Sorry, it's...early and I haven't had my coffee?

Crocheting?

You know this isn't 1989, right? The crippling depreciation is the only thing I'd worry about, but that's a constant with most luxury cars.

The XJ and XF aren't good looking?

Hahaha, absolutely-though it's actually part load that's the problem. The mainshafts aren't anything a long breaker bar wouldn't fix :-) Say hello to your new slow roll motor:

Bah! They're Avons. They're run with crappy air filters on North Sea oil platforms for years at a time :-) The real danger is hitting one of their low-operating range critical speeds-that's when they decide to decorate the landscape with shrapnel.

They aren't mandatory, I promise.

Yeah, I have to disagree here. But I didn't think they were mandatory in the US anyways.

Those Mazdas weren't scrapped because of the airbags. They were scrapped because Mazda and their insurers would not take the risk of anything being wrong with the vehicles after that accident. The liability was too great. The shipping insurance covered the cost of the vehicles for Mazda, but since the insurance was…

Those Avons are actually still pretty valuable, they're still widely used industrially.

I almost started playing that video. But then the 'earworm' part of my brain shouted 'It's a trap!'

You really don't want to hose down the interior of any car. Even a Jeep Wrangler, which comes with drain plugs, is not a place you want to be if someone has had to hose down the interior.

Crappy back seat-and if you want to use it, you have to open the front door first! Great weird car, but not the most useful.

I'd vote the Fit over this, for the back seat alone. As much as I love the weird that is the element, I cannot sit in the back seat of an Element comfortably, while the back of a Fit is fine. Your cat in the first photo seems to identify the issue-the rear seat height is 4 inches or so higher than the front!

Not a bad choice. It's shocking how big and well laid out the interior is, it's very inexpensive to run and maintain, and short of offroading, you're set. It's excellent around town, you can do some hilarious stuff because it's so small (I have a friend who drove hers between 'car blocker' posts on a sidewalk before),…