Seriously. Mid-engined, DCT, possibly a hybrid option, possibly DOHC, possibly AWD, possibly twin-turbo. Revealed at a time when the average Corvette buyer is sound asleep after enjoying the early bird special at Old Country Buffet before going home to lay in his recliner watching Fox News. This is the first Corvette…

I actually have a silver Corvette Stingray tape rewinder lying around somewhere. Mint in the box.

Second this. If you can get past the Playskool interiors and old-man-car image, an older Corvette is probably one of the best performance bargains around. You get all the fun of a small lightweight roadster but with actual cargo space and a rip-snorting ‘Murican V8 under the hood. It’s fast, well-handling, reliable,…

Plus Peugeot is bringing over their full lineup from day one, while Fiat and Alfa just brought over 1 or 2 all-new models and gradually expanded as new ones came out. 

Mechanicaly? not that bad, the same as all the other 63-series AMGs with the M156 (so pretty solid once you’ve got the premature wear issues on the cams and lifters sorted out). As for the complicated electronic stuff surrounding the mechanicals? It’s a 12-year-old Mercedes, what do you expect? 

You know, this thing kind of looks like an Amarok. The Ford/VW partnership was just announced last month though, and it takes way longer than that to develop a car.

There are only two types of sponsors in Formula One:

And it’s perfect for NASCARs fan base 

Oh yeah. They have a small (Accent), medium (Elantra), and large (Sonata) sedans and small (Kona), medium (Tucson), and large (Santa Fe) crossovers, plus an FCV (Nexo), sport compact (Veloster), hybrid/PHEV (Ioniq), and two BEVs (Kona and Ioniq again), and soon a small pickup truck (Santa Cruz). They’ll hit that niche…

They already have a true EV and two diesel passenger cars. GM isn’t that dumb. And besides, PHEVs aren’t important anymore, all they do is bridge the gap between hybrids and electrics. We don’t really need them now that batteries are coming down in price and a coherent charging infrastructure is being put in place. 

To put this in perspective, I just found a 2000 456M GTA with 10,000 miles on Autotrader for $60K.

Chrysler under self ownership: Saved Lamborghini from bankruptcy, let Bob Lutz and Lee Iacocca make names for themselves as the automotive mad men that ended the malaise era, invented the minivan, got banned from NASCAR, and built the Viper, the K-car, the first Charger and Challenger, the Imperial, the Valiant, the…

Only if they give it a retro Bertone-styled body with a targa top and call it the X1/9.

Harley’s problem is that they are too caught up in selling the biker aesthetic and promoting the biker lifestyle to sell an actual bike. When you’re buying a Sportster, you’re buying the fantasies of every overweight middle management type having a midlife crisis, but when you’re buying a Scout or a Vegas, you’re just…

They had that once, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It was called Buell. It didn’t work because Harley dealers have no idea how to sell modern streetfighters and sport-tourers or handle potential customers under the age of 40 (or at least those not interested in a Screamin’ Eagle bomber jacket and matching…

The wagon-hearse-van thingy looks like a Bentley Mulsanne made hot, steamy love to a Chrysler Pacifica and had a Mini Clubman adopt the resulting child.  

And also:

What I think Lincoln’s lineup should be:

It wouldn’t be that hard. Take an F150 Platinum, give it the powertrain of the new Raptor and Navigator, graft on the front clip of a Navigator, and call it a day.

Tesla would never do that though. Even though they’ve made some of their technology public domain and make most of their money selling batteries to other companies, Musk probably wants the platforms and designs to be proprietary and unique to Tesla. And you have to remember that Tesla is a tech company that builds…