It would be nice if they could, but they've been the only company carrying the load for a long time, and they certainly don't have the capacity now; all of those other formats were technologies in which the developing company wasn't the lone participant. And especially with as competitive and averse to mistakes as the…

This is Mexico: there are no safety-obsessed lawmakers. There aren't any real lawmakers of any kind, to be honset.

Breaking barriers in the modern auto marketplace is for companies with large amounts of capital and whose futures aren't in question; Mazda has/is neither. A piston engine will get the same job done better and for billions (quite literally) less. I don't understand why there are questions about this.

That's a lot of speculation on your part to begin with ("you would see motors that would blah balh blah"), but there's a bigger issue:

I'm going to stand behind Earth Dreams, because the rest of those at least sound like someone was making an effort, even though the effort failed.

"Earth Dreams" might be the absolute worst of all of the green/efficiency marketing non-speak nomenclature that automakers have come up with so far.

So when do the "ban quarrying" movements start up like the "ban fracking" movements?

Ah, but yes, Portland is that ridiculous.

That's always been left for Cooper S models, no?

Everyone who went to the race, drove back lords knows how many hours last night, and is currently at their office reading this:

As a life-long Dallasite, I am continually baffled by how a group of even moderately intelligent people got together and decided it was a good idea to host a race in Dallas in the middle of the summer. It's mind-boggling. Mind-bottling, even.

Came here to say just this. Just an awful idea. I love the idea of a GP in Dallas as someone born, raised, and living in Dallas, but in the middle of the summer? Good lord. How much groupthink went into that decision?

Data always wins, you can't make these statistics up!

It's neither random nor unsupported; studies show that 98% of people find him completely unbearable.

I'll leave this here.

He's also a raging douchebag, so let's not leave part of the canvas blank.

yes yes, gen x and gen y certainly never did anything dumb, especially anecdotally!

It's not something you want on a daily basis, but sometimes it's something you have to deal with on a daily basis for a period of time, and after that time passes, there's some lingering nostalgia to go back to that time, especially if it never seriously inconvenienced you.

Such was my experience daily driving my Milano during the heat of a Texas summer. My commute is a little boring in the 135 now, if I'm honest. It's also decidedly less sweaty, so there's that.