We'll just call this the Lake Washington Technical Collage.

Are they sure he wasn't also on the Four Loko?

For every bad French car I can think of, there are 5 or 6 I remember that are awesome. Some of them are on both lists.

Did they go bankrupt? I always thought Matra's car business was just a side project of a big engineering conglomerate, kind of like Saab was and Mitsubishi is now.

What a great band name.

He had to do that. It was the only way to keep the seat clean.

True, true. The executive program to replace subways with Ferraris was a total failure, but it wasn't for lack of testing at the highest level.

The victim could have dodged this whole fight.

I'm with you. This thing looks like a stoplight terror, but I'd rather have a something a little tamer for experimenting with trailing throttle oversteer on public roads. Something lag-free, preferably.

I believe that's the "Guernica" edition C3.

Optional lettering for the front airdam: EVISNEPXE

It will be the same price as an M1.

Feathering is also Moss's word for it.

But Americans need the ground clearance to cope with decaying infrastructure. Federal deficit cap means no more new road projects ever. Eventually we'll all be driving hybrid Unimogs.

This is obscure and it's not a production road car, but I vote for the SEFAC, the French national racing car of the 1930s. Forix has a great feature on it. Designed by the guy who made Salmson cyclecars, the weirdness was supplied by a U8 supercharged engine that produced far less hp than the competition. The rest of…

"Heartwarming, Mr. Wint."

Nothing in there about top speed, but the Veyron famously beat the McLaren F1 to 200 mph despite giving the Macca a headstart at 100 mph. The new car sounds like an answer: 0-200 in 20 secs vs. the Veyron's 22 secs.

Wow. Just wow. That's explains the class streaming from the grille.