Well said. A visit to France revealed to me why there are so few roundabouts in the U.S. The roads are largely fragmented and rural in France. Traffic generally moves more slowly, and the traffic circle allows people to quickly move through villages but also serves to calm traffic speeds. With the traffic loads in the…

You do realize that automakers sold 3-speeds in dog-leg configuration for 40 or 50 years? No complaints, really, except for the lack of more speeds.

Interesting find. Michelotti was an older designer, better known for well-tailored Maseratis, so this was a big departure for him. Gandini's Carabo stole the show later that year in Paris.

Wow, so fiiiiinally they've got something to rap about in Norway.

1987 was the year Buick sold the 3.8 turbo in any Regal and they moved 27,000 of them out the door. With so many well preserved, I bet a good pro-street GN can be had for well under $20K.

The Sinaloa lobby helped get it done.

The competition, I guess. I can't imagine a more challenging situation for competitors than having Audi and Porsche duking it out. I would love to see other names come back (Alfa, Jaguar, M-B), but they probably don't have the money.

Well, this pretty much guarantees a no-show from the Italians in LMP1 for the foreseeable future.

If these means we'll get a 1-cylinder 1-Series, then I'll be interested. Or at least curious.

I can't imagine the earlier, less powerful S320 sold well either. Though I do see a few around. Very confusing, though. The W140 has the I-6, the W220 has the V6.

Well worth the read. Nicely done. #COTD Life Experiences Edition

Good piece, but I was surprised to see no mention of the de Rivaz car. Cugnot clearly had an earlier car, but the granddaddy of internal combustion vehicles was an 1807 Swiss four-wheel machine that ran on hydrogen and oxygen and performed a combustion cycle using a piston-crankshaft arrangement much like modern cars.

Heck, Between Two Ferns was much better!

Coefficient of expansion. At 250, things look right.

I'll get heat for this but I have to say the luxury pickup truck. Why pay $64,000 for something that you should expect will get dented when you, say, plow the driveway or haul a few hundred pounds of stone out of gravel pit. Bedliner? Fine. Air conditioning? Fine. Leather seats, chrome rims, and a freaking backup…

This is certainly more awesome than that other failure from this time, the FWD V6-powered Quattroporte III.

Well done. Hell in a steel can. Perhaps the only way you could outdo this would be to somehow appropriate the 6-valve per cylinder V6 biturbo prototype and mesh it to, uh, I don't know, a Chrysler TC?

I believe you are correct. Seven made? Although I'm not sure exactly how many Type 57SC Atlantiques they were hoping to sell.

Hah. Nice. Appendix A: Care and Use of Your Hydration Tube

These calm traffic. Look how peaceful this one is.