@Mad_Science: That article about why "basic cars" aren't available in the US was pretty awesome.

@Tyson: After reading your insightful monograph on the topic of Porsche and douchebaggary, can you please publish a post-modern, quantitative analysis regarding that age old question of the positional difference between porcupines and these cars?

Found an unprotected trailer for the second robopr0n flick. Check out:

Paying for that optional trunk lid seems reasonable to me...

We been out-hooned by them damn Rooshkies!

There is one nice thing about that little AWD Ford/Jag wannabe. My daughter and I drove a rented X-type at 110 MPH EVERYWHERE we went in Florida. The state troopers would look at us and then just go back to their coffee and donuts. Apparently the troopers thought it was a Ford Escort and they were just hallucinating.

@Mike the Dog: You obviously never heard 'Trane's album, "A Love Supreme". It's sublime.

I certainly hope one of the sound choices will be "classic rice" - the unmistakable "blat" noise made during deceleration by a rusted out Mazda with a bad valve, a leaking header, $3000 in plastic ground effects, $1000 a pop rims and of course the chrome megaphone exhaust tip

The zone system used by DC cabs was designed with one objective: to make cabs rides for congressmen as cheap as possible.

They think that Nissan Z-car is dangerous?!

I'm not really sure the Dusenbergs are automobiles.

When I was an engineer for NASA, the spacecraft I worked on got electrical power from a SNAP-19 radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). It's not a nuclear reactor. It's a generator where the heat released by radioactive decay of PU-238 is converted into electricity by a bunch of thermocouples. These puppies weigh…

Johnny -

With 100K miles on my pickup, it wasn't a major surprise that the front wheel bearings needed to be replaced.