You see what happens, you see what happens Larry? This is why treehuggers die young.

That IS a nice sound...

Aren't those mower trannys called hydrostatic transmissions or something like that?

Seems like this would be a sort of preventative measure for missing gears and possibly over revving...?

If you want this in your garage, stay tuned! Until then, I plan on getting Toyoda's letter framed above my desk so I have physical proof of how cool I am. That's more than enough for me. Jesus, it's far too easy to turn SUPER TOUGH AND SERIOUS JOURNALISTS into melting fanbois.

Yeah, today's TMS was a little bit of a grammatical travesty.

Rolls Royce + anything motor racing-related = fail

The Renault 14 "La Poire" campaign wasn't great. In French the term for pear also means gullible. So basically if you bought one, you were a sucker who liked short, chubby things that had corrosion issues. An oops that's really embarrassing in a company's native language.

Seeing Captain Phillips last weekend completely justified military tax dollars for me.

I agree with you here. I am actually a CR fan, but I think that automakers (and all companies that manufacture consumer products) should be compelled by consumer choice to try and make better product instead of just trying to make a sale based on a brand name. If their stuff isn't good, don't buy it. I know, it's…

I think this is good and I agree with others who say that CR is a source, but not the only source. I like to think of CR as the NPR of auto testing and I think there are some genuine car people working for them. But cars isn't the only thing CR does either. They need to test products in a way that will provide the…

Agreed. I would try and talk the guy down to about 3k less or so. I mean, it's still a 25 year old car. I'm betting it wasn't much more than $9500 brand new and can't have appreciated that much. But hey, points for rarity and rallying heritage.

Every time I or someone I know goes through ORD, something always goes wrong. Delayed/cancelled flights, impossibly short layover times involving a terminal change that basically involves going to Indiana and back, and a confusing layout. Blerg.

Top Gear is gonna have a field day with this...

Alliteration! Per the Freep, Alan Mulally has been quiet about Microsoft's rumored beckoning.

Musk is one cool cat and here's why: he knows he's done something industrially revolutionary and he certainly knows that all eyes are pretty much on him, and if there's anything that could be perceived as a black mark on his record, his competitors are going to use it as an excuse to defame him (maybe defame is too…

Neutral: When Did You Start Driving? How cheap was it? Did you have a job? Could you have afforded to drive without one?

Holy cow.

Edmunds found that a normal driver would need 7.5 years to make up the cost difference between buying a Toyota Corolla as opposed to a similar Toyota Prius.

While it was true not long ago that Korean cars were mostly junk, both Hyundai and Kia have invested huge sums of money (taking advantage of a purposefully spiked currency) to build cars that are great performers as well as stellar values.