The Fisker Tramonto and Fisker Latigo used many of the same design elements, but were based on the Mercedes-Benz SL and BMW 6-series respectively. I find their proportions much more elegant, and they don't scream formed by someone that knows nothing of performance the way the Karma does.

Spiegel magazine learned that Mercedes-Benz didn't file a new type approval for the W222 with Germany's Kraftfahrtbundesamt. They revised the old one for the W221. This isn't a matter of conjecture. It is the old car with a facelift.

I will not admit it is a nice looking car. Once you've sat in the back seat, you realize it is actually a huge, gaudy coupe that is scarred by the presence of two useless extra doors. The giant wheels are just a ghetto cliche and an indication of the role engineering played in this farce. Engineering was a walk-on,…

Financially feasible if you're a racing car fabricator, but still not worth doing. The Karma is an awful car. It takes up the real estate of a full sized sedan. It weighs as much as a full sized SUV. It has a back seat with 4 cubic feet of additional space relative to a Subaru BRZ, although the seatback angle of that…

Perhaps. That means it will spend twenty years being worth next to nothing while most of the ones built are scrapped or modified to the point that they're not representative of what their creators built. When original survivors are rare and the stigma of failure has faded from people's memories, collectors who were…

Limited mindset is not synonymous with having a memory and learning from experience.

Only about BMW E30s. I haven't even seen cocaine in many, many years.

Maybe its time to do away with the greenhouse all together and just have people lay on their backs and look through a periscope. Jim Hall almost made it work about 45 years ago.

They're great for moving 2 kilos of cocaine. You just need a dummy battery for the empty tray under the hood and a couple of cables that look like they're connected to something.

It certainly puts that diesel Audi CUV in perspective. A 320 hp Suburban at its gross vehicle weight has a power to weight ratio of 22.5 lbs/hp. An empty Audi Q5 diesel has a power to weight ratio of 34 lbs/hp. That's double the work load each horse does in an unladen Suburban. I just had to admit defeat on this…

Close! I had a part time job as a chauffeur a couple years ago, and I was driving a Suburban with Ja Rule, a little DJ, and Ja's body guard. I'm 6'2", 220 lbs, but the body guard made me look like a midget. He was carrying two duffel bags, and I offered to help him. He recoiled when I reached for one. I got to them…

I think you have its gross vehicle weight confused with its curb weight, which is 5,674 lbs. I've driven a few of them, and they're reasonably quick until you load them up with at least 1,000 lbs of people, guns, and ammo.

It must have taken some remarkable restraint not to compare him to Obama. I guess Jason didn't want to get audited.

It's going to be George Washington's axe if its restored. What's left on it that's usable?

You're right. I just saw the big MPH outside the circle and the numbers that seemed to correspond to it.

That's the point though, isn't it? Any value here is purely monetary, as the car wouldn't be any more fun than something related that would cost less than fixing the roof. There were over 110,000 1275 GTs produced, for example. Historical value? The 1275 GT wasn't a good point for British Leyland. The Clubman and 1275…

Good thinking. I didn't even see the Km/h label.

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I think a Mehari v. Mini Moke comparison test is required.