“Maybe it’s just that I’m a germophobe and wash my hands 20+ times a day”

It’s that.

It’s a phenomenal vehicle.

None of this is going to happen. Ask any automotive designer that’s been doing an AMA here what their greatest challenge was, and they will all say its packaging. It’s always packaging. Batteries have a huge packaging advantage, since you can make them in any shape, and put them anywhere. And you want to take that…

Someone has to invent a liquid (or otherwise amorphous I suppose) battery.

The late Charley Hexom raced very competively in SCCA road racing. His cars had manual gearboxes with a pushbutton vacuum-assist clutch.

Exactly. He should have considered the market he was getting into. You don’t go up everest without a guide, and you don’t disrupt transportation systems without a lawyer.

“What do we do about gun rights/control?”

If you don’t want to deal with regulators and lawyers, do something that doesn’t involve the safety of human lives.

Not only is reliability itself overrated, so is Toyota’s reputation for the same. I’ve owned an older A4 quattro, a VW TDI with a quarter million miles, and not one but two 3rd-gen Camaros, and by far the biggest POS I’ve ever had was a Celica All-Trac Turbo that had one prior owner and less than 90K when I bought it.…

Yeah I bought my 2001 wagon new and requested the bigger engine. It was a pleasure to drive on long road trips and had no problem flying up hills and passing slower vehicles.

The classes that require engineering textbooks with the word “Fundamentals” in the title invariably are the hardest classes.

There are no less than 15 other series running 911 Cup cars that are substantially similar to what you can buy off the showroom floor. What on earth is the harm in the top level of sports car racing allowing the cars to be the pinnacle of sports car technology without being prototypes. It’s a fairly blurred line, I’ll…

There was an AWD Pontiac 6000 too.

Two from cars I have owned.

That 4.0L badge was great when I was looking at new vans, as they had 3-4 different engines in them at the time (3.3L, 3.8L, 4.0L, 3.6L), the 4.0 being the biggest/quickest of the bunch.

Sorry. I have to disagree somewhat on the Taurus badge. That generation of Taurus came with one of two different engines, both 3.0l. The vulcan was an old pushrod good for about 155hp. The DOHC engine was good for almost 200hp. Where it kind of mattered was that with Ford’s arcane model designations I could purchase a…

Same suspension as a Crown Vic Sport. Jarred over every imperfection? Something tells me you didn’t actually own a Marauder. Out of all the cars that I’ve owned, driven or ridden it, Panthers still have the softest ride.

How soft is your ass if you seriously think these cars have an uncomfortable ride? The only people who I’ve seen complain about an uncomfortable ride in the Marauder are old people who are used to 80's fleetwoods or grand marq’s.

The ‘84-’85 LTD LX. 5.oL HO with LTD cop car suspension and all the invisibleness one could desire. Yea, it’s a CFI 165hp 5.0 HO but with a little work one can really liven one up. If you really want a rare one go for this:

Chick made Jesus sound like such a colossal asshole.