Well, it was designed by Pininfarina.

The statement 'drastically improving outlook on the US economy' alone destroys your credibility.

They really reinforce the windshield pillars and I'd be shocked if it didn't have a pop-up rollover bar system like the other high-end convertibles do. Those things work pretty well from what I understand.

Um, you're assuming that a gas tax is the only way to boost prices. It's not. It's the most obvious and politically dangerous one though, and that's why Obama said he was against it. Taxes also need to be approved by congress, and can be repealed accordingly, and therefore less than ideal to Obama as well.

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe"

Sorry, but he was right then, and he's still right now.

Ten years ago who would have believed that Cadillac would be manufacturing a world-beating 190mph performance sedan, and actually selling them hand over fist also?

Ha! That road is great... the NY/NJ Lotus owners club does 'spirited drives' on there pretty frequently.

I'll take anything... literally anything... that will knock the FF out of the 'flagship' position in the Ferrari lineup. That design abortion should never have been there in the first place.

Exactly. And you can bet there are a couple of engineers at Tesla who advocated for a more direct (and accurate) warning, but were overruled by sales and marketing executives worried about damaging the brand perception of Tesla.

A lever? No no no. Tesla owners do not operate 'levers'. If it cannot be accomplished with a mouse click or via an iPhone app, they want nothing to do with it. Better to spend forty grand than to subject oneself to such pedestrian acts.

Nope, don't like it. The direct head-on view is good, but literally every other angle is bad. And I say this as a great admirer of the SL in general. This is a swing and a miss.

But aren't these things limited to like 70mph or something really stupid like that with the top in place? Or am I thinking of something else?

The outer case is also a DNA reader to sense if a woman is trying to use it and administer electric shocks accordingly.

Except Elon Musk is a huckster who's actually being funded with government loan guarantees and tax incentives to make his ridiculous little pipe dream on four wheels.

Electric cars can blow me. That is all.

My parents best friends sent their kid to GWU. He came back with addictions to cocaine, adderall and oxycontin, and zero interest in ever finding a job.

See, now THATS a truck. Sweet.

99% of that crap are things that only people who've had access to every single exotic car ever made in the last twenty years would say. The average person - even the average enthusiast - would not split such hairs. Yeah, maybe the NSX was a better car. But if you put someone behind the wheel of a 348 and let him drive…

As a former 348 owner, I'd like to personally state for the record that the 348 was a great car. I don't know where its bad reputation comes from. It was one of the last of the true drivers cars that Ferrari made, before everything went digital and carbon fiber and you needed a doctorate to change the oil.