Exactly. And there’s no way trucking companies with the margins they’re currently toting are going to go for that.

It’s the range more so than the acceleration that I would be concerned about there.

Not to throw cold water on this, but the way that press release is worded gives them infinite wiggle room. Hybrid technology is not exactly the frontline of ingenuity right now; people are accustomed to it and as long as it can hook up to a gas pump, they’ll buy it.

Every one of my hobby cars comes either from Japan or Britain, but I’ll be damned if you catch me trying to make them “point-of-origin-correct”. I thought the extent of it all was converting everything to RHD or installing side turn indicators or weirdly-placed mirrors, but it appears I was wrong. This ... is…

Dear lord, must I always be the one to have to put up the Starion pics? Where’s the rest of the Mitsubishi detachment? Friggin’ slackers!

It would be easier to accept, if not for things like my wife’s 2014 Lincoln MKT not being able to tell the difference between a car in its blind spot, and tall grass. If the state hasn’t cut down the shoulders in 3+ weeks, my mirrors light up amber to warn me of the killer bermuda lurking just behind and to my right.

No, but he did write up the accident as the guy’s fault (despite “she hit me from the rear, that makes it her fault” as his stated defense), which meant he and his insurance company paid all our expenses — replacement car, rental, towing, etc.

Can’t stand SUVs for this very reason. You PIT a car just ahead of the rear wheel and it’s a threat to go over; you do it to an SUV and it’s almost a given. In addition to the already-high CoG, PITting in front of the wheel allows the wheel the opportunity to roll up onto the front of your car, getting the CoG even…

What I want to know is, why in the world would you think Ferrari would have a problem with materialism? We’re talking about a car company, first of all, that by its very definition makes materials (cars) and tries to sell them for profit. All businesses are materialistic to some degree.

I would posit the reason most people don’t elect to learn to fly an airplane is a combination of general fear of flying, and cost. I would love to learn to fly, but cost is definitely what keeps me from doing it. Owning one’s own plane is all but impossible for 95+ percent of the U.S. population; most private…

Lot of truth in this one. Back when I still owned a Mitsubishi Starion, I had a ton of Mitsu-related shirts/caps/etc., mostly because with a Starion you’re always getting asked how much you liked your Supra/944/body-kitted Mustang/etc. So the diamond-star-logoed stuff was a way to cut off a lot of useless conversation…

Each one of those pipes needs to shoot confetti. Bonus points if it also plays the Ringling Bros. theme song (called “Entrance of the Gladiators,” which makes it even better) while doing it.

May have been closer to $70k (insane for any truck, IMO, but that’s a separate issue); the shop owner called it a “...$60k truck, hell, maybe even $70k”. Said he didn’t want to take it off but the kid actually used the line “it’s no good unless it’s LOUD!!”. He’s a high-school student so the chance he bought the truck…

Got news for you: I can’t remember the exact number of major/mid-major cities I’ve visited or worked in across the country, because the number is way in the hundreds. In regards to total time spent, NYC is in my top ten.

I’m surprised the kid in the truck has a working car. I’m trying to help a fellow Jag owner out; the guy wanted to do something as simple as upgrade the front seats in an XF from the factory 2008 models to the sportier 2011 models. But the car can’t figure it out. He keeps getting airbag fault codes and other…

The local shop I use for all my old Jag work told me this morning they had a kid drop $60k at the Chevy dealership literally next door for a brand-new truck, and then come to their shop to have them cut the muffler off. Same kid called back in this morning while I was standing at their front desk; now he wants the…

I’ve spent about 20 years in media myself, all forms (print, online, broadcast). Print may not be totally dead but it’s going to be a niche product going forward, for the most part.

Eh, I wouldn’t say copycat. I’ve driven all the cars you list and they all have their own personalities. The only thing about a Starion that is “copycat” of the 944 is the box flares, and Porsche doesn’t have a unique claim to box flares any more than they would the pop-up headlight concept. The Starion’s box flares…

I’m not going to say what they should or shouldn’t do, I’m just going to tell you what they did and why.

This car and the Mitusbishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest twins define 80s sports cars to me. Very similar cars front to back, many of the same issues, many of the same high points.