@Pkrat: Still... Tata has done a fairly good job with Jaguar and Land Rover to date. I'm seeing a LOT more exposure in the press around Alberta and BC, and their sales seem to have picked up as a result. Lotus, under their Proton ownership, is doing better than ever.

@Foozy Ploosh Room: Absolutely. And four wheel tank-treads can help the traction on an AWD car. If you have to DO something to your car to make it work as well as another option, you can't say that it's "equal".

@Saboth: Lockability. Most AWD SUVs don't have a proper locking AWD system (although some do). This just means that the AWD button allows the AWD system to do whatever it wants to do, but in many vehicles, without locking diffs, it just means you're going to start a different tire spinning instead of the one that…

@Deartháir supports engineerd in his star-quest: Also: if it's snowing and you're on normal roads a good RWD car with the proper tires will perform on par with most AWD cars.

A proper AWD system, as used by Subaru, Audi and Ford on their new Taurus and Flex, is the best all-around option for those of us living in areas where there is, you know, weather. The system allows all the power to be transferred to either the front or rear diff — and is also programmable to limit the amounts of…

Hey, good for them. Still fucking ugly though. Think they might have a bit more success if they designed it to, you know, not cause you to dry-heave?

Who "Digged" this? Seriously, my Jalopnik page now takes a minute and a half to load because someone's sent an article to Digg, and the article sent was about the Prius? Seriously? The PRIUS??

@engineerd: Excellent analogy. Even if you did compare Volkswagen to Chinese food.

@aSoundofSleep: The word you're looking for is "hoo-hoo".

@A strolling player is campaigning for engineerd's star: I enjoy your new user name... and must join in on that.

@03SVT: Texas has changed a lot since Hardigree moved back there.

Top gear track? Nobody? Nothing? Okay then.

Wouldn't almost fully submerged mean that it was, uh, underwater? This one appears to NOT be submerged, which is the actual unusual part.

My experience with MG's, although all second-hand experience, is that once it's de-Lucasized, there ain't much else that can go wrong, cuz there ain't much else there.

@BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ: AWD. But yes, that would be all that's left in life.

@engineerd: Some of us are campaigning for you, but I think you need to hit a COTD first.

@engineerd: I have never been happier to see that meme unexpectedly reappear.

@lilwillie: Excellent. Just excellent.

@MarywithanM: And really, if you've got Megan Fox and scotch for breakfast... do you NEED anything else?

@Pessimippopotamus Parkingtonius: AUGH! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?