@Vega: In addition to what Mr. Jones said, it should be added that the belief that there is no change in the design is actually a fallacy. The change is simply evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and it's hard to see without looking at it from a greater distance. For instance, if you go back and look at the Astons…

@theChineyz: Uh, yeah, let's call this your friendly Deartháir heads-up, mmmkay? That kinda joke doesn't fly here. The rule of thumb here is "be respectful", except to Ray Wert, and then, only when he's not looking.

@ImGonnaGitYouSucka: Must depend heavily on where you're driving it. I'm gonna have to go with Mr. Science here, as Hummers have largely been dismissed as off-road vehicles in my part of the world. If you want to go off-roading in the Rocky Mountains, a Hummer is just going to end up stuck or stranded. The best…

@POLAЯ: POLAЯ, I need you around more often to keep me from getting all head-explody all the time. You can always make me laugh when I'm getting too worked up about trivial bullshit.

Way too biased, but still mildly entertaining.

@theChineyz: Feel free. Don't like our humour, Autoblog's right over there, nobody's going to stop you.

@Michael Kim: I'm sorry, if I had realized I were writing an academic dissertation, I would have been sure to cite my sources in a proper format, using footnotes and quotations. But in fact, they're from memory, so my "numbers" could be completely wrong, as evidenced by the "something like". The point is what matters,…

@mr_dude: Sadly, they don't sell any of those in America either.

@mr_dude: RTFC and GAFSOH.

Absolutely awesome. I don't care if you hate it when I call them rat rods, that's how I think of them, and I absolutely adore them. And that gearshift is the greatest thing ever. A mechanical version of the new JaguarDrive Selector! How awesome is that?

@POLAЯ: So, shiny side DOWN is appropriate in this instance?

@Elhigh: Fuck it, get a run at it, it'll just add more character.

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: I believe it was the '88 - '91 Chevy Blazer with the manual transmission that required you to lift the body off the frame by a few inches to replace the clutch. But don't worry, it's only by a few inches. Seriously, the body off the frame?? Really? Someone didn't foresee this being a…

Congratulations, Mr. Sarockin! You remain one of my personal favourite commenters, so I'm always glad when you win the coveted award.

@kumbayacars: I'd take a G8 GT and about $10,000 in upgrades. (It's my only option, as the GXP isn't available up here.)

@engineerd has lost the funny: I'm not even sure that it's a poster child for model bloat so much as... really it's just a lardass. The last Camaro was a lardass too, but at least it didn't look like it as much as this one does. It just looks bloated and overweight. Whether it actually IS or not is almost irrelevant,…

@engineerd has lost the funny: I couldn't agree more. And hell, I'm not an engineer at all. I could sit for hours crawling over and under and around one of these, looking at every detail. I mean, come on. Things that we take for granted today, they had to individually find a way to problem-solve. Things like, say,…

proving that the Camaro is no longer just a redneck's play thing and more a precisely-guided patriot missile.

@engineerd has lost the funny: It pains me when I start agreeing with you conservative types, but in this case, you're right. Vehicular contributions are practically insignificant in the global picture of CO2 emissions, and it's a pet peeve that it's the main thing that we're harping on about cleaning up to "save the…

@triffid98: You make a good point. I will climb down from my clocktower and stop pegging off soccer moms for taking away my Sportwagons... and start pegging off politicians instead.