Can you imagine the U.S. military buying a relatively cheap and simple vehicle that gets the job done 98% of the time instead of a hugely expensive and complicated vehicle that gets the job done 99% of the time? Me either.

I was initially quite interested to learn that a rocket fuel company made these. Seems a little less surprising when you learn it was the division that made Sno-Cats.

But when it does appear you won’t be able to get one because your large city doesn’t have an Alfa dealer. Try the ones in Bentonville AR or the Quad Cities.

No tire tracks in the sand. Must have dropped from the sky like the Blues Brothers Nazis.

Subaru 2.5RS. In the pre-WRX days all the car mags waxed poetic about it. I thought it was too heavy to be tossable and the AWD sucked what was left of the pep out of the 165hp boxer.

Funny - my 2002 Altima 2.5S lasted longer in my hands, but ultimately after three years of completely uninspirational driving I traded it for a Mazda 3 hatch.

Plus, he/it’s always going on and on about how all cars today all look the same.

It tread and bogies instead.

I can only imagine what sort of crazy internet ads you must get because of the cookies your browser contains.

I saw a FiST that resembled a red car that had been left in the desert sun for 20 years.

TIE torpedo bomber? Why not a TIE trebuchet or something?

Looks like you just have to watch our for premature actuation.

A star for you! Besides the alloy wheels, I learned stick on a car that looked exactly like the one pictures. Unless that’s not Ascot Grey Metallic. Might be blue, I can’t tell.

“I bet that guy bought a Habanero Red Pearl Civic Si because it was the only unmolested used Si sedan available within 250 miles of his house.”

That was my initial reaction as well. But if I’m reading this correctly the auto stop/start gas saving thing confounds the normal “turn the key and get out before people point and laugh” way of operating.

I’d assume that he was pacing cats

I came across one of these at a track day once. It was . . . not fast.

Europeans drive PT Cruisers?

They shouldn’t have chosen an Odyssey to park it next to. Because I guarantee you the Odyssey can open its rear door just fine with the Tesla parked next to it. Without all of the complication.

Seriously, if it was a level playing field, I still don’t think it would be remotely close for me between the GTI, WRX, and ST.