I think his idea in the article is spot-on. Sell it to a collector for $$$, get another boss that he won't feel bad about thrashing.

Yes, that is really an accomplishment, and breaking the 10k mark is something special - so I guess that is something it excels at. The only other cars I could find new for less than 10k are 3-doors, and also had the curious mix of 6 airbags and no ABS - but that's a whole different barrel of monkeys.

By definition, a lot of cars ARE mediocre. If they all were excellent, none of them would be excellent. There's not a problem with this, it's just the way the world works.

The Nissan Versa has room for 4 adults, but the ones in back better be short. It gets decent mileage, but not great - I can do 34 mpg in my wife's accord coupe from 2001, and there are a couple new cars that will do better, for not much more money.

I find it odd, or maybe even slightly offensive, that the bottom-of-the-barrel Versa comes with seat-mounted airbags, but no ABS.

It's pretty likely that he's got insurance to cover hail damage - I know that 90% of families I knew when I lived in TX did. You were guaranteed to get at least one good hail a summer, and if you were parked outside, that's a huge chunk of change to hand over to the PDR guy.

If you posed in front of university vehicles, and then sold them to calendars, I GUARANTEE you would catch shit from the licensing department. The posing is irrelevant, it's the selling that is the problem.

This has nothing to do with a bikini. This has everything to do with profiting off of college-owned (and CLEARLY labeled) property, without asking permission.

I don't want to argue against the hot girl in the bikini, but it kinda sounds like she used school property to take pictures for her own personal profit. You have to ask permission to do that, and she didn't.

I was mostly kidding, but I was also being a little bit serious. The tiniest bit of proper engineering would make this tank mostly safe. For instance, compressed natural gas vehicles frequently don't explode. I have yet to hear of a fuel cell car going kaboom. But ferrari fires are so frequent, I'm pretty sure I…

I'd wager $50 that this thing has less chance of burning to the ground in an accident than say, any italian car priced over $80k.

there is not "a" viable biofuel, at least not yet. The proper solution for the next 50-100 years will be a combination of alternative fuels.

Do you really say ess-aitch-oh? I always read it as show, unless it's written as the proper model name, i.e. "Ford Taurus SHO."

That's why there are two awards: one for the car that does the most laps, and one for the car that does the most awesome laps. If you only do 30 laps, but you do it in a rusty Galaxie 500 with a rotary swap, you might just have a shot at winning.

I also don't understand how, since suicide bombers are already willing to kill themselves and any children that might be on the plane, we should expect them to be unwilling to stuff a small child full of explosives?

His first mistake was stopping. Now the commuters know he didn't mean to wag his ass at them.

Fox-body. Really, anything is faster than a miata 0-60, but a 5.0 mustang is probably the fastest way to get to 60mph for less than $750.

I love that show, but my wife gives me hell because of their british-ness. Between the "Oi fink disll do o-right in the classy-fieds," and whatever the hell slang phrases come out of their mouth, it's damn near unintelligible if you don't spend enough time watching british TV.

Don't imagine that you're better than these people just because your terrorists are a little further back in your family tree.

Well, the problem is that you only get a certain amount of energy. The density of ultra capacitors isn't as high as a Li-Ion battery. There's no reason to *wow. submit fail.*