The fact still remains that if someone wants to work in the auto industry, greater Detroit is still the place to be. Of course, provided that it's not as an assembly line worker, but as a white collar professional, things shouldn't be that bad.

Lancia Thema 8.32?

Imagine yourself living in Europe and this Cadillac comes along costing the same as an Audi A4 or BMW 3. Do you understand now why Cadillac flops all over the world?

Why pretend to race at all? That's NASCAR at its best!

Apparently it offers the choice of a 5-speed manual or a classic automatic with toque-converter instead of the DuaLogic transmission. It seems that the new dual-clutch transmission is going to be used only by Alfa Romeo for now.

I don't know about the Jeep reference, but the Italian press has reported that it'd be based on the 300's platform.

Ford Del Rey '82

I checked a 500 at lunch time at a new Fiat dealer in town.

Why, of course! The academic-mediatic-military industrial complex would hate if anyone would think outside the unidimensional Bush-Obama axis of acceptable political views that keeps their gravy-train going.

For the fad that finished with any notion of motoring from a generation of Americans.

You mean the Palestinian terrorists? What difference does it make? Both, they and Israelis, are terrorist states and neither is justified in being a terrorist state just because the other is.

Of course it was socialism! And all that it accomplished was to make motorcycles more expensive for everyone, including Harley Davidsons.

Second only to the US, which sponsored the tyrants in Egypt and in Tunisia. But it holds the crown of all terrorist states: Israel, which doesn't hesitate to bomb family homes to smithereens.

The Volt is not so much the fruit of socialistic machinations as of marketing. The lay press is chock-full of tear-eyed reports of this car that will bring back from extinction a dodo bird for every mile that it's driven. The press that the Volt gets are all for the wrong reasons: none of them automotive. But this…

#2: that's what usually happens when a company lends money to the buyers of its products. Where did I hear this before?...

The Yugo is dead. Long live the Nano!

Ultra-hardcore 911 may be suited for wall posters in teenagers' bedrooms. However, back to the real world, I miss when a 911 was an elegant GT.

Here's the driver.