You realize that it's not the foreign company that pays the taxes, but you, don't you?

Don't you get it? Do your neighbor and his brother make campaign contributions? How else would the leaches, CEOs and union bosses, buy up the parasites in DC?

When I think of the American automakers and its workers, I remember this.

DCT is not an automated manual. Fiat's DuaLogic and BMW's SMG are.

Citizen #617-761, go to the nearest FEMA camp pronto for reindoctrination!

I'll buy the best car my money can buy. So, no crap made by overpriced high-school drop-outs, bottom-feeder engineers and overpaid crony-capitalists. Just bona fide, quality cars made by high-school drop-outs, so-so engineers and crony-capitalists.

As long as what comes out of those assembly lines are good products.

The end is nigh when Jalopnik celebrates the prostitution of Maserati as a badge swap with Chrysler. On a truck, no less.

Baloney! Have you ever driven in any 3rd-world country, where the great majority of cars have manual transmissions? You'd be appalled at those drivers.

I became a fan instantly when I drove a Jetta with the DSG. It combined the smoothness of an automatic is slow traffic, and allowed me the control that only a mechanical link between the wheels and the engine provide.

Why, Christine, of course!

While Ford gives us the Focus and the Fiesta from Europe, instead of giving us the Astra and the Corsa, GM gives us only the Aveo from Korea. Heck, even VW gives us third-world versions of the Jetta and Passat! Is it what America has come down to, a third-world country?

What is worse than when an Alfa Romeo is a rebadged Fiat? When it's a rebadged Chrysler.

Well, testing for the worst situation is perhaps the best test. From it we learn that the said cupholders can still do their job then.

Ja vohl, herr commandant!

Since I have a single TV, it costs me $1 per month. That's about what the AC costs me every 3 minutes! I'd rather deal with bigger lower-hanging fruit.

As if it weren't enough to pander to Big Corn, which has dictated what sugar we can import thanks to its dreaded corn syrup, it now dictates that we burn food in engines. Mind you, the amount of corn required to make 1gal of ethanol (19lbs) can feed a person for a fortnight. And the Big Corn lobby is lavished with…

What I learned 8 years ago when negotiating the price on an used car was that, after sticking to my budget for a while, I lamented that perhaps that car was too expensive for me, thanked the salesman for his time and walked away. He came after me in the parking lot to agree to my terms.

The Jersey Shore version?

I think that the Brabham BT46 already had that.