This is an estate, or as we call them in the US a station wagon. A shooting brake has only two doors. I call your bullsh*t.

This is how farming accidents happen.

I have to agree. If you look at the statistics in 1980 there were less than 500,000 people in jail in America now it's 2,500,000 thanks to all out "get tough" policies and mandatory sentencing laws. We incarcerate a higher percentage of our population than any other country in world. Crash a Corvette, go to jail,…

How about the P51 D Mustang?

The Riviera shows a lot more attention to detail, cleaner lines, and no use of that crappy fake wood on the Ambassador. The Riviera wins IMHO.

It's a great idea as long there isn't much wind the day of the race.

all you need is a sheet of 1/4 inch plywood and some carpentry skills.

It's big, ugly and it can only be called a coupe if it has two doors. Who ever came up with this four door coupe idea should be shot.

1.) Since when is 85mph insanely fast?

How about landing after a wing falls off?

I couldn't find the clip, but how about the Truckster jump from National Lampoon's Vacation? At the time it took the record for the longest movie stunt jump.

What I find odd is how the guys filming this event find someone getting shot at amusing.

Low speeds, tight narrow track, minibikes, more comical than horrifying.

For years now companies have been offering ways of turning unused solar power during daylight hours into hydrogen to be used as clean energy during the night time. It's all energy storage as you say.

Yeah I thought about that, you're taking the carbon out of the atmosphere, combining it with hydrogen from splitting the oxygen bond from water, then burning it and putting the same carbon back in atmosphere. Why not just use the hydrogen and run a fuel cell?

I saw this story on BBC and it looked doable, but how much power do you have to expend per gallon of gas? My guess is it's still cheaper to pump it out the ground and refine it.

I wont buy an electric vehicle till we can buy Hydrogen fuel cell powered cars and there is a decent Hydrogen infrastructure set up (not in my lifetime).

I use to commute from my coastal home in Northern California 200 miles to the San Francisco Bay area every week for work. I would drive either my BMW 2002 (I sold that on this year) or my Fiat Spider (more of a summer car) now I've moved to the bay area and my commutes are much shorter and not nearly as much fun.

The Galaxy 500 had no such problems. Those things were tanks dressed up to look like cars.

I agree, I was just making the point that if there's a market for the Metro then there's probably a market for the Nano. It looks more practical than the smart for 2.