@reefer: Hahaha, I didn't notice his email. Not so cryptic, but perhaps appropriate for a plumber - "does it look like I give a fuck".

@Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: It once snowed in Ohio to the same degree. My friend and I invented a game where I would drive and he would operate the handbrake in my '88 Tempo for faux rally fun. Clipped a few snow barriers.

They see me rollin'

@BigEngineSmallCar: Lots of people have cars that shit themselves. They're called _____ (insert favorite derided make here)

These things are pretty neat. I got to see one up close when I and my bike hitched a ride to a track day. I appreciated the trick rear doors.

@ozyran: Depends on how much he reads - I wouldn't be surprised if the Harry Potter series had it's share of ten dollar words. Reading pumped up my vocabulary and writing comprehension to quite a degree.

... Mr. Plow.

@ozyran: Really? When I was twelve I was beginning to obsess about stats in the same way this person's giant chart of horsepower displays. I think what we're seeing here is a combo of:

@Jo Schmo: I have found that most arguments break down to about the level 12 year old boys would be at, anyway.

@CJinSD: I should have qualified my statement with 'now'; my inference was that hatchbacks were expressly the domain of cheap transport 30 years ago, but thanks to the advent of high gas prices, advanced materials use and engineering, that is no longer always the case.

@long_live_the_E36: Americans are very fond of trying to be something we are not.

@Ash78, cube farmer: SILENCE! I need the extra seats for the kids, and groceries, and my around town errands! But it has to be a truck, because I AM A TOUGH PERSON! AND I LIKE TO SIT UP HIGH AND SEE THINGS!

@J-a-z: Everyone (Americans over 40) know that sedans are *always* nicer than hatchbacks, which are cheap.

@KVHnik: More sedans means cheaper per volume; also the sedan I think is the only version with a super-base 'S' form, which matters because there's still a lot of buyers (and rental car agencies) looking for the cheapest possible transportation that still has a trunk.

~400-1000lbs: Engineer a performance car without regards to modern safety standards, requiring drivers to sign a waiver understanding as much. A car made with today's materials and engineering but without any provisions for crumple zones or pedestrian safety would be hella light.

@Rust-MyEnemy: This sometimes happens with performance sport bikes and their riders. Switch to Marchenesi magnesium rims, save a few pounds. Doesn't matter a lot when you're a 6'1" 220lb giant. (As compared to motorcycle racing jockeys, anyway.)

@Archie-Tekt: I still have my RiceCop ticketbook I bought from them.

@XanderCrews: Car stopped, off the roadway: yes

@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: My own 'california person on phone' story: at Whole Foods during lunch rush, in the hot foods self serve area, a (Isreali? east European?) woman in fashionable clothes is talking into a blackberry with one hand and scooping chicken breasts and wings into a container with the other, but…

@Thorax707: Tens of thousands of imps have experienced 'plasma burn-in' at the business end of my plasma gun in DOOM. Pew pew.