@AutobahnBurner: Cars adapt to their environment, and America, for better or worse, has always been the home of very long, very wide, very straight roads. I find as I age I am prizing precision over power. And getting tangled up in consonance.

@AutobahnBurner: Is it just me or does nearly every tuner now just aim for MONSTER POWER numbers for a good press release?

@FrankGrimes: Makes total sense. I just wonder if this is one of those 'tuned to produce this specific result' cars that don't otherwise perform like this when the cameras are off.

1400hp at the wheels? I assume this feat was accomplished by dialing the boost up from it's normal range, otherwise one could only enjoy this supercar for a couple thousand (hundred?) miles at a time before a new engine is in order.

@IN THE FACE!: Reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons; can't remember which exact one, but Homer drives a luxury car to the bar that has three ignition keys and a ferret/mink seat belt. Same level of ostentatious luxury here.

@GasGuzzler: I wouldn't file it into a 'conspiracy' really, more like 'sad truth of the world' that our enemies aren't conveniently marked and all convene within the borders of one country.

@bmoreDLJ: Whoa, it took me a second to recognize that list as not being satire. Wild!

@aluminum und stoke: Your first paragraph reminds me of the afternoon of September 11th, 2001. I remember thinking "Ugh, even now bombs are being loaded onto a plane to be dropped on some poor goat farmer's head while the real framers of this horrible act smoke a hookah deep inside some OPEC member country."

I thought Murilee's contest was over?

@sharkd: This etymology is excellent.

But... without anything to do, the California Air Resource Board would be dissolved... won't somebody please think of the CARB!?

@Skunky: ... THX1138?

@Pessimippopotamus lost another star at a Gawker blog that he doesn't comment in: Ahh, I did not know this. I concur, then, that some of the lustre is lost if a pedigree can't be obtained. However, sometimes there is great value to be had by buying 'off-brand', as it were.

@Pessimippopotamus lost another star at a Gawker blog that he doesn't comment in: Are you talking about looks exclusively, or purpose? I also think any Zonda looks cartoonish on the street, as they are mostly a race car. But for that application I think they fit well...

@nutbastard: Oh shit oh shit!... dammit, just a taxi. Stupid taxi.

@91GT: Came to say this - way too much gear for a vehicle that needs to be simple. Turbos? Really?

@cobrajoe: SARS! SARS everywhere!

Car has some toe-in issues.

@Eric James Dougherty: I've just seen a Taraus in the wild and geez louise is that a tall car with crazy high belt lines. I'm pretty sure the trunk lid would clear the roof of a Toyota Paseo.

@CABEZAGRANDE: Agreed. Not only is the tail completely flat, the tail lights look like they took 4 of the same lamps and just rotated 2 around.