.@DonLuc:The current snouts on the Super Duties and vans are hideous. Here's hoping they clean that up.

Wouldn't it be better to have the Cayenne pushing up daisies?

Somebody in Washington, NJ, a few miles from me, has a couple of very evil-looking examples of this car, right down to the color. I think one is a donor to the other. I hope he gets it done.

I see what he was trying to do now. I still don't understand why.

Pea, meet Pod.

@golferal - has no need for a snarky screen name: Round lights or vertical, round or vertical? Right then, we'll do both!

@Major Liverfailure: 30 minutes...same recovery time I had when the torque converter would do its thing. Fortunately, once the mechanic figured it out, he solved it by yanking a plug under the hood to disable whatever it is that wasn't functioning. That bought me another 50K or so.

@Major Liverfailure: Ooh, another recovering Calais owner. Did yours develop the torque converter problem that caused it to get stuck in third gear?

When I first got the 626, we called it "Stitch" after the Disney character (Experiment 626, for the uninitiated), but that didn't last.

For a collector/investor, sure. If you have that kind of money to play with, this is just another bet that may pay off, or not. There are two of these sitting in a driveway maybe a half mile from my office.

This Earth Day, Hummer invites you to bring some home on your windshield.

Lion 1 to Lion 2: "Yeah, that's a 245/75 16..."

@Jo Schmo, the man formerly known as Ash76: Lion 2 to Lion 1: Wait, lemme flatten the spare.

And that, boys and girls, is why you keep your hands and feet inside the bus at all times.

This is a rare Chinese design in that the front doesn't look like some demented Mr. Potato Head. Pretty nice, really.

@WilliamG.: +2, from a U.S. perspective.

The more I look, the weirder this gets. Look at the way the side window glass falls away from the roofline toward the rear. And then the roofline ends at the wraparound back window. I hope this doesn't turn out to be Jaguar's Panamera.

@Steve Neill: If you look at the decklid, I don't think so. But it's got some kind of wraparound glass there, which is a little disturbing...like a 1st-gen Saturn or Sable, but less upright.

That back window...I'm reserving judgment here. I just don't see how that's going to work visually from any angle other than this one.

@Novaload Misses Murilee: It was the residential neighborhoods that had the good stuff—like Chimborazo and the Carytown area.