My dad sold the old ranger he picked up for use when he was building our house. We bought it from the third or fourth owner. It wasn't the nicest truck ever, but it did the job reliably, and there is a place for a small, inexpensive work truck that's not loaded down with expensive extra features. Those Rangers are…

Well, if their old truck kicked the bucket, then they'll need a new one. Especially if they own their own business (and I know a few people that do, even though I don't exactly hang out with groups of construction workers or landscapers) there are tax advantages to owning a new vehicle and depreciating it over the…

Even real jalops that happen to own a contracting, construction, or landscaping business? I'm not one of them, but a big part of the appeal of small trucks like this is to blue collar folks and construction or landscape oriented professions that don't need or can't afford a full sized pickup.

It is unclear if these Chinese Porsches will be for the Chinese market only.

I want one too, but they'll never build it, stupid crash regulations.

For $11,140 shipped, you can prove to your clients how much you value style over floor space by plopping this ~1/4 of an Italian supercar in your office.

That's the sort of thing it should be used for. The people complaining about the gas mileage because they only use it to go to and from the mall and grocery store can go to hell, that's not what this vehicle was made to do. Hell, 20mpg on the highway is better than what I was expecting. A buddy of mine has one of…

Buy now or forever hold your peace!

Oooooo Nooooooo! It doesn't get 40 mpg! That's a problem!

I've heard stories from fellow auto writers pressing Toyota about what to do about the FJ Cruiser's gas numbers and they've always dodged the question. Which means they weren't planning to do anything at all. That said, now that we no longer have the FJ Cruiser or the Honda Element, the "fun truck" market is…

I share Chris Woodyard's bemusement at this news, especially since no one ever reads that warning anyways.

Again, no narcotics were found. And as the TV station reports, there were several problems with the warrant, including the fact that it was not valid in the county where the searches were performed and that it expired three hours before the procedures began.

Of all his ventures he said: "Whatever money I lost, it was always mine. And in the end, I've come out way ahead.

The greater cause? Poor management, in this reporter's eyes. After losing his deputy, Nissan Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn now has to face the company's myriad problems alone.

At the point I'd buy an Icon, I'd already have a 911 in my garage or, more likely, a Cayman with substantial modifications.

So again: Can Icon sustain their business model?

They don't write off the loss, they apply the lessons learned on their flagship cars to their lower end models. That's the way it's happened with pretty much every major development in car technology for decades. Things like ABS systems get implemented on the most expensive models and refined and, as more of those…

Then you wouldn't understand how inane that question is, in addition to being unqualified and thus vague.

People keep focusing on how much VW loses on each one sold vs the production costs, as if VW/Audi/Porsche/Bentley learned absolutely nothing from the R&D of the car that could be applied across multiple lines of their portfolio. It's like focusing only on how much revenue the American space program produces and…

What are you? A freshman in business school or something?