0th Gear: Thank god you fixed The Root rerouting (ReRooting?) error.

Well… who do you think typically has the disposable income for an expensive car like that?

I can’t imagine not buying a fantastic, bang for your buck, sports car just because of stereotypes.

Fair but also NO one without proper training should be behind the wheel of a vehicle with 1000 hp. I mean I get it 1,000 hp is “easy” to drive, compared to the so called death traps what were 60's muscle cars, hell they were hitting the mid 400's in hp and considered almost undrivable, granted it was 60's tech and…

To the men and women working at Bowling Green, you are awesome.

Have to give them credit, nearly 200 hp/l and 8000 RPM is badass.

Good lord. Love it or hate it, that appears to be one amazingly designed and engineered vehicle — truly race-car caliber for the streets. Good job, GM.

This car just melted my panties. It is everything I was hoping for and more.

Okay, this one, I’m genuinely impressed. This is serious.

That’s a lot more power than I was expecting honestly. And impressive they preserved the high redline with the turbocharging. I wouldn’t be surprised to see these priced at an MSRP over $200k, but I guess that still makes them a relative bargain compared to the competitors. 

Funny. “Holy shit” was the first thing I said when I read it too. 

Yikes that is hideous! I’ve been a lot of very bland colors that actually seem to be gaining popularity. It looks like someone just dumped some grey into regular car colors to make them more muted and boring, but suburbanites are eating it up.

The car almost blends in with the pavement in that photo. It really is a terrible color.

BIG kudos to Barry Land not buying the (ugh!) Destroyer Grey Challenger. He is exactly right: Glossy Primer Grey, as I call it, is the worst color of all time:

So, basically Honda and Toyota with a sprinkle of Mazda. I’m shocked.

GM can design and build great cars. But they cheap out on their suppliers and make them produce the parts for next to nothing so they can maximize their profits per car and the cars suffer for it. 

Makes me think of one my favorite movies as a kid:

You could throw out all the generalizations and basically just quote the case study on the GM/Toyota joint venture on manufacturing efficiency in the 80's. A lot of that whole failed experiment could be blamed on the UAW just being the UAW, but that doesn’t make the whole exercise any less telling about the cultural…

I apologize in advance, as a sweeping generalization is incoming. The Japanese seem to take more pride in their work and, at least from the outside, are more interested in building a legacy. Americans are known more for flash, make a great presentation, get everyone on board, sell a bunch of whatever and move on to…

it seems Japan can produce automotive value better than we can.