Amen. Hitting the loud pedal as soon as you pass the GW Parkway, screaming across the Potomac, then exiting off of 495 onto the Clara Barton like you're entering the Bat Cave was always how I celebrated leaving that festering cyst of a state.

I was totally on board with this until you uttered the word "healthy".

Chicks? A Miata? Don't they know?

Cool, I like rockets. :-P

- Pay cash for a cheap old pickup for a basic high school ride from a BY/PH dealer.

Regarding in-vehicle infotainment... a funny man once wrote

Yup. Revenue must grow to keep stockholders happy.

Cash for clunkers may have affected the used market larger SUVs and trucks.

The scale keeps going up. I recently received my credit score through a home loan application and I believe the highest is now ~820.

Not when you go #2

Someone around here has a notchback VW (which is awesome) painted in a color like this, but darker. It looks black until you are right up next to it and looking at a spot the sun is hitting, then it reveals the cherry. It's beautiful

Or cocaine!

I guess Marvel didn't opt for the super-servers. The site is at a dead halt.

So happy someone beat me too this. I was busy over at io9.

Meanwhile.......

A small RWD platform that needs more volume to be feasible... Didnt Nissan/Datsun used to make some awesome micro trucks back in the day?? PROBLEM SOLVED

How about a Ranger SVT with the TT V6 SHO engine? Id love for a crazy little mini-truck

More of a car based ute? Two door with a long bed or 4 door with a short bed. Optional AWD.

I loved my old '98 S10, moon roof - it's only option. Easily the most spartan vehicle and most reliable and loved sunny summer day deathbox I ever owned. Somehow managed to fit 12" subs behind that bench seat, they sounded like ass but I was 16 so as long as they generated obnoxious levels of noise it was all good.