#2 is pretty much spot on. Even if I bought the $26k car I want, I'd be paying over 2500+ on insurance in metro detroit area as a 27 year old engineer. That, and most of the "Generation Y" market is, and never will be buyers. They.don't.have.any.money.

While this is a thinly veiled post self-promoting that you have a 500k+ Beetle for gear-head cred, I kind of chuckle now that the internet knows that your mom Silvia drives a Passat around Greensboro NC.

Brakes and Tires. Before any power adders, best make sure you can plant an unbelted and inattentive passenger right into the dash. Confidence is the best performance enhancer.

Agreed. I'm only satisfied if I Hand wash my car on my own. Manually.

I feel bad for the nurse that got left holding the bag.

Nah, my cat loves drives. Stands on the dash kind of like that, to boot.

Voisin C-25

i see what you did there

instant 'peoples-choice' contender at any lemons event.

Sounds like Jalopnik staff hate them sour grapes.

Don't know if wrong SEC on purpose, or just really lazy.

Agreed.

#cotd

NP. FC Corvair Rampsides/Vans are an absolute blast to drive.

Tesla. The 'car company' doesn't necessarily deserve the hate it receives, but Musk is a horse's ass.

Even with the stock-car events, the 'invitational' status of it was awesome. If you get a chance to talk to even the european and aussie open-wheel racers that participated, it was basically like a vacation/summer-camp activity.

Not describing the process of making plastic panels, it's etching the steel dies that do the pressing. Die-making in general is a complex, manual-labor intensive process.

It's been said before, but it's always a question of dollars. "If you build it, they will come" doesn't get states/cities/counties to build a better transit infrastructure. Most officials look at it as a "Why invest dollars in a system no-one uses now?" instead of realizing that it needs to become practical *before*…