I respectfully and completely disagree with this. For one, the car/woman analogy doesn't work for me. I would never want a car as complicated as my wife, and I'd never want a wife as simple as a car.

I'm sort of impressed. Imagine if all that effort were spent doing something the right way. This person needs the right tools and some instruction but could probably do really good work.

The EPA came up with the MPGe standard. They run the car through their test course and see how much fuel and electricity it uses. They figure 33.7 kWh = 1 gal. gasoline.

Some say they've already built one. They need 49 more to tie Preston Tucker.

On the one hand, a 10.4 second 1/4 mile is fast. On the other hand, you could get much lower ETs for much less money.

I realize that those buttons had a purpose for a very short period of time. The person I quoted didn't understand that and extrapolated that misunderstanding to believe that turbo was just a word that people used to mean fast and not an actual mechanical device.

I hear this all the time along with "Cars were better back in the old days when they were made of metal, not like these plastic ones we have now."

"Turbos aren't real thing. My computer had a turbo button on it and it didn't do anything."

This logo is from an ad on the Detroit News page. If you don't understand why I think this is funny, read "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart. Even if you do understand, read the book. It's great.

"The next generation Renault Clio supermini will be 'dramatic.'" It will be inspired by France's favorite form of drama: pantomime. Announcing the Renault Clio Marcel Marceau Edition! It will have black and white horizontal stripes and a rooftop luggage carrier in the shape of a giant clown hat.

"The next generation Renault Clio supermini will be 'dramatic.'" It will be inspired by France's favorite form of drama: pantomime. Announcing the Renault Clio Marcel Marceau Edition! It will have black and white horizontal stripes and a rooftop luggage carrier in the shape of a giant beret.

$300k estimated for the Alfa 4C? That doesn’t seem right. If it’s built by Dallara (as it’s rumored to be) then I don’t see why it should cost much more than the X-Bow.

My sister-in-law had a Swift with the triple and a manual trans. If I remember correctly she put over 200k miles on it. I drove it once and it wasn't unbearably slow. Probably as fast as a diesel golf. $1,200 would be a nice price for that car, but this one with the slush box and drop top is cracked.

Wouldn't you think that if they were terrorists they would be a bit more discreet and try to blend in with everybody else?

Steve McQueen and I, among others, also disagree.

I was thinking Scirocco

I wasn't hard-pressed. Here's one for $38, LEDs included.

Is this going to be built by Dallara like the X-Bow? Or am I mixing up my rumors?

I think graverobber put this one up just for the pleasure of seeing it go down in CNC machined billet flames.

Why does the back mimic the front? No one wants an ass for a face and no one wants a face for an ass.