C-ville's kinda unique, if only because U.Va. is located there. Interesting mix of old-money horse lovers, occasionally obnoxious students (particularly in the Rugby Road vicinity), and more than a few cray-cray townies.

I hate to disagree (in part), but the Bangled-up-something-awful Z4 showed up in one of the later "Hire" clips.

"Inspired" is a generous term. "Luc Besson blatantly ripped off the concept" works better. Suave Englishman + fast German car + enigmatic passenger = film franchise!

LTS has more problems as a name than I can count. For starters, it wasn't that long ago that Ford's mainstream big sedan — eventually rechristened as the now-departed Crown Victoria — was called the LTD, which is way too close to LTS for comfort. Then there's the fact that the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban have an LTZ trim…

The current model? Texas used to use both Mustang 5.0s and flat-nosed Camaros to run as DPS cars. They were discontinued about 10 years ago. Now's it's mostly Chargers.

How on earth is "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" not on this list???

NB: It's an Si (little i), not SI, a la BMW then and now; the little "i" meant the engine was fuel-injected, back at a time when it was still a relatively new introduction to Honda engines. IIRC the base-level Preludes and CRXs of the era did not have fuel-injected engines.

My second car was an '87 Prelude Si. LOVED IT. (Well, except for the time I hydroplaned it into a guard rail during a sudden thunderstorm, after I failed to observe that the front tires were nearly bald. Oh, the days before ABS and traction control. Whee!) Hell, even my *mom* loved it - she'd never really driven a…

Agreed. I also can't cheer someone who misspells "mentally deficient" as Shakespearean.

I'm sorry, but the Z8 does NOT belong on this list. Americans didn't "hate" it; rather, the people who could afford its $130K price tag mostly preferred flashier cars like Ferraris and Lambos. Even a cursory look at Z8 resale values — ones in good condition sell for nearly as much as they cost new — should disprove…

For the purposes of this list, I assume we're excluding cars that can only exist in the world of science fiction? Otherwise, a certain flux capacitor-powered flying DeLorean OWNS it. Any and all Transformers vehicles come in second.

I can only assume you're well under 40. I'm right at that point and remember the show vividly. That said, the *actual* greatest '80s TV show you didn't know existed is called "Manimal."

Crack pipe, but only because it's solidly trumped by the comparably priced 300C SRT8 on every level. The 300 combines the best of Benz and Fiat engineering, mated to a package slick inside and out. There's also the fact that most people will mistake it for a garden-variety rental-car Impala (whereas there aren't all…

I know the pictures are pretty, but you'll find the answer twice in the article, including the third sentence.

Completely agree. I've been to race-car driving school and was specifically advised NOT to drive an airbag-equipped vehicle with arms at 10 & 2 or 9 & 3; more like 8 & 4 unless you like the idea of your arms and hands being whipped straight into your face in the event of a head-on.

Again, "booking engine" is a nebulous term. I could use ITA Software's flight-planner tool — the same one travel agents use (and now ostensibly owned by Google, but not much changed since acquisition) — and book the same ridic itinerary I first mentioned.

This is kind of a trick question. Nearly every domestic airline releases last-second weekend fares, bookable less than a day in advance, that are rarely more than $300 r/t. I'd limit the criteria to weekday bookings on Mondays and Fridays, the heaviest travel days.

Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this entire story. If you *really* wanted to do so, you could construct an itinerary between, say, Dallas and Houston — only 250 miles apart — involving a nearly infinite number of connections and costing six or seven figures.

Without a doubt. The Fisker's basic problem is the battery. I would think 20 years from now we'd be able to power this bitch with something the size of a pair of AAs.

The Mexican-built EA888 Gen 3 turbo will start rolling out this year in Beetle Turbo and Jetta GLI models this year, offering 210 horsepower and 207 lb-ft of torque, which is a 10 horsepower increase over the outgoing Gen 2 engine.