I value those skills, in general and in particular as applied in racing. If you want to start a robotic drag-race series, go nuts and let me know how it goes. If you want to persist in obtusely missing the point, go nuts and leave me out of it.

Computers can perform pretty much any task better than people; that’s not the point. The point is that there is skill involved, even if those skills aren’t ones that you recognize or value.

Is your response to learning that every sport requires skill to propose removing the element of skill by automating the ‘sport,’ or is there something special going on here? I’m sure Boston Dynamics could build a better skier, or baseball pitcher, or Moto GP rider, but that would be... stupid? Yeah, stupid.

They mostly own Ridgelines.

Watch some fast drag races for the crashes. You’ll see where the skill comes in on every sub-ten-second run that doesn’t involve bent metal.

I know they cost more, but the F-150 diesel averages 22 mpg to the Ram 1500 diesel’s 23 mpg and the Silverado 1500 diesel’s 25 mpg (per Fuelly.com).

LOL.

I should have specified ‘for mass production’ in my query.

Yes. Maybe also with the inline-6 diesel out of the Silverado 1500...

1. Bare metal is cool.

That’s, um... an SUV?

Pontiac Parisienne and all the other GM B-Body wagons, preferably as plug-in hybrids.

Lotus and Toyota collaborated on the first generation Celica Supra, offered in Japan during the years 1978–1981. But not, as far as I know, on the second-generation which remains in my mind one of the best-looking cars ever built.

Um... how about this one-owner DeLorean?!?

In the HEAT?!?

Cool - what make and model?

My mother’s Mazda 929 had the swing vents. They were lovely; the oscillation did a good job of cooling the car without the ‘frozen wrist-and-nipple’ issue common to fixed vents.

I WAS inclined to drift Nice Price based on crash testing, since Euro NCAP gives it 5 stars and 96/93 for adults and children, but a 2012 Nissan Leaf gets a 5-star with 89/83 adult/child. 

If you can actually get one for $20,000, that’s pretty close to cheap.

User name checks out.