I feel like Infiniti — at least from the standpoint of design — has the best looking cars of any Japanese brand. Also, Infiniti drivers are less douchy than Acura drivers and not as old or gold-chainy as Lexus drivers. They are just better drivers.

Access to credit is important to automakers because they use it for much of their lending.

Which gets back to the original problem of making an investment. Do you want to invest in a brand that's going to have to spend a lot of their IPO cash trying to figure out how to make more money?

Analysts, meanwhile, have pointed to the potential for exclusive clubs and hotels for the super-rich or Ferrari moving into high-value motorcycles and boats.

i would have bought it myself, were it not for the salvage title. also, i need to read that hagar book first.

If it weren't for the fact that he is very much alive, Herbert Hartge would be rolling in his grave over the 69% Crack Pipe loss suffered by his former ride - the 1998 Hartge 5.0 M Coupe we featured yesterday. That car's price made its unavailability in the U.S. a little less bitter a pill to swallow.

word! go with a 911 and you won't regret it!

holy Fuck! i did not know that??!!

Röhrl also disclosed how much power the new engines will make: about 350 horsepower for the 2.7 and about 430 horsepower for the 3.0. The first is on par with the current car, and the latter is a nice 30 horsepower bump over today's Carrera S. No word on torque yet.

"I said, 'How can that be?'" Roediger said. "'Look at the frame. It's even got rust.' They said that could be faked."

i'm reading this instead of working. i love it but it makes me feel guilty and i keep looking over my shoulder. i'm going to go back and click a bunch of links now. thanks doug!

ferrari has them as standard, at least on the cars i've driven — ff, 458 — and they're perfectly intuitive there: left signal by left thumb, right signal by right thumb. windshield wipers on the wheels as well.

i don't think that's the case for a 911 — the few languishing 997 gts's are those lacking the wart. and heated AND COOLED seats are definitely a must-have as well. finally, i don't think there is any way NOT to get a nav screen in a 911 these days, though i agree with you 100%, it would be so much better without, as…

ps, the turn signals should be located on the steerring wheel like a ferrari.

i thought the same thing when i got my 911 — i want a sport design steering with no damn buttons, because i'm not playing with the radio #likeagirl, i'm man driving my man-tran man-porsche.

one month of real life driving later: i wish i'd gotten the goddam multifunction steering wheel.

ditto on the gt350r. it's an american ferrari — carol shelby would have loved it. i like it better than the new GT. the z/28 is a big, heavy brick that's impossible to see out of — i'd take a base c7 over that any day of the week.

the same engine in the carrera GTS only generates 430 — why would this engine put out more?

it should have 400, like a carrera s sans powerkit, at the very least.

assume this will have it, but any p-car without sport chrono is going to get crushed in the second-hand market. the dash-wart being key.

i guess it depends what you do in your car. if it's only for the track, then why would you need any leather at all? or a radio or nav? but i spend a lot of time in my car, and i want it to be pretty much loaded with everything but the carbon-ceramics.

the blue is an obvious choice — yellow is a crime against good taste.