Exactly. Never mind that the cars are shite, they're rife with false advertising and can't live up to their claims. The flywheel hybrids I like and prove once again that race cars and enthusiast cars will take over and push technology forward screaming and kicking. Regular consumer products will continue to be…

I wonder what the 12 cars would have been if the article was for Wired.

I wish everyone would stfu about the Metro XFI, it's like my Eleanor... my guess is a clean one would go on ebay for 6k+ now with all hype.

Stupid Alaskans. What's suspicious about religious fundamentalists praying in a middle eastern language with some kind of device strapped to their foreheads? Don't they realize that mexican security would have carefully screened them for anything dangerous? What a bunch of insensitive red-necks.

And it raced against two strokes... and won.

I think between this guy and Blagojevich, we can declare the missing link found.

They have a very modern (and very old) love of aesthetics and balance. They also celebrate restraint and stoicism. I wouldn't want to live there (since I'm an agorophobic libertarian) but I very much appreciate those aspects of their culture.

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@Motor_Yakuza: I don't have an answer save that it definitely WON'T be Ford. They've sworn a blood oath to never let an AWD turbo compact or midsize touch these shores. Even if they had to stuff an SHO drivetrain under a focus body to save humanity from an alien invasion, they'd put up welcome signs in the alien's…

I'm not asking for Freakonomics but everyone that works in the OE and aftermarket eats sleeps and breathes production figures. Do they make 8, 8,000 or 80,000 evos a year? If I had a media card, I'd at least call Mitsu PR and ask.

This article, like every article ever written by an automotive journalist, completely ignores the only metric car companies live and die by. Units sold. When you only sell 12 NSXs in a year, then divide the program's fixed costs over each unit, it was probably the most expensive car on earth when it died.

I posted it earlier in a reply ... e100 cabover with a roots blower.

YES! Van for the win. Vanagon for punk/folk/artsy BS though. E150 or 100 cabover= 100%metal.

I'm going to go with the measly 300hp (WTF?) output as the v12's achilles heel.

It's all over the web, look up Yannick Sire, the guy who built it or you can go here:

I'll just leave this here

On behalf of the entire MMA-fan/Brommunity, manly tears are being shed... mostly for the hooters but still, a round of Jager for my broskis. See you down at BW3s when you get out on probation.

Gas has a ceiling with natural gas, solar, wind, ethanol, etc. However Freakusaurus is right in my opinion. The less gas we buy the higher the cost of production but the big factor is that one way or another the oil companies are going to get the same number of dollars out of the average american's monthly income for…

The more I look at it the more problems I see. The tire "bulges' on the fender not only look non-functional but add mass to the front end, hence all the Tiburon comments. The distance from the top of the lip to the hood line should be tightened up, the consumer in this case WANTS a light (and light looking car).

Too late toyota, I already built my own shark car.