So, on the outside it looks a LOT like a Lambo Miura, but to your insurance company it's a 25 year old beater?

@sudo rm -rf /: Were that a real Big Bad Wolf of a problem, nobody anywhere would offer free open wifi - the liabilities would be off the scale.

@Mikekearn has an overly long username: Following the advice of Bruce Schneier as well as several other experts in the field, the converse is far more likely.

Gee, I must be the oddball here. I typically leave my wifi unlocked and open if a neighbor (I live in a townhouse community) needs it.

Makes all the remaining 240s that much more rare, and thus more valuable.

@lil red: Ford realized some benefit, but GM and Chrysler - in the throes of bankruptcy at the time - didn't get dick.

@lil red: No, we didn't have to have The Government-Sponsored Rush For Hyundai Sales, either because of Bush's catastrophic malfeasance or because of Obama's serial uselessness.

@Jackie: *laughs* You & me both. And... the previous season, I figured out what they were on about with all the talk of "badgers."

@Jackie: Nope, that's what Clarkson said :)

@Psiu! Puxa!: Yes, but no:

@adeft: $25 to rip a few shots down the strip on a Saturday night? Either the owner is nuts, or - much more likely - his insurance company is.

@raggedtoad: Autocross is for people who want to turn left AND right, and develop skills they'll use every day to improve their own driving - to make the roads a better (read: safer AND more fun) place to be.

II da' X-treem, y'allz.

How dare anyone use the term "bro" in anything involving Senna. Or Mansell.

Two observations:

@FiXXXerX: Race and sex doesn't matter, but personality does. I'm the last guy to argue for quotas, because quotas are bullshit - but I have to wonder, did the producers ever THINK about anyone who wasn't a white male, 20's to 30-ish, with no charisma whatsoever?

@OM617.950: When Adam Carolla backed out, the producers were left with a dilemma: Who can we find to take the most important role in our show — that of the annoying shithead who is so utterly useless, so impossibly fucking awful to watch, it will make millions of people take sledgehammers to their televisions, and…

I will not compare this show to the original Top Gear.

@M103: +1

@EChid: The goal was to emulate all of the superficial aspects of TG UK (i.e., three white guys, Stig in white suit, Star in a.. uhh... "small car," etc) while bringing nothing much in the way of "new and uniquely American" to the show.