For taxes, no.

Hmm. Would a radioactive giant bonsai tree just look like, well, a normal full-size tree? Could it be that the radioactive giant bonsai trees are already here, hiding in plain sight?

I had a 2001 MINI Cooper S which acquired a whole laundry list of TSB fixes which were corrected in subsequent model years. The most fun was the power steering cooling fan which was A) forward facing at the bottom of the engine, B) unprotected by any shroud/grille, and C) on the same circuit as the radiator fan.…

I distinctly recall seeing ads this summer (narrated by Tim Allen) touting the fact that a Le Mans prepped Corvette has less horsepower than a street legal ZR1. They have an official "Team Chevy" facebook presence for the fanboys, a "Corvette Racing" twitter feed, a large "racing" section in their ChevyMall…

"GM must be scrupulous with its finances, and avoid the appearance of frivolous, environmentally-unsound activities like racing, while at the same time it must still — at least surreptitiously — promote its racing activities"

I see a blue Tesla around town here in Burlington VT about once a week. There's also an Audi R8 I've seen a few times. On the rarer/odder end of the spectrum, I saw a black Maybach up here as well. Thing was roughly the same size as Rhode Island, give or take a few miles.

Indeed...

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"Chrysler could rightly be accused of buying lipstick by the pallet for its pigs while Fiat straightens out the product plan over the next few years. But the cars still take up more screen time than the celebrities."

Should be on the list, but because the brilliant baseline which Forbes used was "2011 model year cars road tested by Edmunds", it (among several others) isn't listed since Edmunds hasn't road-tested a C30 since August 2007...

Indeed, with a fair bit of massaging my MGB just cracks 100hp, and it's a hoot....

Indeed, I'd guesstimate that the vast majority of automotive marketing images are photoshopped, ranging from minor (smudge/dust/reflection removal) to moderate (placing vehicle in a different location) to major (substantive changes to the design). It isn't new and it isn't news...

That's not Chicago, it's Geneva. Better chocolate, worse pizza...

I'm inclined to go with the 1916 Cadillac Type 53, which Top Gear pointed out was the first car to use the now-universal control layout we all know and love; Round steering wheel, gear lever and parking brake between the seats, clutch-brake-gas on pedals and in that order, keyed ignition. Out of the higgledy-piggledy…

@Philip Dunlop: Indeed. We've been seeing various iterations of the "high nose" ever since the Tyrrell 019 twenty years ago. The nose on this Ferrari doesn't look too different from last year's Force India or McLaren. Not sure what all the hubbub is about.

@Dr ba jones-was Quattro-luvr 'til he was Gawkered: Kennedy woulda hit that.

@ttyymmnn: Yep, that's Lake Geneva. Somewhere out on the interwebz I saw a whole series of these taken on the same day, with cars, vans, park benches, etc. all similarly entombed. Pretty cool (as a non-owner of the vehicles involved).

Looks a bit like a Zonda mated with a late 90s XKR...

As a C30 owner I encourage the development of anything Shooting-Brakey, and welcome Ferrari for showing up to the party (late).

@Mazarin: I'd take the "stale" old XJ over the new one any day.