... I... I admit, I was expecting the car to be six figures based on the nameplate alone.

It is interesting that no one is really complaining that the K900 ad failed to mention the 60k price either. I think the showdown in the lease market between the K900 and the Ghibli is going to be an interesting one.

And they do that by telling you to buy a Jeep, otherwise you won't be free.

Very corporate and "safe". Regardless, the "F" needed more attention. Takes up too much visual space relative to the other letters, and I would have made its "arm" line up with the center of the C (and possibly match the strong angle of the A).

Yeah, and this bet paid off, big time. For the relatively low engineering costs, they put out a Porsche that can be bought as the family's second car, not the third-garage weekend-car. This changed things immensely for Porsche. The Cayenne - and Panamera now - subsidize those three-dozen 911 variations that Porsche…

Agreed, though, to be fair, there was a very strong market case for the Cayenne... The Luxury SUV market was in full boom when it first came out.

I was under the impression that these were selling fairly well. I see them often enough on the roads at least

For 1958, AMC dropped their big-car Nash and Hudson marques as sales in those lines was dying. Instead, they decided to "sink or swim with the Rambler" compacts from 1958-on. This was a last-ditch effort to save a deeply troubled American Motors.

Like it or not, the Prius.

A lot of R&D, a lot of money... a lot to lose.

Why would they quit the VSport?

Why does it being a V6 make you run away?

Except that the V6 produces the same amount of power as the V8 in the S6, and that starts at 73.

They continue making European shaming cars, price them the same as the Germans, and let people like you and I spread the word.

Doesn't matter how good this car is, people will still say "LOL TOO EXPENSIVE COMPARED TO GLORIOUS GOD BUILT GERMANS K THX L8R"

Notes on Tesla's superchargers: The maps I was shown at the dealer recently indicated that you can only go cross country via a very specific route at this point. There are superchargers along I-80 from the midwest but only until you reach partway through Wyoming, so you could not go, say, from Chicago to the Bay…

The nearest Supercharger station is 269 miles away through the mountains, so making it all the way might be pushing it. And according to their map, it won't be until the end of 2015 before they open a closer one (100 miles away). They're making progress, but I'm still years away from considering a full EV (thank god…

Neutral- Volvo please let me help you make a commercial. I already have the script written! (I wrote this on Oppo awhile back, re-post for your enjoyment)

I didn't realize the spark started at $12k that is a seriously good point there.

The GM Global Small Vehicle platform is just that — a global GM platform, from GM, an American company. The current Spark was styled in the USA (the early Daewoo, as you noted was styled by Giugiaro); MOST of the engineering and development happened in Korea. That makes it a American-Korean car or Korean-American,…