@TechnoDestructo: Because not everyone wants to keep that truck for the many years and hundreds of thousands of miles it can take for the diesel option to pay for itself.

@B16CXHatch: Form following function. It wasn't all that long ago that a 250 HP diesel pickup was something special, and now we're talking about numbers closer to 400 HP. Also the new engines reach their lower emissions partly from using a larger amount of exhaust gas recirculation, and the EGR system is typically…

@kburgs88: [www.fptmultiair.com]

One of these bad boys. When I was about 12.

And for those of us wondering "just what was this 2.3L Tempo engine anyway": it's a derivative of the 200ci Ford straight-6, called the "HSC" for its high swirl combustion chamber design, or "HSO" for "Higher Specific Output" when Ford found another few HP for certain applications.

@JC Whitless: Where does a guy have to go to find so many nice MN12 T-birds in the same place? (The Fire Lane striping has me thinking it's Texas.)

@87CapriceEstate: International Eagle 9800 cabover.

@Will Wright: $3/gallon is actually what the DEF should be costing. Now that the 2010-compliant heavy trucks are going into the wild we'll see the other prices fall more in line with what GM's charging, because pretty soon you'll be able to get it from a bulk pump at most any truck stop.

@Straight6er: It bothers me too. Also, 5.3 liters seems awfully small. (PickupTrucks.com has it at 5.3 gallons, which seems more likely... 5.3 liters would mean DEF refills every 1000 miles or so.)

One of my college roommates had an '86 Shelby Charger, in black and silver. It was a fun little car, he got great gas mileage with it when he had an internship 40 miles from our college town, but it did have a habit for breaking things. One time his shift linkage went out and we towed it to the shop with a chain…

@Dustin-The-Wind: Next time you walk by a semi at a truck stop or see one running bobtail down the freeway, look at the rear axle suspension. Odds are you aren't going to see leaf springs.

@Motor_Yakuza: Especially when set up for rally racing.

@FLB: Sounds about right. The Neon automatics were renowned for sucking the life out of the car, both in the early 3-speed incarnation and the later overdrive 4-speeds.

@7shades: Per the Mini website, their electronic throttle is supposed to be more responsive than a cable and helps them implement their traction control system.

I have to say I like the pick 5 better than pick 10. On the original lists I was picking 6-7 cars I really wanted to see, then using the last few either on cars that other commenters had convinced me were worthy or on cars that I thought would be more interesting than the usual driving-sim fleet. With picking only 5…

I'm nominating the '68 Olds for the last-chance vote. Remember those ads in the late '80's that the Cutlass Supreme or whatever "is not your father's Oldsmobile"? They disappointed me. A black '68 Olds 4-4-2 was my father's Oldsmobile. Plus it disgusts me that this classic car lost by only 40-some votes to some…

To the 43 of you who made the difference between the Civic Type R and the '68 Olds: I am no longer on speaking terms with you.

@FordTuffMcgruff: I love these cars, but I never thought of "sound drivetrain" and "Thunderbird SC" being compatible.

I want to say it's a '92 or '93 from having the later style tail lights. To the general public I suspect this is a crack pipe car, but for this MN12 fan I have no choice but nice price.

@Russter: Alternate version: