The current rovers' lifespans include time spent in hibernation during Martian winter, when there's not enough sunlight to power their instruments. This critter can go year 'round.

Even when he's a character played by some other dude, Steve McQueen is cooler than you.

Now that the Element is dead, a compact hauler like this would find an audience in a snap.

2011-2008 = 3 years, not 4.

Watch out: life in Faslane will surely make you lose your mind.

Oh, that glorious age when Phil Hartman was alive and Victoria Jackson wasn't crazy!

@AceGT: because aerodynamic considerations tend to make them all converge on a common solution, just as hydrodynamic considerations made fish and whales converge on similar shapes.

Pronounced MEH-gah-CIH-tee or meh-GAS-ih-tee?

@BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ: Sí, se puede

In 1994, I learned to drive in one of these, with my mom riding shotgun, in an platted but unbuilt subdivision near our house. Also: those vinyl seats could seriously burn a thigh wearing short '80s style shorts.

I got a hat tip! I shall put it on a lanyard and hang it from my rear view mirror.

It looks like they're bound and determined to merge with someone. Eventually, though, I suppose all three could merge, and we'd have to pick a name that plays off what they share in common. You know what that means: American Motors is back!