Hey, it might happen. China's a huge market and they love Buicks, so I can't see why they wouldn't have it for China and the US. Besides, this could make up for the fact that something like the Lamborghini crossover was made for China.

My thoughts exactly. I figure you take this out into the desert or something, you can scratch it up without worrying about it looking bad since it already kinda does. Plus, the cosmetic flaw makes it cheaper, too.

It's baffling really, since Acura released TL SH-AWD with a six-speed in America even though they knew they'd only sell a handful. Keep in mind that this is a North American market exclusive, and they went through the cost of getting a stick for this, in a market wholly averse to them (unless Canada is more…

Frankly, this is the sort of thing that calls for some "eye-for-an-eye" punishment, in my opinion. Anyone ever see that show Bully Beatdown? I'd go for something like that, with some sort of professional fighter publically beating the crap out of him until he's inches from death's door. Oh, and he'd be paying his…

R4: The article reads different to me than was probably intended. While the desired effect was "women engineers make important contributions to vehicle design, the things they stress say to me "women engineers make boring mid-size sedan."

Some of those arguments against the Fusion are pretty weak, too. Direct injection causing problems with possible excessive carbon buildup on the valves? Sounds to me like the half-baked kind of defense of someone who only bought a Camry since it has wheels, an engine, a lot of other people have them, and it's…

I doubt it, but if you wanted ease of maintenance, you probably wouldn't buy a German luxury car in the first place, am I right?

Why is this even necessary? They have something to control unintended acceleration in all cars already, IT'S CALLED EFFING NEUTRAL!

It was an improperly fitted floor mat, not really a problem with the throttle. However, they had time to call 911, a call which lasted for about thirty seconds, if I recall, and in that amount of time didn't think to put the damn car in neutral? And wasn't the driver a CHP officer? What do you think is more…

A fuckton is about 2000 fuckloads, a fuckload being 3 shitloads, made up of 12 assloads, which vary from person to person but is around 38lbs. But that's the US fuckton. The metric fuckton is only 1000 fuckloads, but the fuckload is 10 shitloads of 10 assloads, or 20kg. Damn metric system.

True, but relying on quirkiness and unconventional, yet clever, engineering can only get you so far. And unconventionality really won't do you many favors when trying to sell in really any market, except for possibly France (the country that gave the world the DS and Avantime can't really be too put off by wierdness)…