Leave work early, miss COTD, finally get on latelate, and what an excellent surprise. I didn't know I had even received a nomination.

While I appreciate the strength of your metaphor, sir...

And I'll bet that old beast can run on flammable liquid no stronger than mountain goat piss.

Roads?

Yeah, I did a really in-depth study of the Pinto case as a freshman engineering student, so this was really a mixture of sort-of-fact and bullshit :)

I know I won't be the first to mention because it's so obvious, but count me as another vote for built-in nav. Looking at Garmin's website, even a loaded-to-the-gills model that looks like a friggin' iPhone 4 is $400. A basic one that gets the job done quickly and no-frills is $150, cheaper if you don't mind a small…

So, what I'm seeing with the Pinto vs. Impala video is that Ford was dramatically ahead of its time in terms of safety features.

Who cares, anyway? For most of Motor Trend's readership, the German Camry is perfect.

Well, yes. But if I have a car with a stick, I want the control so I can more precisely adjust the car's attitude mid-corner with the throttle, so I'd want a car that can take a corner in the first place. For straight-line speed, a modern automatic that can quickly kick down to the gear that puts the engine in the…

It doesn't work quite as well for this as it does for the ZR1, and I'd be surprised if it made it into production, even if the 426 engine does get fitted on the assembly line.

Eh, it doesn't need to handle the power. This beast probably has a broad enough torque plateau that it could haul plenty of ass even if bolted to a powerglide.

The platform already gets a manual transmission in the Challenger, right, so the engineering is effectively already done.

If there were ever a car that should be allowed to sport a set of chromed testicles, it'd be this one.

What? You mean I don't need a diesel super duty to tow my 16' bass boat? The rule is, if you can feel the weight behind you, your tow vehicle is too small!

Now that Mazda is moving away from shared Ford platforms, I think we're going to start seeing some really interesting metal from the zoom-zoom company. I can't wait to review a CX-5.

Not to mention that the same basic bones underpinned the 1994-2004 model, too.

(RX330 is AWD or FWD. Definitely not RWD.)

Those old 'Yota spaceship vans must have some Hilux DNA in them...

Marinara sauce stain on the suit you wore when you toured Europe after college before joining the real world?

Highly-strung, exceptionally powerful engines are not known for being very happy at idle.