It's acutally closer than you think. Both the Taurus and the Explorer are built off the 1999 S80 (P1) platform, with whatever Ford thinks qualifies as a car on top.

Except for the part where it's a turbocharged inline six making 300 horsepower?

I watched it on mute. All I heard in my mind was this.

As long as we're taking pot-shots at Aston (arguably some of the most beautiful cars ever made), what about every 911? Essentially the same car, for the last 40 years.

SEAT is a Volkswagen brand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT

No, and I feel dumber for having watched it.

I guess whoever will be driving this car will be double-clutching, one way or another.

Surprised it took this long. The woman is crazy, of the bat-shit variety. For all the nasty things I've seen in a paddock, the worst is seeing someone actually walk through it barefoot. And then you realize that someone is Ashley Judd.

Precisely. God help us if the government has to define what "reasonable and prudent" is, or spend money on infrastructure because we can't figure it out ourselves.

If you bought an S60, or any Volvo except the XC90 for that matter, you can't forego it.

No one in California ever suspected a thing . . .

Subaru: That's what makes a lesbian, a lesbian.

All this because someone couldn't figure out which part of the google street view car was the front?

Once again you have won the internets.

If rolling back is what you're worried about, electronic parking brakes usually have a hill-hold feature that allows you to keep it on, then automatically releases when you accelerate forward. Just sayin'.

Do I detect a note of jealousy from the schmendrick who didn't think of it first?

I'll agree, much like everything else has been spoiled with the advent of camera phones, etc. I mean, you can't beat up a guy for commenting on your rims, or poorly hoon two corvettes into each other without the whole world knowing. What has this world come to?

I've sold two cars on Craigslist, and it took less than two weeks for each car. One of them I had sold in three days. You'll have to deal with the crazies and scammers who want to give you "a little more so my mother can have that operation", but otherwise it's a relatively painless experience.

Ryan Gosling and Matthew McKindaGay? Is this a man-lust kind of list? Because I'm seriously questioning the lack of Bond actors, RDJr, Nicholas Cage (he had a beige Volvo PV544 in The Rock for God's sake) and all the rest of the legitimate actor guys people mentioned.

You do realize the C30 Polestar from Volvo does not have AWD. The C30 concept built by Polestar did. All three of them.