Its far from a "nice civic" but to a certain extent you are paying for the badge.

but a jalapeño and cheese double Whataburger with grilled onions is hard to top

this is Jalopnik—they just say "it has moar torques" and then wipe the drool from their chins.

Golden Road in California

he pilot didn't "charge" anything. No money changed hands. He didn't even give the guy a chance to pull his wallet out..."It doesn't matter" and he turned around. Nice how we can just take things out of context and crucify this guy for volunteering his time and skill. Found this post over on liveleak:

Do the headlights look like badly drawn boobs in that picture to anyone else?

Lies. It's never, ever Lupus.

I guess for as ugly as it is it makes since that it's based off of a similarly hideous vehicle.

Gas engines are considerably less efficient than Nuclear or Coal for the amount of energy that comes in to what is converted to usable energy. Consider how much energy that sits inside a gallon of gas is wasted as heat and drive-train loss. That's why we don't put gasoline in our power plants and drive electric cars.…

Don't forget the chickens and livestock that are usually onboard as well!

Anything other than Spirit is the wrong answer. Tickets are somewhat cheaper than AA but only do it as a last resort.

Gretchen, is that coffee? Why you racy bitch...