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Another reason why San Francisco is best appreciated from a distance.

Sexiest Car For Hoons Named Dieter: Ferrari Enzo

Let me guess...was this the donor car for an Escort stretch limo?

The Brits can thank the Congress of the United States (and President Lyndon B. Johnson) for the twin kicks to the crotch that the Clean Air Act and the National Highway Traffic Safety Act (both passed & signed into law in 1966, BTW) gave to their auto industry...as those two Acts either drove many British (and other

IMHO, Motor Trend is the Detroit Times of automotive-enthusiast publications (online OR print).

Speaking of bottlenecks, when it comes to plug-in hybrids whose batteries can be charged by plugging them in to an electric socket...given that the nation's power grid is just about maxed out, where's the electricity to do that going to come from? From more coal-burning power plants?

Ahh...the carb that sat atop the (factory installed) 360 in my '76 Duster.

By showing this concept more than once, is GM revolting?

If Chrysler had put the Norseman into production, would the production versions have been T-boned by Swedish cars the way the prototype—and the Andrea Doria that was carrying it—were T-boned by the Stockholm?

Methinks we'll get our rolling 30-year emissions-testing exemption back around the time that the levees along CA Highway 160 are replaced with stronger ones that aren't so spongy to drive on.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Why bother reading anything the NYT prints/blogs about cars? They hate them, and they hate anyone/everyone who designs/engineeers/sells/services/drives/enjoys cars.

Way to be Teuton your own horn there, Davey.

Zoomzit—maybe jalopnik should do some bus/tolley ads that have one of these "vehicles" splatted onto it, with the legend, "Yes, You Too Can Be 'Hoon Of The Week!"...or something fun like that.

What drewdraws2 said.

Wonder if he didn't leave behind his design for his coffin (& his wishes about it to be carried out) in his will?

We'll no doubt hear more about this bill all the way thru the rest of the California Legislature's session (they're not even to the first-committee-deadline date yet...and the final bill-passage deadline is September 14th.)

@Tom Anderson.

Somewhere, a salesman will look at this and say, "A $100,000 Toyota," and sigh...the same way that I saw/heard a polyester-clad salesman do that over a $5,200-stickered Plymouth Fury III in '74.

Whatever they call it (I'm partial to the 9-Seires myself), you can rejoice in the fact that it has no Banglebutt.