If the office had to a Top Gear long-distance ‘competition’, where each person was to pick one 25-year old import as their ride of choice, who would pick what?

I liked the one I sat in at NAIAS. Nothing about the interior screamed “cheap” for $35k:

Seeing these physically hurt me.

Can they make it with Tron lines?

Seeing as your mom recently bought an ND, how’s she been reacting to the news?

Carbon fiber is tough, but I can’t imagine the general public are going to think that without A LOT of marketing—and even then I think there’s going to be some push-back.

How has no one in the US government learned from what happened to the Big Three? Protecting by punishing the competition isn’t protecting, it’s fostering bad behavior.

*whispers* It’s almost like he’s not a good businessman

As someone who used to regularly drive around Chicago—my dad still commutes from one end of the city to the other almost every day—I was practically singing Hallelujah when I first moved to Detroit.

Is this like the hill climb variant of The Gumball Rally quote? What’s not on the road is not important?

David, are you OK? Because I think you died and went to wacky hoon heaven.

Combat, bad-ass engineer who just wants to help the heroes.

She is a combat engineer who just wants to help the heroes do their thing.

Luckily the owner conducted himself with aplomb

I’m planning on upgrading my NB with newer fog lights for a similar reason. They were a dealer-installed option in 99, don’t have an official Mazda product code, and are notorious for melting in the back.

Yup. Changing the brakes in a car can puncture a lot of egos. I thought, when I got my NB, that having discs on all four wheels would make it a cinch to change the pads—I did it on my old Sentra several times.

Please tell me at least some of those testing drivers were blasting Eurobeat

That interior is just...

+1000 yes

Wow, that might be one of the best-looking modern engine bays