I'm curious how bad of gas mileage you're getting?

That was my first reaction to this design, too. Here's the rub, though - if you drove one for any length of time, it was arguably the most intuitive, well-designed layout you would find.

Vulcan V6 = damned near impossible to kill.

My 97 looked like that when I got rid of it - on one corner only, though... I managed to nail a trash can flying through the air on a VERY windy night....

And yet the story implies it was a lemon via the headline...

Heck, they bragged the 2008 could fit 8 bags of clubs in its trunk...

I was about to point this out. The 75 figure is MPGe, not MPG. They're counting the electricity and assuming a certain distance driven before recharging. By comparison, the Ford C-Max is already rated 100 MPGe if you get the plug-in version.

I remember a magazine article awhile back about an Avro Lancaster (Smithsonian Air & Space Mag, maybe?) - anyway, they landed at an airport for a show, and called the FBO for some oil to be delivered to the plane. FBO asks how many units, they tell them they need 2 (?), but don't specify the unit of measure... FBO…

Looks to me like it wasn't closed in the picture. The gap grows towards the front as you would expect if it just hadn't been fully closed... and in the later head-on picture, that gap isn't varying the same way and the gap between the hood and the grille is smaller than the first pic...

Looks to me like it wasn't closed in the picture. The gap grows towards the front as you would expect if it just hadn't been fully closed... and in the later head-on picture, that gap isn't varying the same way and the gap between the hood and the grille is smaller than the first pic...

I had Scott McClellan speak at my college's graduation, she can't possibly be worse than he was.

In many ways, the traditional three-box sedan is one of the least efficient ways to make a car. It's less attractive than its coupe-y brethren, less useful than its hatchback'd cousins (whether CUV or wagon).

Jaques Nasser.

DOE did in fact "loan" to the auto industry - Ford, Nissan, Tesla, Fisker all got DOE loan guarantees, and that is where the $26 billion figure in willconltd's post comes from - from those DOE programs.

Harley Sportster 883 60-0 : 134 feet

Speed limit in school zones is 20, not 25. And when there is a heightened probability of kids appearing (ie buses loading, unloading), they stop traffic. Do the calculations on your stopping distance and your lines of sight. 20 is too fast - you have too many spots where you can't see and stop in time. 10, maybe…

False analogy. This is closer to that horrid flick Indecent Proposal, where someone comes in and offers your wife $40 million to leave you, and your wife doesn't even let you counter, because she's really just a prostitute.

Yes, they are. And Texas is being wasteful with all these bribes. Not all of them work - Ohio has a long history of giving out these kickbacks and then finding out the company never lived up to its obligations but got the money anyway, and Texas is no different.

Not on firefox, chrome, or ie. None allow a click through, none allow a right click to copy the "link", and none even show a full link in the source for the element (beyond the /mli45..., which is standard Forbes protocol for all their ridiculous slideshows).

Not at all. If you right click on it, it doesn't even show up as a link you can copy or open in a new window.