After just a few minutes of searching, I've found a large number of cars that prove once and for all that this 100,000-mile thing is a myth, including this 2002 Toyota 4Runner with 414,538 miles, this 1998 Mazda Protégé with 278,579 miles, this 2002 Nissan Frontier with 350,721 miles, this 2002 Honda Insight with…

After just a few minutes of searching, I've found a large number of cars that prove once and for all that this 100,000-mile thing is a myth, including this 2002 Toyota 4Runner with 414,538 miles, this 1998 Mazda Protégé with 278,579 miles, this 2002 Nissan Frontier with 350,721 miles, this 2002 Honda Insight with…

When you consider the cost and complexity of the number of options if they aren't packaged, it does make sense for the manufacturer.

I prefer being able to order exactly the options I want, but I understand why they don't offer that anymore. What really annoys me is when you have someone like Honda, who had for years…

Just a foul for buying such a monstrosity in the first place.

I'm not so certain - we've actually seen a significant decrease in customization options for cars over the past 10-15 years as manufacturers have been packaging everything into standard trim line sets (like Honda has done for years). That loss has occurred after there was a huge push from manufacturers to try to…

That's nothing. There used to be a set of speedbumps at the back of an old strip mall near my home that were basically nothing but concrete parking curbs installed across the road - 3 of them in parallel, about 6-8 inches apart, about 3 inches high and about 7 inches wide. The sign said "SPEED BUMPS" and in reality…

Oh, yeah - if you could change consumer behavior you're looking at a whole different world. I just don't see that happening - too many people I know fall into one of two categories - they'll impulse buy without a second though and demand instant gratification, or they'll hold off as long as possible, and when their…

You're also looking at a unique point in time. Used car prices have been absurd for a few years. Case in point - when I last bought a car, used prices for a 1 year old identical version of the same car with 36k on the odometer were ~$400-700 HIGHER than brand new. Drawing any conclusions from used v new car prices…

unthinkably ugly, too...

As a result of that, it's not inconceivable to have a delivery timeline of as short as a week. A custom order is placed on Monday, your car is built on Tuesday, and it takes 3 days or so to ship to your dealer, then you pick it up the following week at your leisure.

Internal combustion engines have had camshafts since, well, the dawn of internal combustion. The nuts over at Koenigsegg have developed one that uses pneumatic actuators to open and close the valves. Read our man Travis' report and be amazed.

This thing better be small, because .012 W at 34 mph windspeeds is pathetic if it isn't. You can buy CHEAP (as in $400ish cheap) wind turbines that will produce nearly 22 times as much power out of a single square inch of swept area at windspeeds below 30 mph.

Will they sell a rolling execution chamber version in China to replace the ones they have?

Well, at least they didn't show somebody tied up in the trunk and easily escaping...

http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/news/ferrar…

I'm amazed that their looks have held up that well over the years. They were actually quite fun to drive (for their time), too. A garbage automatic transmission, but a decent manual... competitive fuel economy and actually average reliability meant it really wasn't a bad car. Not great - but not bad, either. Not…

Yes, because they clearly led to the city's bankruptcy - despite the fact that few auto plants were ever in the city.

As for the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, as they were circling the drain, it turns out that the cost for union labor wasn't actually higher than the cost for labor at their competition - nor was…

Interesting - all those lovely fake Ohio licenses... and yet requiring someone to show a license is somehow going to eliminate non-existent in-person voter impersonation fraud, if you listen to the lunatics running the state government.

We have several in our company's fleet running the grounds as service vehicles. Such a hunk of junk, but evidently made of unobtanium or something...

Ford Probe. Not what many people think of in terms of a hatch, and certainly not just two simple boxes - but rather more like two triangles back to back, with a highly sloped hatch...

Hamtramck is its own town - not part of Detroit.