I averaged 117 mph for an hour in a Dodge Caravan.

Make the cars or cease to exist, it's not complicated.

Easy - executive bonuses and then bankruptcy, what american business does best in the 21st century.

Just limit their executive salaries and bonuses to, say, 10 times what the lowest paid employee gets and let em keep the jets. Everyone whines about union wages, but nothing about cutting massive executive salaries and perks.

I'd feel smarter on a used Yamaha TW200.

I like it too, slightly more edgy akin to the other newish mazdas.

@undefined: @LionZoo:

For $12 Billion, we'll resume building the EV1.

But...the Honda Element is already for sale.

@bzr:

@DannyBN:

Dang, $25 billion seems real cheap next to the bailout package!

OMG body roll hell!

Golf cart?

One question tho - how does it crash? Is it safe? I know that this is at odds with fuel economy, but if it means certain death, I'd rather have a crash-tested Volt.

I for one would be more smug in a Tesla.

Wait, let me get this straight...Mini...SUV? Mini...SUV...? I don't get it, I though the thing was supposed to be "mini" size, not originally mini but getting fatter with each successive model.

@bpapa9013: The auto is a pig, and I haven't driven the SC, but my AWD also handles like a pig — no sudden course corrections on the highway please. But then I am running truck tires.

@weatherman: I don't know what your cherokee gets, but my 03 AWD gets ~23 mpg most of the time, and often 25-27 mpg on trips.

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