Amazing how in the Tiger Woods shot Buick managed to shrink the nose, finding the one angle where it doesn't go oink-oink.

One of the many innovations of the Fiero was the way the plastic panels were bolted on to the spaceframe, this "mill and drill" supposedly allowing easy appearance changes. By the time Pontiac took advantage of it to make some nifty Fiero variations (Fiat X1/9 clone, cut-down 300ZX, etc.), the car was already on the…

Even ignoring the engine, the Ro80 was an impressive car design for 1967, a German amalgam of the Rover P6 (2000) and some of the Alfas of the time.

I'm saying your car itself is a web server. Any thing that can provide information about itself will be something you connect to using standard http from a standard browser. http//1583GF_{VINnumberofmycar}/ , http//toaster.myhouse.city.us/status , http//webcam.shower.myhouse.city.us/stream, etc. They've all got…

Like the fridge screen that tells you its contents, they've got it backwards. The car should implement a Web server, and then you can access it from any device. You'd go to http//127.raywert.92camaro/status.html from your PC or phone and see a basic status page for your car. You could also run a fancy browser or…

He's not very coherent on the environment. Yes, the Kyoto Protocol will only delay some catastrophic global warming effects. The obvious conclusion is we need something stronger! He's simply lying when he claims, without references, that "There are many scientists ... who maintain that man's impact on the…

Reminds me to wonder what happened to the "Hydraulic Power Assist" that Ford announced back in 2002.

If your car has regenerative braking (like the Prius and other hybrids), do you even need conventional friction brakes except for a parking brake?

The CTS/CTS-V is such a lovely vehicle. It looks like a creased Nissan from the side (why does Cadillac's color selector show it that way!?), but from any 3/4 view or in the flesh, it's very special. There's one in Champagne Mist parked on the street near me and I've spent hours walking around it. An SRX that had…

I needed a 5 passenger AWD rental to go skiing and got a Pacifica with a ton of options. All three drivers liked it a lot. Compared with a (shudder) Durango rental for another ski trip, the Pacifica is way better.

They're obviously "big hatchbacks". But hatchback == death, at least in the minds of Motown marketers. How about "five door"? "Crossover" is meaningless as is "crossover utility vehicle" as is "Crossover SUV".

Thanks for noting Motown's obsession with horse-drawn carriages: Landau, Brougham, opera windows, the Body by Fisher logo. I couldn't find the derivation of the Eldorado Biarritz model, an amazing concoction of vinyl, padding, rhomboid windows, and stainless steel accent strips.

Go through your old "car" mags for all the Esprit prototypes and spy shots, I tell ya there's been one a year since 1979. The front headlight treatment of this one looks good. Ferrari's 599 GTB has moved on to single tail lights instead of two round ones, will this Lotus and the Corvette look dated?

That's jazz keyboardist Eumir Deodato rocking out with a superstar ensemble (Ray Barreto on congas, Ron Carter and Stanley Clarke on bass, Billy Cobham on drums, ...). As Wikipedia says, the music was used to great effect in "Being There" when Chance the gardener leaves his building for the first time.

I loved Race Drivin', struggling to complete a lap through that final tube.

It could work, it's midway between the Aston Martin Rapide and the Maserati Quattroporte on the pretty<->butch scale and I like the Carrera GT headlights. The rear door openings make it hard for Porsche to put the sexy rear haunches of the Cayman or Turbo on it. Leave the monster wing to tuners.

A CVT shifts in 0 ms!

OMG the car they're driving matches the computer rendering. Giving hope to every dork with photochop skillz that his or her VR fantasy might one day be made real!

It's clever marketing. If you're in the market for a $60,000-$210,000 car and want DSG, VW group will upsell you a Bugatti Veyron.

Yeah but Lincoln is so, like totally Pucci. Go America!