sad to many of us who hoped for the rise of the hot 5-door hatch

I keep saying — The government has funded research! US Advanced Battery Corporation, FreedomCAR, Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, United States Council for Automotive Research, etc. Google/Wikipedia them. Jalopnik editors, please do some semi-original research on what happened to them all vs. the bold…

@mechimike wrote:

The Alfa Sportwagon looks better than the Audi A3 Sportback from that angle; from others not so much. It's a bigger car, A4 Avant-sized.

@geffel12: Tracey Emin made at least one knockout work. Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 at the infamous Sensation show was just sensational if you were lucky enough to crawl inside the little tent and be up close to the hand-appliquéd names of Everyone she had ever slept with. If your kid makes anything…

@ViergangFuchs: As a triple-Porsche owner

@BMRFILE:

@Tanshanomi: Ducati already whored their brand name to Burton snowboards in 2006. I'm embarrassed to admit that I put Ducati bindings on my snowboard because they were on sale.

@qwerk: What I love about the cars in this game was the avoidance of pay for placement advertising

@Maymar: More importantly, is the Prius's success due to its qualities as a car, or its qualities as a symbol?

@subsammy: RTFA. Haptic feedback means each button can button in a group can pulse differently, which is potentially better than a forest of conventional buttons where occasionally you press the wrong one.

@charles_barrett: Convince yourself you'll eventually need a Blu-Ray player, so get a PS3 and the game. Maybe your gay-dar can tell us the truth about Brucie.

@A Pimp Named DaveR,

@LandofMinos, mmm carrots, num num num num ++

@cargogh, @Shapeshifter:

The underlying 1984 Honda Ballade platform/design also produced the Civic hatchback, the sedan, and the groundbreaking Shuttle AWD wagon, all exceptional. No 80s malaise here.

@rlj676:

@abgwin: Hey, don't insult the marketing department. Engineering is hard! Meanwhile, the one guaranteed way they can impact a new car is to impactfully change product names regularly for no good reason. Impact is good!

@Ben Wojdyla, @lascauxcaveman: a little kid in his parents basement

@rlj676