This is probably the 5-door 2011 Alfa Romeo Milano (149), it matches Car's spy shots. The Alfa Romeo dealership should be an interesting place: "We got a roomier Mini hatchback competitor, a luxury bigger-than-Golf hatchback, and a $301,600 Italian exotic, come on down!"

@Quake 'n' Shake: I believe it''s "Ply bocca".

@Mr_Nowitt: if it wasn't for the current president to deny silly turn around plans that Bush ok'd, then they would be bankupt

@RayonFog: I'm glad your SUV is working out for you, though it sounds like a European MPV without the weight and "commanding road presence" crap would work. But they're not available in the USA and even in Europe luxury buyers demand heft. :-(

@therealmusashi: To my knowledge neither the Tesla Model S nor the Fisker Karma is taxpayer-funded. The loans which arose from this Bush 43-era program are for their supposedly cheaper follow-on Model S and Project NINA sedans.

@VeeArrrSix: Now Consumer Reports says that Ford is as high quality as Honda/Toyota.

@Joe Valasek:

@matt,

@mytdawg: I feel sorry for people who drive a 4000 pound car to the gym to then pedal an exercise bike or run on a treadmill for 20 minutes. Bike or jog down side streets to the gym! It's good for you, the environment, your time, the neighborhood, your soul. #bmwx5

Right now one of bmwusa.com's front-page movies is

@Foxieness: Subhumans have appeared on Jalopnik who genuinely believe their X3 or X5 is teh ultimate! driving machine in handling and snow. They usually STFU when asked if they compared their fat tall overweight monstrosity back-to-back with a 328i xDrive or 535i xDrive on similar tires. #bmwx5

@petersterncan: Relax, the E-Cell is a battery electric vehicle! M-B invested a lot in its plant for compact cars mostly for the A- and B-class replacement, and to put a green spin on the announcement:

@Alexander Paul Baracskai:

@Scaramanga: Thanks for RTFA instead of Ben's garbled summary. Google Translate of the Mainichi articles gives the poetic "I was a young man of grazing, even abandoned the interest in the car, which I think contributes to low birth rates."

@WhisperingBomb: No, you're stuck in the past. Tesla has shipped about 850 Roadsters to customers. Tesla's October newsletter says "custom order today for delivery by Christmas", so the new know-nothing negative armchair criticism is "Tesla must be doomed, they filled almost all their pre-orders and don't have a…

the car can make a sprint to 62 MPH with limited tire spin in a scant 4.1 seconds. Limited to just 35 cars...

@skiboxing: Right, I thought Toyota's split device/hybrid synergy drive used one of the electric motor and planetary gear to act as a continuously variable transmission without any belts or V pulleys.

A great achievement by Ross Brawn (sure that's your real name, call me Wolf Blitzer), but it's sad to see the crass commercialization has already started!

@snapoversteer smells like: Don't have a cow, man. 2014's cultural archaeologists will just set GoogleArchivist to pre-2010 searching of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive and have a fine time decoding cultural references. #jeremyclarkson

@ChiefPontiaxe: 3) gave Toyota a unique selling proposition "Most fuel-efficient car on the road" that sells itself to a tiny niche... of over half a million people.