@Cisco-Kid: You can't get an Audi A3 TDI with all-wheel drive in the USA! According to audiusa.com, "2.0 TFSI® Premium (or Premium Plus) with six-speed S tronic® automatic transmission and quattro®" is the only AWD A3 for sale.

@ozyran: Kässbohrer "PistenBully" sounds like an underground German S&M movie star.

@nataku8_e30: The extra heft of the Intrepid

@Cheeseslap: And yes, man probably has an infintesimal effect in creating that warming.

@doug-g: The only other extended-range electric vehicle that's (supposedly) close to volume production is the $80,000 Fisker Karma, but sure eventually someone will "do it better".

@Cheeseslap: I hate to interrupt your circle jerk, but the latest peer-reviewed science shows warming effects outpace the IPCC4 estimates[1], that temps remain 0.6 degrees above average (and the warmest for thousands of years) despite the current plateau[2], that as this has continued for decades it is more and more…

@GV_Goat: The value lies in your chosen class of vehicle polluting less than it otherwise might; expecting that feature to pay for itself is muddled thinking. Also, any car that spews pollution at nearby pedestrians and cyclists when at a standstill is hopelessly primitive and isn't worthy of a high-tech luxury…

@doug-g: Your post is 90.9% OK, but you blew it with one phrase. If you think the Volt "contributes little or nothing new to the automotive industry" you're clueless or insane.

@doug-g: Agreed. Especially the view from the front quarter - picture #7 makes the rear look like it's 50 yards further away than the front. But then even from the rear in picture #9 the rear wheels still look far away. The car's an optical illusion!

@Apeiron242: I'm not denying how awful it is that there are incompetent garbled web pages out there. My bank's login page currently dies in nightly Firefox with html5.enabled parsing... because some idiot added a script block in the no man's land between the closing head tag but before the body tag!!

@Apeiron242: You're either joking or not thinking it through. A browser that flashes to Grandma "This web page contains invalid HTML" is one that will be a complete and utter failure. Instead, HTML5 accepts reality and is very detailed on how to parse html documents, including the billions of invalid garbled web…

The Koenigseggsegeegeggg deal never felt real because it depended on three billion Swedish Kronor appearing from the tooth fairy troll. Koenigseahhtohellwithit was finally able to get $600 million of financing approved by the European Investment Bank, but the details of the financing didn't mesh with running a car…

@TheFu: Supposedly Apple won't accept Theora because they're afraid some patentholder will sue them over a patent violation in it. I think that's a smokescreen for Apple's desires for control, marginalizing open source browsers (who can never ship H.264 source code), and their QuickTime-centric fantasies.

@amaack: As I remarked elsewhere, HTML5 features are already far more popular on smartphones than Flash is.

[www.chromeexperiments.com] and [hacks.mozilla.org] have lots of good examples of HTML5 technologies. (If you're using MSIE6/7/8, don't even both visiting them.)

@unruled: You're wrong, the video tag and its attributes remain in the HTML5 spec in great detail. What the spec doesn't do is bless a particular codec or format, because browser makers couldn't agree between open source Theora and patented H.264. That's bad, but a) the img tag doesn't actually mandate a particular…

@Motor_Yakuza: I agree the headlights look wrong. The way the R8's LEDs frame the headlamps like the cascading hair of a beautiful woman who longs to caress you at the auto show has yet to be equalled.

@MaWeiTao: But if GM's inept marketing department didn't come up with new names, what would the overpaid marketing types do? I'm sure GM has regularly put together an incompetent marketing task force to evaluate the synergies of not changing model names, but the conclusion is always no new name might mean less need…

Is there any rear wing with "vast empty space inside it"?

The CNW "argument" isn't valid. Obviously making a new car takes resources. But operating a car for 150,000+ miles takes far, far more resources, whether you measure it in CO2 or other pollution. IF you can make an appreciable dent in the resources consumed in operation (by getting a car with say 30% better MPG),…