That was a false alarm. Toyota clarified yesterday:

How exactly is the technology "not there"? The Roadster works fine as a daily ride unless you drive over 200 miles. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is faster than most sports cars, way faster than the 6-second Lotus Elise on which it's based and faster even than the expensive Exige Lotus variant. It's a cramped impractical grand…

Sounds about right, though I believe Toyota is making the tiny low-range 2012 Scion iQ Electric in-house. Tesla hired Toyota's Gilbert Passin as Vice President of manufacturing last year: "Passin served as general manager of production engineering for Toyota in North America."

It's a bloated faux SUV, blame the huge segment of the public who insist on "commanding road presence" and a rugged offroad fantasy instead of a sensible station wagon or hatchback. At least the donor car "only" weighs 3360 lbs.

Nissan is easily selling every Leaf it makes across Japan, Europe and the USA; in the USA it's still fulfilling web site pre-orders. Now that it's scared all the half-assed EV makers (Coda, Think, Wheego, ...) into irrelevance or bankruptcy with the Leaf's relatively low price (compared to the Tesla Roadster and…

Reverse 6th: several of the Ferrari student designs borrow from the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept with its folded panels flowing onto and off a smooth shell. More evidence Adrian van Hooydonk's stunner is the most influential concept car in years. I hope BMW keeps the purity intact for the production i8.

Car magazine's the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly said it best about the Phantom:

Why did you include a pic of a late 90s Hyundai Dynasty?

The 1974-1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five is supposedly the longest production car ever at 252 inches. All the boxy 1970s Fleetwoods are so gargantuan it's hard to tell which is the blue whale; I like how the tail recedes in your picture as if taken with a fish-eye lens. I agree with @UnlimitedRevs , the 1958 is…

Great, and 246 inches. Turns out Mercedes-Benz is still making Pullman models, e.g. [www.autoarabia.org] , no surprise it's in "AutoArabia" magazine.

Jay is appropriately enthusiastic, but so corporate and buttoned-down. Much like 2011's McLaren.

2:29 "So what would you like, auto or manual to start with?" "Let's try auto".

Twisted Metal came out in 1995 for the original PlayStation. Carmageddon came out in 1997 for DOS. All great games though. "I was in the war" - SPLAT!

Exactly. Sometimes scaring people on a matter over which they have some control (like driving while a major freeway is shut down, or possible Y2K bugs in software), is extremely helpful. Now back to the media's regular job scaring people over natural disasters, uncorroborated medical studies, and vague terrorist…

any new approach to fueling our vehicles will require a whole new infrastructure

Nothing can top Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf winning PEOPLE.com's Most Beautiful Person of the Year in 1998. Especially if you were unfamiliar with him and Howard Stern. It was surreal.

Why all the hate? I'm typing this on an LCD monitor raised a foot above my keyboard. Gazing down at a screen inches above your fingers is an ergonomic disaster. And if the bulky enclosure allows better sound than crappy cookie-sized speakers, all the better.

We've built our lives around the car as we know it, you get in, you drive as far as you want to go, you fill up, you drive some more.

Chevrolet in Europe == cars from GM's Korean subsidiary. "January 1, 2005 saw the introduction of the Chevrolet brand in Europe, the whole Daewoo range being simply badge-engineered as Chevrolets." Currently there's little overlap between Chevy/Daewoo and Opel/Vauxhall, and apparently both divisions want to sell the…

What kind of person hates on a new American car company that has sold ~1700 novel electric sports cars, galvanized an industry, and has demonstrably made substantial progress in building a beautiful new sedan in America? If you're referring to the $465M loan from the Department of Energy towards manufacturing the car,…