In the early-mid 20th century USA unions pushed big companies to offer company health plans (I think to make union membership more appealing), rather than uniting for the overall social good of universal coverage. That made union shops less competitive and did nothing for "the other XX%" who weren't in unions. And now…

Exactly. The cyclists irritating other road users are young, eventually they'll grow up and (we can hope!) become less self-centered. When I bike I don't demand the right of way, I never go through red lights, I wave on cars that arrived at the intersection first, etc. I have almost no hostile/dangerous interactions…

The new car has to be more than the last car, but every supercar is going to fall well short of the Bugatti Veyron for years to come. Meanwhile, it's possible that even Ferrari's ultimate V12s will have 0-60 times that fall short of electric cars like the Rimac Concept One. What's poor Ferrari (and Lamborghini) to do?

As @snapoversteer, Arbiter of D'Elegance noticed but Jalopnik editors didn't, the rumored NSX is a plug-in through-the-road hybrid. So the drivetrain is more like the future BMW i8, but that's a four-seat GT. The future Porsche 918 Spyder is an even more elaborate plug-in hybrid ("a third electric motor is connected…

At least someone else noticed the real story that Jalopnik editors insist on burying "The extra herbs [sic] produced by the front-mounted electric motors will make the next-generation NSX a very quick car" (Motor Trend); "a high-revving V-6 displacing 3.5 to 3.7 liters powering the rear wheels. Out front, twin…

Move to Denmark or Israel and sign up for the Renault Fluence Z.E. with the Better Place quickdrop battery pack, and then robots at the handful of Better Place swap stations can swap it for you in a jiffy. The problems are many: swap stations and spare packs are expensive, so BP charges you more than just owning the…

No, why? I'm thinking about the Renault Twizy EV, which is relatively cheap, almost-available now in Europe. It's not fully enclosed, and it lacks the autonomously drive and balancing on two wheels.

And the Mii from Seat.

Nice idea, and supposedly a billion electrified bicycles and scooters are now sold in China every week, but you didn't read the part about "can operate autonomously".

Nice to see the biggest foreign car company in China thinking about alternative kinds of transportation in a place where there are 160 cities with over a million people.

You're ignoring all the comments right here from people bitching about how public transit doesn't go near them, they hate sharing a bus with smelly people, they hate subsidies, etc.

That's a small trunk with the rear seats up, but I think I could make some sacrifices for a Ferrari FF.

I think a lot of Impreza/Outback Sport owners may realistically trade in their cars for the 2012 model. It's the first genuine advance for the line in over a decade and few other car manufacturers even make small AWD cars. Surprisingly, car reviewers don't hate the Lineartronic transmission.

Nice find, so much more character than an Audi A3 or A4 quattro sportwagon. Too big to trade my '98 Impreza hatchback, though.

The fault lies in you. When the un-car-loving majority thoughtlessly bought crappy-handling obese dangerous view-blocking gas-guzzling Exploder SUVs, we car fans were disappointed, but didn't obsess over it. Now that some of them are thoughtfully buying a crappy-handling practical reliable mid-sized hatchback with the…

Nigel Tufnel also announced the return of controversial Chris Bangle as worldwide BMW design chief, saying "We embrace the Bangle Butt! Big bottom, big bottom, Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em. Big bottom drive me out of my mind; How could I leave this behind?"

The Ginetta is conceptually just like the many and various Marcos and early Noble cars: a unique vaguely attractive but uninspiring body wrapped around a tuned production V6, made in small numbers (Ginetta only plan to sell 50 a year) for less than supercar prices.

Here is GM's latest talk on Volt sales from Brita Gross, the director of electric vehicle infrastructure and commercialization at General Motors, from an online chat today:

Get it right.

Of course batteries shrink in mass. That 37 kW·h pack will weigh 1.48 millionths of a gram less by the end of the race. E=mc^2 , it's the law!