Winner romps home by 10 lengths! Aston Martin has had that grille for 60 years. (1952 DB3). I wonder who first designed it?

Subtle but true. I remember friends carefully putting red tape on their plain Golf grilles.

The Aptera founders didn't have a large personal fortune thanks to cashing out from Paypal. They did receive investment money ( [en.wikipedia.org] ) but after the $24M 2008 Series C they got CEO Paul Wilbur whom some blame for the failure. Meanwhile "Musk provided almost all of the capital for Tesla's first two…

Aptera didn't get government money. Do pay attention.

No, people driving the panda off ~95% of its habitat is not a "natural reason."

Sure, but the primary reason their numbers declined is loss of habitat due to expansion of farming. Go read [www.iucnredlist.org] : "Significant climatic changes combined with thousands of years of cultivation of lower and flatter habitats and hunting by humans caused the giant pandas’ range to shrink to a remnant at…

GM sold 6,142 Volts in the USA as of the end of November, and some additional number went to Europe and Asia. They missed their 10,000 sales target (most car models don't meet their sales goals, see Fiat 500) but it's not yet the flop everyone confidently forecast. I think "93% of Volt owners who responded said they…

Heh, I checked my LPs. At the time Prince wrote "U drove me to the place", by Purple Rain it was was "U drove me 2 the place", then by Lovesexy it was "[eye symbol] started 2 worry", and in 1992 he introduced his TAFKAP symbol/logo. Fans call it Princebonics, I think he got pissed off when someone corrected his…

Or Yusuf Amir, though he usually prefers his gold-plated Enus Super Drop Diamond convertible (with a gold-plated SMG in the glove compartment) over Lambos. "We got A-rab money! We're getting A-rab money" "If only my father gave me a few billion I could really call my own, then maybe I would grow up." [gta.wikia.com]

He's not an artist, just a craftsman.

From the comparo "For starters, we generally prefer the four-cylinder Accords, which are more agile and lively because they carry less weight over their front wheels."

I'm pretty sure that's a Lambo, but not a Dude

Excellent, kick it to the kerb!

I want to see pictures of the small hairy-footed hobbits climbing out of their crashed exotics! No wonder they crashed, they couldn't see over the steering wheel. (Or am I confusing my LOTR pre-history with the fellowship?)

Toyota Prius was best-selling car in Japan in 2009 (208,876) and 2010 (315,669 of the new 3rd-gen). It's helped by government subsidies and tax breaks for eco-friendly cars. Some months the Honda Fit beats it, especially since Honda introduced the Japan-only cheaper hybrid Fit. 2011 sales will obviously be affected by…

Tesla gave up on a two-speed Roadster transmission, but Fisker is going to have a go. From July:

You seem to be confusing evolution and abiogenesis. I didn't deny the existence of a creator, just arguing north.mister's woefully clueless statement Macro Evolution is scientifically impossible.

150 years ago changes in animal coloration and the adaptation of animals on Galapagos were Proof of evolution. Since then we've discovered DNA and gene mutation and so understand the actual processes Darwin so brilliantly inferred. Ahh, so you retreat to say there's no "macro evolution". Well, over hundreds of…

You mean "a source". A single industrial plant is nothing compared with, say, global vehicle transportation or deforestation. Studies differ, but as I recall the government's GREET model estimates it takes about 0.4 gallons of fossil fuel input to make a gallon of ethanol: the tractor, the watering, the evil…

It's not faintly recorded, it's well known, go read about Ice ages.