Eliminating belt-driven accessories means better mpg, less servicing, and in general a more reliable car. Win.

Rant wrong. Electric cars are being mass-produced, whether or not they are relevant to you. Existing electric cars work fine for lots of drivers, especially since the majority of households have more than one car. It doesn't matter how long the battery takes to recharge if every morning you get in a car with a full…

Jalopnik featured a video tour of the Pagani factory and the quality of their carbon fiber weave and layup was staggering. No man's suit in the world has cloth cut to that level of care. Where's the equivalent video for the Veyron's carbon finish?

Sitting in a car is a great opportunity to listen to music, if you love recorded music then why not make it sound as good as possible? I know someone with ~$10,000 of audio in his 5-series who gets more time to listen there than at home with the kids and TV.

Audi focusing on the shiny-shiny to distract from the fact that their EV program is a disaster. They hoped to copy Tesla and start with a high-end halo sports GT car, which must have seemed like a good plan when the only competition was Tesla's cramped spartan Roadster and even better when Tesla ended its production.…

Cue the uninformed ranting about government. Congress passed the $25bn Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program under George W. Bush. Go re-read those words again. It's a loan program for the manufacture of advanced vehicle technology in the USA. It seems to have worked because Ford ($5.9bn) is…

Highest and purest style: GTA: Vice City

You're wrong, and/or confused about units. The Nissan Leaf has an 80 kW (110 hp) motor powered exclusively by its battery, and that certainly doesn't cost $120,000! Perhaps you mean kilowatt·hours, a unit of energy. The Tesla Model S costs 49,900 - $59,900 - $69,900 for 40 - 60 - 85 kW·h battery, so Tesla is able to…

The phonautogram was evidence of a musical performance, Scott couldn't play it back. It's poetic that 150 years later we figured out how to scan lines in soot and the artifact transmuted into a recording.

Carl Haber at IRENE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been doing this for several years. His team has made 3-D scans of wax cylinders and shattered shellac disks and "played" the scans.

TheScraper has it right, "it" is devolving, not improving. But "it" means several things:

Seriously, I think "Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 GTR Stirling Moss" wins, and then when you add the "AMG Black" and aftermarket packages like "ASMA Perfectus ", you've long since run out of room on the trunk lid. I want to get a base SLR just so I can stick all those words on the back in Pep Boys faux diamanté…

Good for him, if you don't do this at the sight of several models then you're a jaded poseur, not a car enthusiast. I still park my beater to peer through the windows of a nearby Bentley/Lambo/Lotus dealer. And the first and only time I saw a BMW M1 on the street it turned my frown upside down and had me leaping…

What are you on about? $10,000 non-toxic battery packs are already safely recycled, just like the highly-toxic lead-acid batteries in conventional cars. There is no hard evidence that making them is significantly more polluting than the steel and nickel and plastic in conventional cars. Obviously adding a thousand…

Phenomenal video, thanks!

while your mom's Toyota has a weaksauce 98-horsepower drivetrain

Yes it's silly marketing (our battery is relatively small so it charges quickly!). Anyway the charging time is irrelevant if you have a garage with a plug. Every morning your car is ready to go 18 miles all-electric, cheaply and overall-less-bad for the environment, after that the hybrid's engine can kick in.

Hey Mr. Okulski, did Jalopnik just wake up? Over a year ago back in June 2011 other car sites all covered Winterkorn's statement (translated from German): I am firmly convinced that plug-in hybrids are the right solution for the next ten years. You can drive 50 to 60 kilometers all-electric and have the full…

Yes! The "longroof" design for the 1984 Civic hatckback, one of the most beautiful city cars ever made. Designers have lost the knack of putting an upright rear window on a hatchback, look at the wasted space at the back of the Fiat 500 and Audi A1. They can square off the back of a Nissan Cube or Kia Soul, but they…

What part of "it's a hybrid that, with the drag coefficient of a greased football, gets more than 100 mpg" do you not understand? Fish-inspired vehicles achieve better aerodynamics, so get used to them.