Call me crazy or just plain contrary, but I'm willing to give this show a shot. Sure, it could be just as bad as virtually every reality show out there, with faked emotional outbursts, manufactured intrigues, etc.—but at least the subject matter is ostensibly relevant to my interests. I thought we were car people…

$1200 Corolla FX16? Shit, I bought a running, driving (but uuuuuugly with rust) FX16 for $250 a couple of years ago.

Yep. I read Petty's (and others' similar comments) as an indictment of Patrick's relative lack of talent, not of women racers in general.

The three that popped into my head instantly upon reading this question were:

Came here to say this.

Yes, but would you risk serious jail time for 3 cases and 11 kegs of bland-at-best beer?

Probably 80% of it was skunked already. And the other 20%, being Heineken, wasn't much of a score anyway.

I'm with you. In the internet age, when anyone can present himself or herself as a "journalist," the quality of prose has plummeted, not to mention the basic mechanics of grammar and punctuation. That nobody seems to care is sad.

They ran on CO2?

Apparently a lot of jalops struggle with what constitutes an odd number.

The title is misleading because Bernie hasn't stepped back (or down) from the day-to-day operations. Therefore, whatever effect relinquishing his position on the board might have on boardroom discussions, it has zero practical effect on F1 from a fan's perspective.

Talk about misleading headlines and hyped-up copy—the devil is in the details, Orlove: Ecclestone is relinquishing his position on the board for the pendency of the investigation and prosecution. It appears that if he is acquitted, he resumes his position on the board. At this point, he has ceded no control over the…

We'll have to agree to disagree. In my subjective opinion (and speaking to a lot of other Volvo enthusiasts, I know I'm not alone here), yes it does mean it's inferior. What used to be clean styling with strong themes carried all the way through has become a cluttered, garish mess. Just look at the awful back end…

You're missing the point. It's not that there's some other car out there that looks "exactly" like an XC70, it's that the XC70 (and the V60, S60, XC60, S80, V50, and S40) has lost the distinctive styling that Volvos used to have and is instead a pastiche of generic design cues that can be found on every lame family…

Yep. As a die-hard Volvo guy (having owned a '59 Duett, an '06 XC90, and just about everything in between except an Amazon), something bad happened starting around 2008 and the current offerings (XC90 excluded) lack anything but the merest suggestion of iconic Volvo designs. There is neither the slab-sided,…

"Hopefully once all the more-money-than-brains guys have theirs, the demand will dry up and prices will come back down."

Yeah, it kind of caught me off guard, too. On the other hand, they're probably due to be on the upswing now. It looks like Testarossas may finally be bottoming out, so you would kind of expect 512BBs to be going up (but not so much so quickly!)

But that's the whole point of this exercise—you can't buy a stock 512BB for comparable money. A quick scan of recently sold/for-sale 512BBs shows that nice stock examples are in the $170K to $220K ballpark. The mods are detracting heavily from the value of this car (and if it's true that this car has been for sale…

As far as the style goes, to each his own, I guess. I was a car-crazy teenager during the '80s, so I remember the era of strakes, wings, scoops, etc. first-hand. For the most part, it just sucked. And if you're into that kind of thing, there's always the Testarossa or the Countach LP5000S.

The 512BB is a beautiful car. This one is not. So, so tacky (which would account for the bargain-basement price, as most unmolested 512BBs go for nearly twice this price). Depending on the time and effort required to return the body to stock, a person with the means to buy it could end up with a hell of a deal.