Someones labor of love.

@jedchev: It's funny you say that as it is my understanding that Ethanol is actually more expensive to produce than ordinary gasoline. Maybe a fellow Jalopnik-er knows more, but thats what i've heard.

@JDickson87: Every manufacturer is certainly doing something different, Hopefully nothing happens but it takes years to find out if ethanol hurts your car. By than the damage is done.

@LincolnK: I suppose it beats paying them not to produce anything.

@JDickson87: It's not a stupid question at all, all you have to do is drive something with a gas engine. forget the science for a minute and think back a few of years when Ethanol was not so prevalent, how did your car perform? Now think about how lame your car seems these days. Had any fuel system repairs lately,…

@$kaycog: Your picture is pretty close to what I had in mind.

One of the things you begin to appreciate as a child when you are a motorhead, are parents that replace their car every few years. Unlike smarter people, my parents rarely hung onto a car for more than 4 or 5 years until the mis 80's. When I came along my parents owned a late 60's Ford, that I am going to recall as a…

@Serpent2: "honda and toyoda don't have any vehicle like the volt yet.. so it is hard to say if they are better or not until they release something. "

@songs: Ahh what could've been! The EV1 always made me wonder, it was GM's ugly duckling except they beheaded it and served it for supper.

@crazycrsx: Agreed whole heartedly as I have recently purchased a Highlander, but GM has no diversity which is a business plan destined to fail - especially in a volatile market. Thanks, that was a great point.

@Elhigh: The Fusion is perfect example of real effort from an American car company. It really is too bad GM never took fuel efficiency seriously, the 74' & 78' fuel crisis was a clear indicator of change that they chose to ignore. Now even the best they can do is simply mediocre.

A century old car company, decades of century old technology in their vehicles, and everybody reeeeaaalllly believes that GM could suddenly build a car more advanced and that much more fuel efficient than car companies like Honda & Toyota that have been knee deep in hybrid technology for the last decade? Even if GM…

Was Jeremy Clarkson on board?

It was nice to know you Lincoln! The countdown timer continues.

I hate to sound like i'm longing for the ole days, but the real problem is that there just aren't any simple old cars out there you can pick up for a couple hundred bucks, and fix up or hot rod by going to the junkyard and scrounging for parts anymore. Contemporary cars are both disposable and very complicated all at…

People are to stupid to operate compu—- Iiiieee mean cars. Lets make them work themselves making any and all human involvement redundant and completely irrelevant.

Although I too grew up seeing these cars as a form of conspicuous consumption I saw them first as something much more. These cars reflect the peak, the epitome of performance and engineering unfetted by market segment and price point. They, to me, represent the very best the human imagination can muster without fear…

@Bonhomme7h: I hope things get better for you soon.

@Bonhomme7h: Hang on over there!

@Zaphod_Has_a_Heart_of_gold: Not a bad idea! I actually found something auto related.