Sounds expensive to manufacture new, and to fix when broken.

Methinks the movie studios would want to keep a deal with manufacturers like Audi and Acura. Audi and Acura hand over a fleet of vehicles at a discount to use for production at a discount to the studio; Audi and Acura reap what is essentially a 2-hour car advertisement. It's win-win for both.

But everybody else was doing it and I love the picture :(

Well make it into a racecar, but I like where your head's at.

Literally.

Anybody wanna go to T's Lounge with me to see the Octomom strip-show? It'll be like Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

Used to have a pearl white '95 Thunderbird with the same drive train (albeit a 2-valve 4.6L instead of 4-valve, which was good for a paltry 205bhp). Despite the low power, the car was amazing in every other way. Great ride, great handling, decent economy, easy to work on, not too big, not too small, great-sized back…

My thoughts exactly. But prepare your flamesuit.

Disregard the Wikipedia entry. Legally speaking, a person can be detained until they are placed under arrest. One shows up on a criminal record, finds a person in a jail cell, and eventually before a judge; and the other potentially lets a person go on their merry way. Processing happens at the station. Prosecution…

The handcuffing is wrong. Violation of civil liberties? Sure. Rational? I'd argue it is. I find it strange, though, that with such a large sampling of people detained, none of them had the mindset of everybody else on this forum like "ZOMFG RAGE SO HARD RIGHT NOW I'D NEVER COMPLY AND SUE THE HELL OUT OF POLICE…

They weren't arrested...

Yep...Darius!

Handcuffing was excessive, but detention is perfectly legal, valid, and justified (as in being detained for a witness statement). Just as you have civil liberties, you have civic responsibilities.

No, this is more like an extended DUI checkpoint which, last I checked, are perfectly legal. Just like police are looking through cars, one by one, for intoxicated drivers, these police were looking, one by one, for a dangerous criminal.

So the better option, since the police had zero description of the subject and no other information but his location, would have been to just let everyone go and try to figure it out later?

Surely you could have come up with a better punchline than that...

If that's what it takes to apprehend a criminal, and nobody was hurt or greatly inconvenienced, then I see nothing wrong with it.

I had an unmodified '03 350Z for 3 years — such a buttery smooth, problem-free motor. But it was very unimpressive. It just felt like it had no torque. The numbers were there on paper, sure, but I just couldn't get the feeling that I was going fast.

I forget his name, but he lives in Concord, CA, right down the street from a buddy of mine. Or so last I've heard.

Haha same...I couldn't stop laughing.