Don’t forget that there’s the Chevy Caprice police model too. Same platform, more generic styling. Chevy’s selling low numbers on this car, but the platform is selling more than just the SS.

I would agree. Veyrons do not sound good. They just sound like Veyrons.

He’s right. The Veyron sounds like an angry...something. It doesn’t sound good, it sounds industrial; almost like an alien car from another planet. The Duratec growls very nicely, even if it lacks the 10 additional cylinders.

Looks about as well built as some late 70s and early-mid-80s supercars. I sat in an early 80s Lambo once and could not believe how much it was falling apart. Never meet your heroes.

This SUV was going to be redone regardless of what gas prices were. Ford announced it like 2 years ago, well before gas dropped. Even if gas was $4 a gallon right now, full-size trucks and SUVs would still be the top sellers/money earners for the Big 3.

Haven’t owned a BMW yet, but I have owned a VW, and being a German car, yes, you have to accept up front that you’re playing in a more expensive league for repairs. I picked up a used GTI 1.8T years ago from someone who drove exclusively German cars. GTIs were hard to come by used, so you pretty much had to grab the…

It doesn’t get love because the only good thing about it is the Audi 4.2. Otherwise it looks awful, heavy, ungainly, and all-around uninteresting. It has an awful name. It also has the distinction of appearing when the whole boutique supercar thing was starting to get out of hand, like it eventually did.

And I went to high school with a Koch whom, I’m just guessing, also had absolutely no blood relation to these guys, and who also pronounced his last name as “Cook”.