With apologies to David Lowery,

"Volkswagen says they have no plans to produce the Cross Coupé concept."

For you, then. When I was a kid, a guy down the street had one of these. Between looking at that thing everyday and my steady diet of CARtoons Magazine, it was no wonder that all of the drawings of cars scribbled in my junior-high notebooks had a caricature-ish quality about them.

But you're the one saying that the cost of the parts he put into this project somehow takes it out of the crack-pipe realm. Sorry, but as much as I like AMC Eagles, I can't agree with you. This is one of those neither-fish-nor-fowl situations where the guy is never gonna get close to the money he's sunk into it,…

And what is the maxim of any project car (or race car) build? "You'll never be able to sell it for what you've got into it."

"Gauges" and "Taurus": those two words seem to be the bane of every Craigslist sellers' existence.

I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of people who would like to buy or build something this ridiculous. Unfortunately for Todd, I think he's going to find out that he's the only one that would spend more than a couple of grand doing it.

Don't really see the point in this thing. Yes, it's a Power Wagon. Yes, it has a Cummins, big-ass axles, and all the mod cons.

This is a good-looking wagon, if a little generic-Audi-ish from the rear 3/4 view.

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As a much younger man, I once did a 19-hour stint behind the wheel using a basically non-stop infusion of coffee, No-Doz, and Mountain Dew. Stopping in a rest area in the middle of Iowa at four in the morning, I found myself laughing maniacally at a poster advertising Eddie Rabbitt playing at a state fair. I looked…

Also the Cossie Sierra. Not to mention the greatest drawback here in LHD land: passing on two-lane roads in a RHD car often requires seriously over-sized gonads.

Personally, I worry a lot more about the long-term functionality of lane-change-avoidance systems, self-braking-systems, auto-parallel-park, and other systems that actually take over control of the car from the driver than I do about a camera system that does not and cannot override the driver's inputs. The rear…

Where are you pulling these numbers from—your own rear end??? 5 pounds for a little camera and a few feet of wire (assuming that all new cars have some kind of CAN-BUS setup which does not require running dedicated wire from the camera to the display) added to hardware that already exists in virtually every new car? …

Only if you never back up after you start driving. So yeah, if you're about to back out of your driveway, you check before you get in. If you're already driving, then in some vehicles you're dealing with a massive blind spot to the rear and getting out to check it is often not really an option.

I know. But unfortunately, its "cutting edge" styling may influence more mainstream vehicles that people actually will buy.

And the way vehicle design/styling is going, it won't be fixed by anything short of having a spotter outside the vehicle, telling the driver when the coast is clear. That's what I do when I've got an enclosed trailer hitched to the back of my vehicle and I'm trying to back up. Unfortunately, people don't always have…

"If you are going back, you should be looking where you are going." Right. And many passenger cars have beltlines/trunklines so high that small objects (including small people a/k/a children) literally cannot be seen. The rearview camera allows people to "look" where they are going when their view out the back…

Oh, and this, too.

I guess I'm just looking at this from a different point of view. I say let the stylists who design these cars with such terrible visibility get backed over by one of their creations and let's see how quickly they start dropping beltlines and increasing glass area. Then let the auto journalists who fail to criticize…