I'm an equal-opportunity complainer, and if anything, the Camaro draws more of my wrath than the other two combined. It absolutely is cartoonish and a poor design to boot: a ridiculous beltline, terrible outward visibility, and so-so ergonomics.

"But if Chrysler released a radically different design and called it challenger you'd still be here bitching that it doesn't look like the old one."

You may get tired of it, but it was Chrysler that decided to slavishly mimic the style of the old Challenger when creating the new one, so it's an argument you're going to keep hearing with respect to all of the neo-ponycars unless and until the designers remember how to have original thoughts. And that's my…

No great loss. The more Challengers I see on the road, the less I like them. They're too big overall, and they're waaaay too tall/narrow. Saturday afternoon, I was on the freeway behind a Volvo V70 and a Challenger passed us on the left. As it passed the V70, I observed that it not only appeared to be narrower…

Searching the ol' memory banks, trying to remember the cheapest non-parts-car I've ever bought, I was just about to answer with the running, driving '87 Corolla FX16 I bought for $250. Then I remembered the $75.00 1980 Scirocco (actual car not pictured!) I bought at the local Volunteers of America auction. It was…

Or it could be described as environmentally responsible, depending on where your priorities are. Fracking has caused serious aquifer pollution/contamination, and we're all aware of the potential environmental consequences of underwater drilling.

Not sure if you're trolling at this point or just have reading comprehension issues.

But only if the increased supply exceeds the increased demand. With no end in sight for China's (and others') increased consumption, the idea that fracking, etc., will reduce prices at the pump by approximately 35% is pretty fanciful. Unless part of Gingrich's or Santorum's plans is to restrict the sale of domestic…

I'll start fracking underneath the corner gas station and see if I can "discover" any petrol reserves. Then I'll build a pipeline to my septic tank so I've got someplace to store my newly liberated fossil fuels. Of course, I'll have to disconnect my sewer line to the septic tank, but that's cool, I'll just start…

He has! And since he and I are going to be best friends, he said I can be the first one to come up and play in his treehouse on the moon when he's finished building it!

My point exactly. Unless Gingrich and Santorum are planning on restricting the sale of these allegedly vast reserves of American petroleum to Amercian consumers, then Big Oil is just going to sell it to the highest bidders in the global market. So we'll end up exporting loads of oil to China, whose demand is…

Thank you, Mr. Frawley, for getting #1 absolutely right. I know there's a lot of McQueen love among Jalops, but PLN had him covered and then some.

Tim Allen occasionally drives race cars, it is true. But he is not a good racing driver. Can't vouch for Dempsey's skills, but Allen certainly didn't belong in the top ten.

Boy, I detect a lot of "based on one geological survey" and "based on one estimate" kind of language in Newt's "promise." Call me crazy, but if I were trying to develop a viable national energy policy, I wouldn't be relying on *one* survey or *one* estimate.

I hear Clapton was going to have the famed coachbuilders Pressed Rat & Warthog build him a one-off, but they had closed down their shop. They didn't want to, 'twas all they had got. Selling gold-plated Italias, Maranellos that had been beat. And Pressed Rat's collection of dog-leg gearboxes and seats. Sadly they…

It's generally taught by racing/HPDE instructors that fast drivers have slow hands. Less chance of disrupting the car or having to correct/re-correct, and much more fast and fluid when you have slow hands.

For some reason, I'm mostly unable to write without sarcasm lately. So yes, there's humor there—I find it amusing that oil-rich Alaska has higher pump prices than oil-bereft Michigan. I find it amusing that Gingrich and Santorum are promising cheap gas as an inducement to vote for them (you'd think these kind of…

1st gear: obviously Obama's fault for singlehandedly cockblocking the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Vote Gingrich and we'll have $2/gallon gas everywhere Americans go, including the moon colonies.

Back in my teenage years, $28000 CDN might have been a nice price for this car. Of course, back then, $28000 CDN was like $750 USD. Or $10 USD. Something like that.

Have you ever seen Tim Allen race? The guy is a hack and doesn't belong in the top 100, let alone the top ten.