This. Also, 10% is a conservative estimate. I'd say for most cars, you're looking at 20% as soon as it rolls off the lot, and 30-35% by the end of the first year.

Yeah, Connery and Craig are leagues ahead of the others. I'm not even sure how I'd rank the rest . . . probably Brosnan, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton?

My favorite vehicle in a Bond movie is a toss-up between the Citroen Traction Avant in From Russia With Love, and the Renault Fuego's appearance in A View to a Kill. Coupled with the cut-in-half-but-still-driving-without-a-gas-tank Renault 11, it was a good movie for Renault fans. Far from my favorite Bond movie,…

Double post.

Let's see . . . I'm gonna Benjamin Franklin this thing:

True, there may be information the team has shared with the FIA that it hasn't made public. But I would still caution against reading anything into Marussia's statement that the car wasn't the problem. If there was a serious problem with the car that caused the injury, they will continue to deny, deny, deny.

Anybody who believes, without question, Marussia's statement that there was no fault with the car is either naive, unaware of F1 history, predisposed to misogyny, or all of the above.

Sure, go try that on a car with directional tires and staggered sizes and let me know how that works out.

1. Nissan Juke

I wonder if he was listening to the Surf Punks at the time...

While I agree that Alonso will never be anybody's #2, I also think he's grown up a lot since the McLaren debacle. These days, he's got an almost Schumacheresque way about him: he never gives up, he has the team behind him on an emotional level, and he manages to get better results than the car deserves.

Ferrari are rank amateurs when it comes to chasing out incredibly talented world champions. Frank Williams FTW!

I miss the way R&T and C/D used to be back in the '80s, when nearly every issue was a good read, cover-to-cover. Now all the buff books are pretty much like Motor Trend has been all along: heavy on so-so (or worse writing), advertising supplements, and other filler, light on original content. Every magazine has the…

People on the interstate who wait until the very last second to merge when a lane is closed. These are the people who think their time is so much more important than everyone else's that even though there is typically somewhere between a half-mile and mile's distance to merge over, they go zinging past everyone who…

When I still subscribed to R&T, Side Glances was the first thing I flipped to. Any other articles authored by Egan were next. Everything else came a distant third.

You and me both. Without Egan, there is no reason to read R&T. I'm glad somebody at Hearst realized that.

"Because there is no mention made of the car being stolen, we're left to assume the young driver of this Dart was somehow related to a Dodge dealer in the area who's currently having a very bad day."

Depends on what you're looking for. A steal of a deal is *not* going to be found on BAT, eBay, or anything else with national exposure—too many people looking = high likelihood of market price (a/k/a an average deal). BAT is good for out-of-the-ordinary stuff, but only offers a small slice of the weird/fun cars out…

So he's claiming to have $6K "invested" in this thing? Inbreeding is a hell of a drug...

I would love to drive that black diamond around the streets of Detroit Rock City, but the price tells me it's cold gin time again...