The engine and rolling stock are both federalized, so the cost is little to none. The cost of supporting a niche car (inventory, distributionmarketing, spares, dealer training and support) might be too cost prohibitive in the wide country of ours.

"We show the car, we look at the response, we first introduce the Golf R [hatchback], and then we have the option to play with it later," says Volkswagen of America president Michael Horn. "There's the option. This R SportWagen will help us with the image and getting a little bit of spice in the Golf family when we…

They used to carry mid-range vehicles of each class, and then turned them around at 30-40k miles. They currently buy stripped out vehicles. Like the Not Even camry LE models.

To add....I got my parents an upgrade to a Corvette Z06 via hertz once. They rented Full size at 35/day. My dad could care less.

Typically they go 1-20k in airport locations (business customers), 20-30 in neighborhood locations (weekend/loaner car customers).

I was rocking a rental 2014 Touareg (V6 only) this last weekend for 24 bucks/day. I just had to brag.

Supposedly the S90/V90/V90CC coming sometime next year will borrow heavily from that design.

"It (Volvo) is like a tiger in the mountains," he (Li Shufu, CEO of Geely) says. "It shouldn't be in a cage in a zoo."

So, just a giant version of the yellow ribbon that you see on the back of cars. Like those car magnets, this is tacky public self promotion.

I will assume uber drivers are equally skilled......

My office shares the same parking lot as one of Elon Musk's company here in the bay. All the Teslas are boring colors. Black and hues of silver. If someone is the type that's going to buy a groundbreaking car, that defies convention; you'd think they'd be more "creative" than that.

That first picture w/ the black wheels gave me shivers. That one shot alone should justify that color.

V6 auto, stock. Rental car?

I bet you most people will be too embarrassed to BT her album on account of being sued by the RIAA over a shitty album.

if tesla dropped car prices by 5-10k for spec, I'd order a S85d w/ tech package this week

That's true too. The comet 2 onwards had much smaller "porthole" style windows, as not to concentrate stress on the corners like the square windows did. But to this day, the windows you see are some variant of circles (ovals mostly) as to prevent such issue from ever happening again.

Though it wasn't the size of the windows, but rather the square shape that caused the Hull losses.

That's great, and I hope it stays that way. But your experience does not negate the ownership experience of others. That said, I would still consider it if they had a lifetime maxcare on the ecodiesels.

Why is there Fox-News levels of denial here? Just because it doesn't fit your world view?

Very much so. Do you ever read Jeep Garage? I was looking at an Overland EcoDiesel, and the forums just have turned me off of it. The sheer number of issues are hilarious.