"This is like when you have a toddler, and he hates peas, and he won't eat peas, and he won'tlook at peas, and you tell him the peas are chocolate, and then suddenly he likes them."

"They're used to the poopbutt in the driver's seat getting credit for everything from people who don't quite understand what rally is, and that's just part of the game. "

That's cool. In slightly related news, Congress also approved an automobile stipend to itself in the amount of up to 1k per month for each member of the House and Senate.

For those of you who scrolled down to the bottom looking for one final number, here it is: $8,500 in depreciation plus $4,629.81 in maintenance repairs for a grand total of $13,129.81. In other words: I paid about $1,100 per month to drive this car, or $39.90 per day, or $2.61 per mile.

This is excellent. I hope it's 400 hp to the front wheels.

Why can't we all just get along?

Before I became so drunk that the asparagus mouse exited the way it had entered, I once listened to Chris Bangle deliver an after-dinner speech about cars, and the industry that produces them. It was the most lucid, percipient talk of its type I've ever heard – well, at least I remember thinking that before I blew…

The CBC reports that the driver of this Huracan got nailed going 102 km/h in a 50 km/h zone, or about 60 mph in a 30 mph area. The driver, 30, got a $368 speeding ticket and three demerit points on his license — and a seven-day impound.

You're right. I suppose I should just get on with it and be happy with the niblets that Volvo decides to shave off the concept and stick on their other models. I'm still getting over the WRX concept too. So, so sad that Subie didn't sack up and do it.

You're 100% right. This business plan makes perfect sense. However, in my personal fairytale land, this exact concept car would be built and would sell a bagillion units. Also, the President is Raffi.

Man I love that blue

Dear Volvo,

Ahlakitalot

But enough picking on Porsche, because they're far from the worst. My personal favorite is the new Range Rover Plug-In Hybrid, which isn't out yet in the States. Thank God. I say this because the new plug-in Range Rover is capable of traveling… wait for it… yes, that's right, ONE MILE on electric power alone, before…

It's an aesthetic choice. I get that. You actually bring up a good question for another story: which cars have way too much badging, and look worse for it?

That's fair enough.

I bet debadging on a performance car is probably bad for resale most of the time though. It screams "I've wrung the piss out of this car too many times to count because it's my own personal race car and I can do whatever the hell I want with it. It's not a BMW because I took the badges off. It's MY CAR." That might…

My palms are sweating just watching that.

4 SALE: LIKE-NEW S2000 NEVER BEEN TRACKED, CREAMPUFF 1ST OWNER LOW MILES. NEW TIRES.

I happen to be a certified ILE, and I'm a bagillion-percent positive this was first degree murder. Open and shut case. There's a secret audiotape of Tony Stewart's internal monologue the moment he hit Mr. Ward that implicates him completely, but the government won't admit it exists. Just ask this scientician: