For those who miss real dials for the stereo, you can bring back those good finger-muscle-memories of turning on the tunes every time you put it in drive.

You want this car to go up against the Fusion and the Optima? Give us a name that's equally memorable. A lot of people are still thinking "that car that looks like the Sebring" when they hear 200. This isn't focus-group market research bullshit. This is me talking to my non-car friends when they ask me about which car…

To my knowledge, I have never seen a Wes Anderson film. May I ask what the deal is?

This is so right in so many ways.

I've seen about three episodes of Overhaulin' (just enough to get the premise), so this question comes from ignorance: Have you ever had an owner be upset about the mods you've made to their car?

Anything beats the "sleepy 'vette" tail lights of the early 5th-gens.

A couple scratches, and that says "2.8".

Ben Collins' company did driving, stunts, and consulting work for TG before, so you know the Stig denials are totally credible.

The question clearly said, "worthless."

What about "World's Fastest Zoetrope?" That ought to make the top five.

Zendax, we should party.

I've got a 5-speed now. I'm enough of a mechanical geek to see the appeal of CVTs, but I find driving them dissatisfying and a little disorienting.

Sounds like you had a car that taught you physics. That's a drivers' car.

That's pretty much what I had in mind. A continuous lever like an airplane throttle. The cool thing is you can spin up the motor in anticipation of needing power, e.g. for merging, instead of waiting for the computer to react to you. I don't think it would be so inefficient. If you knew the max efficiency, torque, and…

That's why I want a manually controlled yet fully continuous CVT. You know what you want before the car does, so you lower the gear ratio and increase your revs before/as you step on the gas. Everyone's happy.

The product of focus group testing, of course.

Sigh.

That whooshing sound is not just the open-top.

Bring on the manual CVTs.

Are you kidding? The whole top is open. The carbon monoxide could get in EASILY.