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Smk, what we're talking about is more variants on each nameplate. Too many of today's care are available in one bodystyle.

The gas tank on a normal car is far back on the undercarriage and there are plenty of parts ahead of it that hang lower to catch debris and take the hit before it hits the tank... many of which are thick, pliable, non-brittle plastic (that cannot spark if ruptured) that can take a hell of a beating before rupturing. This particular Tesla weakness, part of a list as you all know, is a serious one. One never knows when there is going to be unavoidable debris on the highways... and this car gets immolated by road debris! Not safe... no matter what Elon Musk says or how it is spun on the Tesla blog. At least three fires that we know of with Tesla... all those Fiskers lost to fire in Sandy due to high water... even the Volt fire due to a leaking battery. Electric cars pose a threat that has not been adequately addressed. And I am not sorry to say so.

Why must you and booyah resort to speaking in tongues? This is different and you know it.

Congratulations on it! Is that Atlantis Blue? Good color.

The physics are the same, but a normal car would have survived the same hit. The Tesla blog story is nothing but spin. Clearly. You can see that, right?

1997 Pontiac Sunrunner

Studebaker Starlight coupe

Ford Galaxie. The spelling is corrupted, but I think it fits in the thread, right?

Mr. Elon Musk: the real world sucks when you're an arrogant dreamer. I am fairly certain that if I ran over a trailer hitch in my VW, I'd do some damage... but it would be fixable.

Skylark Sun Coupe

We run into that a lot. Insurance company field estimators are told to write as cheap as possible, and put the responsibility on the shop to supplement any wrong, missed, or hidden damage. Nothing new there. I can't tell by looking at the top picture if I would have written to repair or replace that hood. If it is buckled at the crush zone, it should not be repaired. Raise your hood and look at the underside outer edges about halfway back, there should be a factory buckle there, that, if bent more than an undamaged hood, it should be replaced. It is a weak spot engineered in for safety purposes, and once it is compromised, it is much weaker. If your shop is good, they will get everything taken care of and get Allstate to pay them the supplemental damages, once you sign a Direction Of Pay form, allowing them to do so. If there is no structural damage, this claim may not appear on Carfax. Carfax is a scam, imo, because some insurance companies don't report damage to Carfax... and if the customer pays cash for body repairs and doesn't use his or her insurance, then for sure that damage will never be reported to Carfax, to appear on a vehicle record. If the repairs are done correctly, there should not be a significant hit to resale value. When I wrecked my Sierra, it did not appear on Carfax... either time. Where I worked at the time, we had a subscription, and I continually checked it for months afterward. I used Progressive Insurance.

Well I hope the next Cruze hatch has a more proportionate design than the current model. I think it's a good idea to bring it... Focus hatches have proliferated. Chevy still needs a compact coupe, too, and it should be something that is not flash-in-the-pan trendy. Impala wagon anyone? I'd love to see a rendering of an Impala wagon... leading to a production version. Home-grown reply to Transit Connect is an awesome idea. To Ford, if this pans out: "Rutroh Rastro!" I'm spacing out thinking of this "black hole pickup truck"... not sure, based on the text above, what that means. And by saying Buick's flagship will be a more beautiful Panamera, he's giving himself PLENTY of leeway/snark.

I blame Canada. No one else.

Nope, was thinking of Prius and Citation, among others.

Well, I guess it's just not shocking any more. Sigh, another day, another Tesla fire... BFD, huh?

Clogged streets coming...

Love the car... now I'm worried. M/T COTY has been cursed in the past, just sayin'...

It's about time our favorite bisexual, gender-bending Norse god weighed in on this.

Farewell, FJ Cruiser! Don't let the door hit you in the...

Nice rainbow sticker...

NOT ANOTHER ONE!?

Happy Birthday to our BMOC. Have a good one, sir.