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Oh really? In 4 years you guys will be comparing the Dart unfavorably with its replacement and calling it a POS. No thanks. Pontiac should have stayed Firebird-GTO-Solstice-G8... (and marketed properly)... these will be remembered fondly 20 years later... which is like Dodge with only the Viper, Charger and Challenger.

Well, I wonder if in the battle to reduce/limit weight if parts of the car that are not touched in the usual crash tests are being skimped on... I would expect the firewall to have more strength than the two split Camaros have exhibited.

I wish someone in Cali would sponsor a bill that renames Zero Emissions Vehicle as a Mostly Relocated Emissions Vehicle (It still outgases when newer and leaves rubber behind... and obviously the power it uses creates emissions at the electric plant).

Just off the top of my head... Sebring Daytona Eldorado (though it is technically mythical and should be El Dorado) Pontiac is a place... but its not what Pontiac is named after.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit... a lot of garages built after 1975 are not well thought out. My fullsize '89 van BARELY cleared my garage door... if I unloaded it completely, it would hit... and the '95 Caprice wagon barely fits lengthwise. My GF's garage barely fits her '04 Corolla, width-wise... I was going to test fit my '99 Bonne, but the approach is so deep, no GM car I know of can negotiate it without tearing off the exhaust and grinding up the dirty bits. I would need to install hydraulics.

The pole hit the outside of the Camaro's frame... and simply sheared off everything outboard of the frame member. Since no one object is heavy enough to stop the energy, it just snapped its way through a lot of material that didn't put up a fight... likely until it hit the firewall... and even then, it probably stopped at one of the underbody crossbraces. The other split open Camaro was similar... so perhaps it wasn't going as fast as we think... still fast, but not crazy fast... had the pole hit 3 inches closer to the centerline, the accident would have likely been no where as extreme.

I'm so sick of the bodystyle name game, that I'm just calling things whatever I feel like... 4 doors... appliance. Shorter than 180 inches... ****box. Unibody SUV... minivan. CUV... retarded wagon wannabe. ;-)

Like the new commercial sez... "Is it safe*? Oh Yeah, It's a Volkswagon!" * - Safe only applies in certain situations that make VW look superior. Crossfox not evaluated for Safe claim.

Definately not a Smart. A Smart would have bounced off the truck... sure everyone would have had terrible injuries, but the cage would have stayed intact. That looks very Asian to me, but it could be a whole host of tiny, not-for-NA cars...

I like how Foose can draw a '67 Chevelle or '57 Chevy perfectly, but not get the Cruze proportions right... I like the longer trunk... too bad the rear wheel is totally misplaced. Foose should have gone 'West Coast Customs' on the Cruze and made it a coupe.

Mythbusters actually did polish a turd... granted, a very selective turd, but a turd, nonetheless. Its a sedan... Its a Chevy color... yeah, Comets can be made to go fast and viewed as a musclecar today, but when they came out, NOBODY would consider them to be a hot ride... nothing but smogged motors. Jeers. There is a diarrhea brown Comet sedan bumping around Dyker Heights Brooklyn that looks better (and more period with a vinyl roof) and can likely be bought for $900.

I'm sick and tired of those Canadian and Mexico built cars being passed off as US made because people don't know the difference between the United State and America. Hecho en Mexico... blah.

Well, it sucks because failblog absorbed all the car fails... and they seem to post fewer car fails overall.

But thats because the compact packaging allows the maker to chop 4-8 inches out of the car... that leg room that disappears is only noticed by certain long legged people... which don't include the females pushing 55% of those auto decisions. The non-transverse mounting only give you some extra legroom because space would otherwise be wasted on the sides of the rear of the transaxle housing.

What I find funny is these were 30 years ahead of their time, with the stubby trunk. If GM would have made the trunk a bit taller... ...Well, it would still have been an awkward car.

My only gripe with the Tucker... no coupe. :-(

Is the '57 DeSoto custom? It was my understanding that dual headlights was not made legal until the 1958 model year.

Sometimes its better to buy a used car that DEFINITELY has something wrong with it and fixing it. A car with a bad head gasket can be in great shape and it worth little more than scrap... but a weekend and a head gasket or even a whole engine and suddenly the whole car is worth 3x what you bought the pile of parts for.

On the whole, I think that may be the most unnecessary thing I've seen in a while. A video screen is easier to use if its in front of you... turning your torso to put both hands on the screen makes my back ache just thinking about it. Plus, you put the window down (yeah, I know, relatively unheard of today), your video screen is gone. And, of course, I'm not even going to start on the idea of raising a generation of passengers that need to be entertained every 7 seconds of their lives. Does this video window come with a vomit bag for the car sickness its going to cause?

Well, few small ones have directional motors... but I realize the big ones have motors... but my point is that if you add a wind lens, you are essentially adding a big sail... and you need a much larger motor to point the whole apparatus and keep it steady in shifting winds. On the local wind farm, http://www.acua.com/acua/content.aspx?id=492&ekmensel=c580fa7b_20_88_btnlink, the wind lens would be about 250ft by 250ft... and would weigh... wild guess here... 40~50 tons... and its wind load would be astronomical in a storm... so now you need to seriously beef up the center support... a motor to control the rotation is just going to be massive. I'm not sure you can get much lower to the ground (assuming thats what you mean by 'lee')... the best wind is high and having 100 foot blades sweeping close to the ground is its own hazard. Do they have photos of the testing? I would like to see a real life photo of what they have in mind... and the exact scale.

Would be cool.. but awkward at tollbooths, parking garage exits, and drive thrus... Speaking of RHD Cadillacs, I saw a RHD UK plated current style CTS sedan in Denver last summer... Checker's drive thru has a left AND right side. Best part, is to my knowledge, there is no actual law requiring LHD vehicles in this country.

My experience is that most public auto "auctions" are just normal dealers selling cars as an "auction" with big reserves. Sometimes government auctions have some good cars, but you can't start them and the people who show up bid them to the moon. Any decent auto auction require special licensing to get in, but your state may be different. I'm not saying don't look into it, but set your expectations accordingly.

Perhaps when the wind is off by a few degrees, but I don't see how this will work if the wind is at a 90 degree to the direction of the turbine... so they would have to rotate with the unit. therefore, these must be huge AND lightweight. I don't foresee this holding up in nasty weather. Even the existing wind units need to be locked down in high winds. I'd think these wind lenses would require the entire windmill duck out of the weather somehow (space shuttle sized enclosure or a giant hole to drop into?) Worse, if the wind lens did flex or come loose and the turbine blades made contact, massive destruction would result. I just think this will only work small scale... like home turbines.

The problem is that this legislation WILL continue to return in different/diluted forms until it passes quietly while people are gearing up for the iPhone 5, Xbox720, PS4 or something. The way politics seems to work nowadays is like trying to sneakily boil a frog. Throw him in boiling water, and he'll jump out... but put him in cool water and slowly turn the heat up and he'll stay put until he cooks. I know it will return because we are forcing things like DMCA, ACTA, and preemptively SOPA and PIPA on our trade partners and allies.

No, buyers in the US are abandoning medium~largish FWD cars for small FWD 4cyl generics. The RWD large car buyers are all firmly entrenched in fullsize trucks. This didn't happen in Australia due to their lack of CAFE dictating to GM that RWD large cars can't have more than 307 cubic inches of noise and no power. Instead, in Australia, the price of petrol makes it so only people needing trucks buy them... and people wanting to save on gas can get a V6 powered RWD large car or people wanting performance can still get a V8 in the large car.