Hopefully the answer is: hell no!

With regards to the car's appearance, I didn't care much for it at first but as I spent more time looking at it, it does look decent from some angles. I think that's true of the current crop of cars with their sculpted and chiseled avant-garde styling; BMW, Toyota, Acura, Cadillac, etc. Gone are the cars with smooth and flowing organic lines... cars that looked right from every angle. Hopefully, the trend will change once again. I'm tired of cars that look good only from certain vantage points and awfully awkward from the rest.

But the question posed is which CAR company it helps.

Realistically, in order to nudge them towards products that have both performance and economy, we'd all have to trade performance for economy for now to create demand/incentive towards efficient vehicles in their entire product lines. Only then will we begin to see offerings that has power and efficiency.

I believe you are correct, sir.

Step away from the pitch forks folks. It's nothing more than corporate lawyers earning their keep.

On arctic drilling, it takes 10 to 20 years to bring a site online. Wouldn't make much difference if we had started drilling when GW wanted to. Even his own energy peeps have said the same.

The team does bear some responsibility, but ultimately it's the job of the guy behind the wheel to pay attention to that light at pit exit. It's there for a reason. A simple case of not paying attention. IIRC, Sutil made the same mistake recently during practice.

Didn't seem bad? Are you kidding me? Even though the commentators were the same as Speed's coverage, there was no pre-race show, post-race coverage was cut short (with commentators talking over each other) to make time for useless infomercials and the coverage itself was interrupted by 3 times as many commercial breaks. I would gladly give up HD for better content.

In comparason to Speed's usual coverage, it was crap. And Speed's isn't that great to begin with.

"OMG, I still suck?"

Whisky Tango Foxtrot!

Lay off the crack, Griffin.

"Do people still drink & drive?"

Are people still stupid?

Ignore, drive on through.

typo, Maplethrope.

Z3 styling is classic roadster. Z4 is just different/shock value. Like Mapletrope's photography. Nothing special, they just make you uncomfortable.

Because a Lotus, while having the performance, lacks creature comforts and still retains a hefty price tag. It may be your thing, but the Lotus is very niche. Apples to oranges.

O RLY?

Simple. Put Rosanne Bar behind the wheel. Problem solved, you don't need to be hatting anymore. You can go on with your life.

Good point. Ferrari has decades of F1 history to brag about. Lamborghini has what? a spat with Enzo eons ago and door wedge like styling.

Giving latin men everywhere a bad name: Pedro de la Rosa.

Please allow me to explain advertising.

In a corporate conference room...

Ice Cream Exec: We've got this new product, Bahli Bahli, we need to sell to young boys.

Ad Agency: Yes, sir! We'll take an existing ad, name it with some fancy advertising words so you'll think it's new and innovative... and you'll love it!

Ice Cream Exec: Don't disappoint me. This is very important.

Back at the agency:

Creative Director: you guys, we (meaning you) need to hit this one out the park, so that I can justify my overly high salary.

Creative team: Got it! What do boys like? Drifting! We'll drift the ice cream bar on a race track. It'll be totally awesome.

Creative Director: Brilliant! (with a hand gesture).

Back at the corporate conference room...

Creative Director: It wasn't easy, but I cam up with this... (plays tape)

Ice Cream Exec: Brilliant (with a different hand gesture), but make the logo bigger!

I'm not Corvette bashing here. The domestic automakers need to not take the lazy engineer's brute force approach to make halo cars. It should exemplify the very best thinking they have and take no short-cuts.

In the end they will end up with a truly impressive product that will improve their brands, and the consumers get better products.

Would you say no to a ZR-1 that is better than what it is now in every way?