How is V8olvo pronounced? Why didn't you christen it Volv8?

@LotusGrrl: I'm still waiting to see a first-gen Saturn VUE with a POWERED BY HONDA sticker across the top of the windshield.

I will say that I caught Patrick's appearance on The Late Show following her win and it was almost painful to watch.

I just checked that Web page again. A different picture now accompanies the article and the text in the article now reads race car driver Sarah Fisher, a leading woman driver on the Indy car circuit. (That doesn't change the fact that she's second-best of just three and the the third doesn't race often.)

Matt didn't mention here that in my email, I speculated the Times writer was just regurgitating something put out by the Clinton campaign.

As for fuel, how about rationing it? It was done during WWII.

@DannyBN: Margaret Thatcher didn't have to attempt "to force millions of families into bankruptcy by forcing them to buy health insurance they don't want or can't afford" because the UK has socialized medicine.

@sp00nix ["Why does grandma have 22"s and thoes fake Buick style accents on the fenders?"]: Maybe she bought the SUV used and it already had those.

@kimsama ["The cops in the clip told the little boy that the grandmother would have to pay for it."]: Although I believe they are in this case, cops are not always right when they tell you what the law says. Sometimes they err and other times they lie.

@JustZoot ["I'm pretty sure grandma is letting him be charged with grand theft auto so her car insurance will pay for the damages..."]: Again, IANAL, but it could go the other way; when reporting your car stolen, perhaps you get off the hook for any damages that occur after it was taken. Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, Florida doesn't require auto insurance.

Can anyone tell me how wealthy a neighborhood Palm Beach Gardens is? I'm wondering how likely the kid's family has enough insurance and money to compensate all the people whose property he damaged.

That acronym is so tortured, it must've been coined by a member of China's Communist Party.

@Starlton Heston: Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't do anything that SYNC does, and vice versa. Also, I believe the SYNC trademark belongs to Microsoft, not Ford, so once the exclusivity clause of Ford's deal with Microsoft ends, other auto manufacturers will be able to offer SYNC and call it SYNC.

@danio3834: I once read that if cures were found for all fatal illnesses, the average life expectancy would be "only" somewhere between five and six hundred years (I forgot the exact number) due to accidents.

So Shelby didn't send the press release to Jalopnik? That explains why you trash Carroll Shelby in this post.

@pferde_schwanz: I still haven't forgotten that an Audi exec described the future A1 as a car that a man would not be embarrassed to be seen in on the rare occasions he borrows it from his daughter.

@abgwin, hanakimi: The EU and Turkey currently have what is called a customs union.

Some people take issue with the continuing, vehement refusal of Turks (government and populace alike) to acknowledge the massacre of Armenians around the time of WWI. True, some Japanese are the same way regarding their military's atrocities in China during WWII, but it seems to me that the intransigence in Japan is comparatively much less prevalent.

It's a matter of perception and perhaps the only way for this perception to get changed is for the public to see female athletes who pose succeed in their sports.