G. David Felt

Yet electric cars are still a commuter car only. Forget the Rich toy that has a supposedly 300 mile range, the current electric cars cannot take you on a cross country trip. End of story. We are at least 50 to 100 years away from a storage source for electric that can get you 500 miles on a charge and how to rapid recharge in minutes. They are a niche vehicle.

Freedom

Or they just spin in it!

Marketing can make or break a company. GM needs to wake up and brag about their engineering finesse and show the world that they build world class products in more than a niche ZR1 or some other specialty product.

So true that would be freakin awesome race. Course with the way the political correct morons are going with hiring cops to focus on telling everyone how to drive and when I doubt we will ever really see crazy races like this any more.

Still a small car for small people with an ackward style that I do not honestly see growing besides a niche market. Once the less expensive Mini wanna be's have their car, this will level off as I see bigger growth in the compact market, not this subcompact market. Just wait till the videos hit the web of people dying in this coffin on wheels that cannot handle being hit by an SUV let alone a Semi. So yes this is a race, but they sure do rollover and get pushed back on their wheels again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwd79lUI6kc&feature=player_detailpage 3 stars safety, would you really want a loved on in this car? http://www.autoweek.com/article/20111209/CARNEWS/111209872 Crash of one of the first Fiat solds in the US with less than a 1K miles on it. http://jalopnik.com/5799930/first-american-fiat-500-crashed-with-less-than-1k-miles Funny roll over in 500 by new student driver. http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/student-driver-crashes-and-flips-over-fiat-500-on-just-her-second-lesson-ar88261.html Amazing 500 accident photo's http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fiat+500+deaths&qpvt=Fiat+500+deaths&FORM=IGRE Yup, a car I would not want any of you driving, your life is worth far more to me than gas mileage.

That was freakin awesome, would love to give it a try to beat that record!

How can someone be so freakin stupid!!!

Do a custom job, get this truck in White with the equipment you want and then do a custom two tone paint job and achieve your same affect.

I will agree with you that the bill board is pretty funny!

The other thing one must ask is are they trying to cause a law suite with the R-spec? Is it nissan who has this same term for their performance auto's

So this kind of cat keeps the mice away????

I just do not get this! Why would I want an over rated too small awd Asian import when there are better American made auto's? I understand the whole gamer angle and how people seem to be caught up in this car, but to me it is just too small and a waste of money. Never will get the whole ricer car thing.

Interesting that some companies are focusing on using garbage and other sources for Ethanol productions rather than food stocks. http://www.e-energymarket.com/news/single-news/article/bluefire-ethanol-ready-to-reach-ambitious-goals.html Better yet is our own gov is showing that non-food based ethanol has a better energy rate and uses less supplied energy to create ethanol. http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_fuel_basics.html Time to kill the corn subsidies and let the farmers fight it out in a free market.

WOW, I never dream due to my narcolepsy and it must be amazing to dream. Keep em coming.

This thing is so not worth it, Maybe $500 as a potential part out rig, but rust has the upper hand based on the photo's and it would appear they took 4 tail gates and made a bed out of it again based on the photos. PASS/JEERS

Impressive list and yet I still feel that this car is just another Chevy competitor trying to say they have luxury. It is hard to describe, but looking at the car and reading the spec sheet, this is the first car that just leaves me with a vague blaw feeling.

I agree with you... except if you're parking in NYC (or another VERY tight metro), the dumb Smart seats a big guy better than a Cruze or Malibu and parks anywhere at a fraction of the hassle... and suddenly makes sense. I can understand it in that situation, and even though I like small cars, the A segment cars like Scion IQ, Smart, Fiat 500 are too small in my book. +1 they are all too small in my book too!

Ford must think they have the product to compete against Buick and yet they are farther from the truth than they realize. I suspect they need some major gutting of upper management. You know, those that have been sitting on their ass for the last 30 years.

Very true, if they do not move the needle, I think they will loose customers in numbers.

I am sure he would fit in a CTS or XTS far better than that Buick. Course non of us Shreks really fit into any car, just keep us in our Full Size SUV's.

I still think Honda is making a mistake here by putting this into a limited group of cars, they should do their whole product line and get this going sooner rather than later. Role it out car by car, but plan to have it out to all cars within 6 months.

While it could end up being a competitor, it also could end up being a pig as the luxury category seems to always want to start out doing a light weight version and then the It must have everything luxury on it and ends up being bloated. Should be interesting to see what happens considering that their style is anything but a style with the predator nose.

Big guys in little cars is just WRONG! in my book. I will never understand it. Yes - I agree 100%!! Here's another one to prove this point: That looks like the Buick, but no one can sit behind this guy I can promise you that.

Alternative Energy, what is the logical next step for America? Join me as I write about the various forms of alternative energy and how I see them stacking up in today’s market place. Green Fuel Ethanol / BioMass Touted as the answer to our high gas prices, ethanol is an alcohol based fuel derived from fermenting and distilling crops that are broken down into simple sugars.Ethanol fuel is mainly produced in the US by a company called Archer Daniels Midland, an agricultural giant with years of experience and investment in the Ethanol industry. This industry is supported by Billions of approved tax dollars and the legal requirement that Oil Company MUST buys a percentage of Ethanol and mixes it into regular gas.Ethanol was touted as a cheaper form of fuel with an acceptable smaller amount of energy per gallon or BTU’s.The problem with Ethanol production or the issue is that ethanol production is supported by energy produced with Coal Power, which is the dirtiest form of energy. The question asked then is why is a clean fuel being hailed as such a wonder when it has to use the dirtiest form of energy production to produce it?The EPA has recently in the past few years had to tighten down restrictions on Ethanol plants due to the excessive spewing of chemicals that are dangerous to the environment and known to cause cancer in humans. Sadly the EPA since 2004 has Ethanol listed as a major source of Pollution. This has been pushed down into the bowls to be seen only by people driven to see testing results for alternative fuels production but the details are on the EPA web site.It is clear that in our search to move away from oil dependence and find new green fuels that we are polluting in new ways or at least other ways when it comes to production. So where do we stand when it comes to Ethanol? Does the subsidy really make sense to pay these companies billions to make a fuel that now on average costs $2.13 a gallon but without the subsidy would cost equal to gasoline and has less power and pollutes equal to if not greater when you factor in the coal power required to make it?This does not take into account the added cost put on Corn as a food source since a required amount of corn must be sold and used for production of Ethanol. Currently a bushel of corn is over $8 per bushel and a We have a problem on our hands and it is time we step up and truly move to an alternative form of Green Energy. Is it algae, fruit based ethanol, Biodiesel, CNG, Solar, Electric, Hydrogen (Cold Fusion), wind or just what is the next logical step for the US to take? Over the next few months I will attempt to review both renewable and non renewable energy!