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No kidding. Only $650 for a pretty slick ~300 hp convertible with 340 ftlb !! That's an 80 ftlb increase! Add a straight pipe and you have a 13.2 sec quarter mile, and you're getting about 30 mpg! And the Sky/Solstice does not look bad by any means.

This is HOT! GM is finally figuring it out. I understand the interior in the Solstice is crap material and poorly designed layout ... perhaps that will change soon. Too bad, because at the $33k price point, the Sky/Solstice compete with a fully-optioned Nissan 370Z. Still, if styling is more important to you than interior, then you have a lot of options for a two-seater all of the sudden.

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Yes, considering price/performance you have a real bargain in the G8, especially the GXP variant. But of course, the G8 GXP is drool worthy only in the same way the Cobalt SS, whereas the M5 simply leaves you speechless per the reviewer's phrasing. "That much power in that package?!" or "That power and package!"

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For the size I think it is very impressive. Same economy as the Prius in a more classic sedan shape, along with a larger interior for passengers. If I were looking for a hybrid, (and having never driven any of the options) this would be my choice above the Prius, Camry, and Accord, and Civic options (the Accord was discontinued now, of course). That is assuming this will come in around $25k. Ford products have really gone up in quality over the last couple of years, and I would have laughed if you had told me two years ago that I would make that statement today.

Diesel is influenced by different demand characteristics and processed using different methods.

Less is really the overarching goal of sustainable living. Our objective should be to buy a product that will last as long as possible until a replacement is needed, thus making it a renewable product. If we buy, for instance, a wooden rocking chair, we should not have to replace it until a tree planted the same day the chair was made has grown large enough to produce enough lumber to make the chair again.
This should be the objective of every purchase, although this is of course impractical at this point. Technological advances should be aimed at making this more power and space efficient (such as computers using less power and less silicon).
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Looks like a lot of fun. Not sure that it will do zero to sixty as quickly as an Elise, but it looks like it will have acceleration enough for city driving and merging/passing. Impressive prospective design. If it were closer to $35,000 instead it would be pretty interesting. I hope they use pretty standard components, because otherwise replacing a spark-plug or timing belt might become a real problem. Anyone know if the engine is a standard motorbike engine?
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No matter what harmless substance you pump in large amounts into a small environment it will likely kill things off. Systems contain highly focused environmental balances such as salinity, oxygenicity, temperature, etc. and if those variables become unbalanced living organisms will suffer. Sure, nitrogen gas is innocuous, but if our atmosphere were 98% nitrogen we would all suffocate, just as these fish did when their water became highly glycerated.
Toxicity or not, balance is the issue. Completely idiotic way to attack the biodiesel trend, there are many more legitimate and scientifically viable ways to attack biodiesel.

Well, there's my Aston Martin DBS for significantly less money! I'll buy one.

Actually, it would be very easy to determine the speed of the vehicle in the video. All you need is to identify the size of any object in the frame, such as a road sign, sewer cap, or the vehicle itself, and use that to create a virtual yardstick to which the car's motion relative to a stationary point can be measured between frames. You then have an instant velocity for any instant in the video or as small a period as 1/24th of a second. It's an extremely simple thing to do, and no "official witness" made-up legal jargon is needed.