that's a good point, I used to work for a large computer company testing out their huge rack servers. I plugged in and unplugged 220V outlets all day long and never had any trouble with the plugs. It actually is a lot easier to plug/unplug 220V plugs than regular 120VAC plugs, there's no resistance when you mate the plugs, then you twist to lock them. They're made of solid chunks of plastic and make a nice satisfying clunk noise when you plug them in. I would have no problems having a standard 220V plug on my car. But I'm guess they went with this design because they also need to be able to connect the 120V cable to the same port. Having any kind of adapter on the market that converts a 120V service to a 220V plug would be kind of dangerous I would think.

you mean the Chevy Volt?

"200 hp and 145 lb-ft"

That doesn't seem right... the 1998 2.5rs had more power than that.

Also the rendering looks like a yaris got rear ended by a civic... I mean come on Subaru has been boring lately but not THIS boring.

their polarizing lens was not kind to those windows

Forza 2 graphics made the cars look too shiny and new and the grass
and dirt look like an n64 game. So of course Turn 10's solution is
to make the cars shinier and add some pretty mountains off in the
distance where you're never going to look. There also is no body roll at all... the cars look completely fake going over the jump at 47sec and flying through the air without any pitch or roll. They need to spend some
time watching race videos (or playing DiRT) and make their game look
like that instead of make showroom-shine glossy cars with unrealistic movements in bland
environments.

That said, I'll buy this game on release day since it's the only
option for the 360. That fanatec wheel looks great, too, although
I'd like it if they came out with a budget option.

the only thing biblically terrible is the size of Clarkson's ego. He spent a whole 2 lines of that review talking about the actual car, and the rest of it is 3 pages of meaningless dribble. Yeah I love Top Gear, too, but Clarkson is getting to me. Why even post this trash?

maybe I'm missing something, but 1.44 seconds doesn't seem newsworthy at all. I wonder how many laps they did that were over 7:29 before they got this one. It seems like the car has plenty of other problems they could be fixing instead of putting so much effort into lap times that mean nothing.

Wow... way to miss the point everyone

$22 is really really expensive for something like this, if Apple was actually paying that much for the hardware. The point of the iSupply article is that you or I or any korean hardware "pirate" could make one of these for $22. Then they might be able to sell their knockoffs cheaper than Apple could. Apple probably pays like $5 each for the hardware that goes into these when you take into account their volume discounts, but they also have to pay for marketing, R&D, Steve Jobs, and any number of other things. The real cost to Apple is probably like $40-50 each (just a guess), then the retail oulets add the final markup to get it to whatever these things are selling for. Nobody's getting "taxed" here.

I'm not familiar with the area at all, but my gut feeling is that nobody would ever use this... that doesn't look like something I'd want to go 200mph in. Plus if they can't get enough people to pay $2 to ride the T in Boston to make it profitable, how are they going to find people going from Detroit to Ann Arbor?

it would be cool if this fit into a standard gauge pod... I have an extra 52mm gauge in my dash waiting for a nifty gadget to be invented to put there. I suppose there's not much you can display on a 2" screen though, but if it could be integrated with the main display of a separate unit it would be quite slick.