NAIAS Tidbit: Subaru BRZ On The Ground, Er, Platform

Rotating alone on a turntable: the Subaru BRZ. Looks good, if you ask me. Unfortunately we couldn’t touch the dashboard for all of you dash-touchers out there… more shots after the jump.

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Junkyard Find: 1974 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce

I’ve never owned an Alfa, and every time I see one in the junkyard I feel a twinge of guilt for never having rescued some poor abandoned Spider project prior to the inevitable ride to the junkyard that all such Alfas take after a decade or two spent sitting under a tarp in the driveway. Here’s yet another rust-free Spider that’s going to get eaten by The Crusher because nobody was willing to save it.

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Honda Mobbed By CR-Z Buyers

Honda is perplexed and overwhelmed by the demand for their just launched CR-Z small sports hybrid car, says The Nikkei [sub]. Honda had planned for 1000 a month, which turned out to be a big mistake. After one month, they already have more than 10,000 orders, and a hard time filling them. They’ve sold in one month what they wanted to sell in a year, more or less, and the orders keep pouring in.

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  • Lorenzo How Sad. This wagon had at least another 100K miles left on her. It's like having your body donated to science at age 60 - while you're still alive!
  • Tassos no matter how much you (very foolishly!) pay for this serial loser, you will lose EVERY CENT OF IT when it goes broke. Just like GM's shareholders in 2008.
  • Kwik_Shift_Pro4X And the next version in 6 months will be even more hotter. 🙄
  • Cprescott While this seems like good news, IIHS is a complete racket that arbitarily changes standards at a whim based on specious evidence. Once cars meet these standards, IIHS changes them so that most will fail so they get publicity. This is how they work. And I'm not even going into the fact that they are funded by the insurance companies....
  • Cprescott Good old days of Volvo. Can't say tht about their current garbage.