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After the awesome Aston Martin Q car in the "The Living Daylights," Timothy Dalton went rogue as 007 in "Licence to Kill" and therefore went without any special transportation from Q branch. He did get to drive a Lincoln VII around Miami, but he doesn't like to talk about that. The bad guy drives a Maserati in the movie, but it also sucks...

Well, I already know one of our "Cons" for the 2011 Chevy Volt: Only Four Seats. According to Dan Pund's take in Inside Line, the Volt's large T-shaped battery pack slices through the car's center. Placing a seat on top of it would either force occupants' heads into the roof or force engineers to raise the roof -- and not in a "my dad's trying to be hip but doesn't realize that went out in 1997" sort of way...

Has everyone had their seatbelt fastened for the last week or so? Rollercoasters are lot of fun aren't they? Despite the air pockets, the automaker's stocks continue to edge their way north...

I was driving the all-new 2009 Toyota Venza this weekend, but because of scheduling issues, Toyota had to pick up the car early on Sunday and trade it for a mystery car. Frankly, it's hard to get excited about a Toyota "mystery car" -- oooh, a Camry, a Corolla, a Highlander?!? Does the fun ever stop?..

Red light cameras seem to be popping up in more and more places, and the hue and cry about them never ceases to amaze me. The main point is always that the cameras aren't about safety or traffic control, but are about revenue. Well it's pretty simple...

One of my buddies at Tire Town was at a tire seminar last week and he told me about this Bentley on Nokian snow tires. Here's the press release. Bentley Continental GT smashes world ice speed record 2 March, 2007 Oulu, Finland - A Bentley Continental GT, driven by four-times World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, smashed the world ice speed record last week, reaching an average speed of 199.86mph (321.65km/h) on frozen sea off the coast of Finland...

Dear Dub, Is there any way to turn of that chime that goes off if I'm not wearing my seatbelt? Most of the driving I do is just short, local trips and it really drives me crazy! Live Free or Die Yea, aren't all those safety warnings and labels annoying?..

The last Honda Fit was a great little car, but it was usually the last long-termer I wanted to be stuck with for the night. In short, I didn't fit in the Fit. The driver seat didn't adjust enough, the placement was weird and the steering wheel didn't adjust...

Now that all the other problems in the world have been solved, Congress is turning its attention to whether $25 billion (a more sobering way to read that is 25,000 million dollars) should be given to the automakers to bail them... oops... I mean to invest in the auto industry...

I've never been a Mustang fan. Let me rephrase that, a modern Mustang fan. I used to have two classic Mustang posters hanging in my room when I was a kid, spurned on by the fact that both my mother and grandmother used to own them...