The Insight is one of the worst reviewed well-known cars out right now. Clarkson said he'd rather drive it into a brick wall, or something to that effect. Not exactly a shining analogy you make.

or a "Tool"?

So why not Ford or Lincoln? Or Subaru for that matter? Feel is a terrible thing to determine "safety" on. I am not saying I don't agree with you with regards to the marques you mentioned but Fifth Gear tested the theory of "solid" vs "new and well-engineered" and crashed an old school Volvo station wagon into a new European hatchback (I think it was a Renault). I would much rather have been in the Renault. Safety is good; the myth/perception of safety is bad.

The Maxima is FWD whereas the M35/45 is based on the RWD platform, lengthened a bit, that the G37 uses.

You're kidding, right?

You're kidding, right?

I think they sacrificed the electronic viewfinder for the sake of size and portability. Note in the post above that it would have been an electronic viewfinder, not an optical viewfinder - it's a limitation (or an advantage) of the technology not to have a mirror and pentamirror/pentaprism.

Definitely disagree. Perhaps it's fair to say most cameras take pretty good pictures in easy lighting situations. I know for a fact that the noise performance in low-light shots of Fuji cameras from 2 or 3 years ago is superior to what they have out currently. It's the same when you look at cameras like the Canon EOS40D and 50D - sure, they're great cameras, but many people are claiming that low-light image quality dropped with the newer one.

If you include transmission, you're probably closer to $10k than $2k.

Matt, definitely not the case. It's simply not safe to drive a rwd car without snow tires here on some days. And when I say some days, it could be 10% of the winter, but either way, it's stupid not to get snow tires. A Miata with snows will do better than a Subaru with all-seasons up here.