I drive a tiny Mazda MX5 with a 2l engine that has been laughed at on a few occasions (for its size). In New England (Boston and surrounding States), people seem to believe you have to drive an All Wheel Drive 4x4 SUV Tank to get through the winter. Many of the middle States drive crappy huge cars because Detroit tells them to, Texas just doesn't get it (on many things - but it's a nice place to visit briefly), and California should know better.

That said, I am confident that the economic downturn will finally convince a few people here to care more about what actually matters - and size really isn't one of those things. Hopefully, one day we'll be proud to buy American cars, but until then Detroit needs to learn a hard lesson (bail out or no bail out, and if the former then it better involve reform).

Jon.