Is there really a huge difference between chrome and polished? I realize chrome has much more shiny to it, but I just don’t see this being a big deal to any potential buyers.

Half a C8 for a BRZ? Crack pipe all day long.

The nose lift is incredibly useful in the city where a lot of driveways - into business, homes, and parking garages - are too steep to not scrape on.

Jalopnik isn’t whoreing out to GM, they’re whoring out to advertisers who only care about clicks and the demographics of those clicks.

This is an outstanding feature to have on any car that is going to be low to the ground. I have to be careful and take inclines at angles in our Exige, V-Wagon, and V70R - none of which have been lowered. A few underbody scrapes don’t kill resale on our vehicles, but on a exotic or semi-exotic, they absolutely…

True.  Only pickups were sold to the public during the war.  A few car production lines remained open, but only for government vehicles which had wartime modifications.

The QX80 gets stolen when you’re a couple months behind on payments, $25,000 underwater because you rolled your last negative equity vehicle into the loan, but you do have GAP insurance.

From now on, anything around $60,000 is going to raise a quick question:

They will build them as soon as the initial demand dries up. The first builds will be “first edition” packages loaded with expensive options and orders loaded with expensive options.

I disagree, and here is why:

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Why stop there?

TOO FAR!

First, I think Corvette sales are traditionally higher. In 2018, they sold over 20,000 in North America. I expect they will sell double that of the C8 - it is really that good. That gives us $3,000 * 4260 or about $13,000,000 in revenue if we assume it would come with a $3,000 premium

Gather ‘round kids and let me tell you when Nissan sold a “sports sedan” called the Maxima that was actually an industry leader.  This was waaaay back in the 90s, then boxiness was good...

From Volvo’s perspective, anything that contributes to sharing R&D costs is probably a good thing.  Volvo would probably also like to get Lotus’ engineering prowess involved in their own tuning as Volvo isn’t exactly known for performance.

I’ll bet $100 that they eventually release a version with a manual. If could be a $3,000 option and people would still want it because it is a true differentiator in today’s market.

The Renegade is simply a rebadged, slightly warmed over Fiat.  They have almost no R&D costs in it.

I don’t mind them selling crossovers and/or SUVs as long as they are great drivers compared to their competitors.  It is necessary to get the books balanced.

At this point, the real news is when a new platform is not going to have an EV version, especially when we are talking about European brands where EVs often have tremendous tax advantages over ICE cars, especially large engine ICE cars.