Is the point of a car company to make the absolute most money possible, or to make the best product possible and make enough money to maintain profitability?

One has to worry if going so heavily mainstream could mean BMW will lose itself in the crowd.

In a conference call with reporters and analysts, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer revealed that 80 percent of BMW 1-Series drivers believed they were driving a front-wheel drive car.

I was planning on buying an A3 or S3 sedan since 2011 when it was unveiled. That changed to an A5 (when the entire A3 sedan line was confirmed as auto-only for the USA), which I purchased this year because I feared that the next gen MLB platform will also eschew all the manual options for slushboxes or CVTs

The answer might always be Miata, but a more accurate one is stanced Miata. It's fast until you meet a pothole.

My wife bought the 2012 model, autobahn trimline with the 6 speed manual. Great little car. Though I was dismayed that for whatever reason they waited until 2013 to make the HIDs and LEDs available. I agree the halogens are awful. Also, the 2012 omitted the ability to disable ECS. Derp.

Another version of the MQB A3 with no manual in the USA.

seriously? I am absolutely, the entire time, lamenting that the BRZ was not something different. I suppose you had not noticed that this was the thrust of this entire thread. Wtf are you smoking dude?

Lol uh I'm the one who doesn't have a clue? Hello! McFly? You just agreed with me.

You just proved my point again. The entire fact that the engine sits behind the front axle was a concious decision for F-R weight distribution. The car could have been designed around a AWD setup with different engine placement or a different transmission layout. Or the inclsion of a turbo.

Dear FHI/SOA,

Could subaru have offered this car with AWD and/or a turbo?

I'll get worried when they stop making competent all-wheel drive cars with turbo Boxer engines that can handle anything you throw at them

All of you guys COMPLETELY missed the joke Kaga was making.

Well played. Clearly everyone else here's fingers are far from the pulse of the Subaru community. Poor souls dont realize whats in store for the "new" impreza.

You inadvertently hit the nail on the head with that comment.

Hey guys as a DFW resident I have driven by your shop(s) a few times and was wondering why you keep hopping around that area off I35 rather than moving elsewhere (especially with the INSANE 635 mess)

Now, it's not like the four-speed auto jerks you around around or stabs you in the eyeballs every time it changes gear. It's not aggressively bad. But it does say that Toyota thinks it can get away with selling obsolete technology to dumb Americans who can't don't know any better and it means that the Corolla will…

I have ohhh so many to choose from that unfortunately cannot be put out in public domain =(

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