This. A world without dangerous events is a dystopia.

I wonder if the Mazda driver had a heart attack or other sudden health crisis, and lost consciousness, which then led to a crash. I’ve seen about a half-a-dozen deaths at the race track that were like that.

When you’re 68 years old, lots of activities become high-risk!

Have you *driven* a Soul? They’re fun to drive. Very nimble, with great suspension tuning. Lots of fun design touches.
They’re one of the best examples of “cheap but cheerful” on the market today. 

I’ve driven thousands of miles in rented Kia Souls. They *are* great - they handle well, they hold a ton of stuff, and they have personality. They’re not fast, but they’re quick enough to be safe. They have a boomin’ sound system and a 7-year warranty. I try and talk people into buying them all the time. It never…

To my eyes, MB’s design excellence skips every other generation. W124? great. W210? Looks like a fat old man. W211? So pretty that I’ve bought three of them. W212? Ugly.

You’re not the only one.

Yeah, this was my experience with that stuff, too. Roads out in the middle of nowhere, without any real traffic. People would create their own roadblocks.

What Lawyer_Applegate says.

I work with a fair number of people who could easily swing the lease payment on a Bentayga. None of us would say that a Bentayga “communicates a clear message to the world, and to its owner, of taste and refinement.” It communicates that you are either new money trying to be flashy, or foreign money.

Don’t get me…

That’s actually a darned good idea. I bet they could sell a couple thousand of those at a Raptor price point.

I agree, especially the ATS-V coupe. But now that BMW design is Edsel-level ugly, and Audi has removed manual transmissions while adding big Cylon grilles, the Cadillacs are very attractive by comparison.

Realistically, these cars are for middle-aged guys like me, and we don’t want to roll up to the office parking lot in something with a big stupid wing and a bunch of dive planes and side skirts on it.

I’ve looked into LS3-swapping an ATS, and ran across multiple documents in which GM engineers said the ATS-V has a V-6 because it’s a shorter engine. It could be packaged for better weight distribution & track-ready cooling than was possible with the V-8.

100% with you. I was slapping the “reserve now” button yesterday and made it onto the waitlist for the CT5 version. Interestingly, the CT4 didn’t fill out its order book *nearly* as quickly.

All of the trick little engineering bits are signs that GM is bringing its “A” game to these cars. I think they’re going to sound…

Genesis did have a manual option on the G70 2.0. I’d describe it as “pretty darn good” - I’d take it over a 3-series for sure. If they’d had one on the lot in January I’d own one by now - COVID shut everything down before I could place an order for one, and now they’ve discontinued the manual and are not taking orders…

That’s correct. If you want a new three-pedal sports sedan in the US, there’s the bucktoothed, buckboard-ride M3, and these two Caddys.

+1. I’ve bought many hooptie Porsches at this point, and the Boxster is probably, without exaggeration, the most annoying to work on and the most chintizily engineered. If you can’t afford to buy a minty $12k Boxster S, you *definitely* can’t afford the expensive surprises that most likely lurk within a $5.5k Boxster…

Ford does make a regular cab Ranger. Dealers don’t stock them much, but they exist.

Ranger towing capacity is 7500 lbs with the tow package. https://www.ford.com/trucks/ranger/models/ranger-xl/

Holy shit. Why didn’t we know about that before?