You're just flat wrong on this one, son.

what let loose on your gti?

Oh yes how could a company that specializes in high-tech, high-design consumer products ever adapt their high-complexity, high-precision development and manufacturing strategies to an industry with a rapid redevelopment cycle and highly brand-loyal customers?

from a sleeper angle I want one so bad. Please, GM, please keep making these until I can afford one.

the i3 makes a carbon monocoque potentially feasible at a mid-40k price point, which makes the torsion issues substantially more controllable. Not sayin' you're wrong as you identified the major flaw that would have to be engineered around, Just sayin' it's not impossible.

Quality engineering. The technology that goes into making a car correctly is so astoundingly advanced that we can make cars more complicated than the space shuttle as reliable as a refrigerator. This new car-as-appliance paradigm has drastically shifted the common customer's knowledge and expectations from a vehicle.

What are you expecting to cost $5k to fix? I'm just curious.

From one BMW fan to another: You brag about driving an x3 and write comments like this, you're not exactly part of the solution.

This was so excruciating I went and watched Doug's videos after and found them to be well-produced and informative.

I want this to not be too good to be true. I'm not even concerned about the reliability of these stock—I DD an E39 M5 and have already gone through VANOS issues and the dreaded "never ending stutter chase" and with an OBD scanner, youtube, forums, and a BMW CCA parts discount I've concluded the horror stories…

While simultaneously de-prioritizing traditional intellectual assets in favor of crowd-sourced solutions.

I'm so unsure if you're trolling that i'm gonna go ahead and congratulate you on it to be safe.

e39 M5: 10% jalop ahahahaha my life is a sham

I like your style, but that's for the airframe only, so technically you're at 0 hp :(

That's an independent design study unafilliated with Bugatti, not a real concept.

This is what happens to the rest of your lineup when you bet the farm on the i sub-brand. The rest of the Gxx revisions will be similarly uninspired. Get ready for a boring ass cycle from the Bavarians, folks.

DO IT.

see also: 5 series and 3 series GTs. The exact same demographic that wouldn't be caught dead in a BMW wagon just adores how roomy the GTs are.

Between the break-in comments, the warranty comments, and the environment/health comments, this is the lamest comment thread i have ever read on Jalopnik.

TORCH WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON MY TURF.