As long as you call the motorcycle Monkey, rather than you coworker, it’s all good.

I remember going through the exercise of counting ball bearings when I replaced the forks on my ATC90 as a kid.

A5 S line at 44k is a four-cylinder engine with 250-some HP.

You’d be surprised: I live in the LES and work in FiDi and I see scores of new Cadillacs and Lincolns every day. Certainly many of them are from car service fleets, but I see enough parked on the street in the same places overnight to know Old American Luxury still resonates in New York City.

The Regal is midsize and larger than all of those. A6, E class, 5 series sized. Plus you get the huge trunk with hatchback opening.

Corvettes are cheaters. It always amazes me after I’ve been back road romping in my C5 and the fuel economy has stayed above 20 MPG.

Except the Germans don’t actually sell cars that are optioned at that price.

So what’s the buyer demographic for this? Into spirited driving, but also have a family to haul around, but can only have one vehicle, but able to afford the upkeep on a used Porsche...talk about a niche.

Thats a SJ40 model which was made during the 80's and 90's.

2018 Subaru Outback 3.6R Touring.

2014 - 2017 Buick Regal GS. You can find a newer one that’s lightly used fresh off a lease well within budget and still have a ton of factor warranty left. You’d be getting a car with decent power and handling as well as a better interior than a lot of other cars in that price range for the age etc.

There has never been a person that drove with headphones in that wasn’t a terrible driver. They’re even worse when its a newer vehicle, and exponentially worse when its a luxury brand.

“the BMW rear-ends the Audi in front of him. It wasn’t a big deal, so the Audi driver kept going”

I’d love to see someone do a swap with that and put it into a Pontiac Solstice

While reliability remains to be seen the torque curve is where this will be a superior truck engine.

Isn’t the engine the only Italian part on the car? If memory serves, the manual comes from the previous gen Mazda, not from Fiat.

Anyone else notice how many of those are automatics?

Maybe not easy. The fiat uses the previous generation miata transmission for some reason.