Sorry Doug, but no.

Too bad Lotus didn’t get rolled into the JLR purchase that Tata made. Combine the engineering in Coventry with the race chops from Hethel and a bit of the lux wizardry next door at Solihull and you’d have an unbeatable combination of Britishness.

Ah! You are correct good sir.

It has a plastic porthole thing on the side THAT DOES NOTHING.

A couple things:

When you are happy to sell it 6-9 months later, as I did with an RSX automatic (BLECH) and a Saab 9-3 2.0t Sportcombi (dull handling, rattles for days, manual tranmission and clutch more vague than a politician’s answer to any direct question.)

Probably true, but that doesn’t change the reality of the buying public.

Nice to see the Dodge boys leading an aspect of the Ponycar sweeps.

Well now we can be sure that it will indeed be a less-racy, less intense Vision Gran Turismo look. I’m already missing all the crazy spoilers and details from that car...

Tricked out as a Low-low on daytons, with a gold chain steering wheel and a chromed-out crate FoMoSport mill this would be worth it...

Florida? Texas? New Mexico??

Nope, it doesn’t.

Check out the Piano Division’s work:

I agree; between the 2.0T PP and the VR6 there’s not much in it performance wise, but older buyers seem to rely on cylinder count not power-to-weight ratios.

You’re not missing much from Anchor - their wings always seemed salty and a little flavorless in comparison to Duff’s.

I get the 1.8t being the default Jetta/Golf engine, but not using the 2.0t GTI mill in the Passat lineup is boggling.

:(

Marchionne strikes again.

When Ferraris were beautiful they barely met the regulations of their time. When the first post-fuel crisis regulations hit Ferraris got harder to fit real humans into. Plus, the obsession with fast Ferraris has meant shapes that are optimized to cheat the wind, use it to stick the road, and shapes that package the…

That Cintiq lagginess is a shame, as I write this I have my 24HD running and the laptop screen handling email and other at-a-glance stuff.