Quick question

Statements like “dealerships serve no purpose/create no customer benefit” show bias on your part, not mine.

What makes you think manufacturers wouldn’t just keep that margin to themselves? Especially since they now have to handle all the transaction processing, marketing and logistics dealerships did? And have removed the only avenue consumers have to get competitive pricing? 

It’s way more feasible to pit dealers of a single brand against each other than whole manufacturers with nothing but websites. Dealerships provide a huge opportunity for customers to get competitive pricing. The existence of Nissan is irrelevant if I have decided to buy a Toyota.

This new one has excessive overhang and ugly details. The low polygon surfacing is terrible. Only good thing about it is that nose. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree

Shit proportions, even for a car of this class, and busy, incoherent details. The Elantra peaked in design nearly a decade ago and has been in decline ever since.

Plot twist: EVERY car sold factory direct will have a middleman markup. It’s called MSRP. Most cars are not selling anywhere near retail. That would all change in the factory direct model, and is something people fail to account for in their seething dealership hatred.

How is the 2.5 VR6T in the Volkwagen Teramont not the obvious choice? You want to talk about heritage...........................

Mediocre manuals shouldn't be rewarded. They are a bit part of why manuals are dying.

This is a family sedan, not a track weapon

I heard the manual isn’t that good. And it’s still a boat. The way I see it, if I’m getting a car like this... Might as well get the big lump for the open road. A stick isn’t turning this into a Skip Barber open wheeler

I’m a ricer boi.... I know NT03s when I see them.

Never change Kimi

I don’t mind the concept/builds; I’m just getting clout fatigue. Monkey see monkey do. One person has an original idea and they make the mistake of sharing it with the world, and then a million monkeys run out to do the same for clout. This isn’t exclusive to safari, it seems like much of the car building world…

Have you done any before/after testing to see if your emissions have changed? Do you think automakers put all that stuff on for no reason?

Want to see where the money was saved? Get into an accident.

So you like cars and video games..................................... but you don’t sim race??!? Can we talk?

1st- in the immortal words of Sonny from A Bronx Tale: Now, you’s can’t leave.

I can't remember if I drove one of these or an Econoline... But either way, one of the scariest highway drives I can remember. One of the few times I stuck under the speed limit and kept right. This sounds pointless

I can see it now.