It really starts to add up when you think about it, too.

I6. The TT V6 is Alfa Romeo and Maserati only, while the TT I6 (GME-T6) is the most likely candidate for HEMI replacements in the trucks and SUVs. I think the first vehicle getting the T6 in production is the Grand Wagoneer?

Chinese coilovers on my old 318ti. They were about as bad as you’d expect, and after I moved north from Florida, one of the rear springs rusted through after a couple winters and snapped.

Yeah, the science doesn’t actually make sense, but that is indeed what the canon states.

If they’re following the canon from the games and books, the Warthog uses a hydrogen-fueled ICE, with on-board electrolysis of water to produce the hydrogen fuel.

Honestly, I’m fine with the manual being A-spec only, but also locking it behind the additional “Tech Package” with a bunch of extra shit I do not want or need is kinda bullshit.

I know, right?

I don’t have a good size reference to compare the ZF8 to BMW’s manual box, but modern automatics have gotten surprisingly compact over the years. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the auto is smaller, at least in some key dimension that’s critical for packaging.

The change from open-deck to closed-deck started with the B38 (3-cylinder), which was the first engine in the family that spawned the B58. Given that the B38 went into production in 2013, it most likely started development around 2008 at the latest, which is well before BMW and Toyota supposedly started talking about…

Eh... that says that Toyota did durability testing on the B58, not that they had any input on the design.

I dunno, 481 lbs doesn’t seem THAT bad, when even an SV650 is well over 400 nowadays.

Why on earth would you want to trade a RWD, straight-6 BMW for a FWD, 4-cylinder Honda?

E36s were notorious for the glass binding and/or jumping out of the tracks and bending the arms of the regulator assembly (I dealt with this something like 4 times on my old 318ti).

I’m not sure about Hondas, but I’m pretty sure that all modern Toyota engines since around the mid-2000s use HLA (hydraulic lash adjuster) valvetrains. I believe the transition occured from the “Z” engines (UZ, AZ, etc.) to the “R” engines (UR, AR, etc.).

The biggest issue with OLED displays is burn-in, not brightness, which this does not appear to address. Unfortunate.

Please don’t pretend that this is any way shape or form behavior exclusive to Americans.

Yeah, mid-way through writing that comment, I changed my calculations to assume 3100 lb instead of 3200 (assuming that maybe they’d find a way to lose a little weight from the ~3200 lb ILX), but forgot to go back and change the number.

The window to edit posts on Kinja is pretty short, so by the time I noticed, I…

No, I am not.

Bradley’s original post said 180 HP. He edited it to 200 HP after I made my comment (one of the other commenters corrected him). By that point I was no longer able to edit my comments to adjust the numbers.

Haha, yeah, apparently there must be an overlap between all these commenters and STI buyers, given how strongly people seem to be objecting to the fact that I expected a little more progress from the 90s.