Somewhere out there, a marketing team is high-fiving each other about how they convinced the public to expect 4WD.

Calling an EV a “Turbo” is absurd. I really dislike this blurring of automotive terms practiced by BMW, Mercedes, and now Porsche. It’s very un-German of them. The German language probably has a very specific word for precisely this type of thing.

How much for the new Honda Element?

Wolfsburg Syndrome?

“It makes 755 HP from the LT5 engine, whose supercharger consumes about 100 HP at full boost. “So,” Lee said, “our engine is really making 855 HP at the crank, since 100 HP is used to drive the supercharger.”

Gears 1-3: $45 USD per month.

Have they mentioned what the annual fee will be to unlock the shifter?  Can I pay a flat rate at purchase to keep the shifter unlocked?

Since your car’s Blue Book value is calculated based on that of the (defective) two-pedal version minus a standard deduction for manual transmission (usually a declining percentage of the AT option price), Ford should definitely be on the hook for lost resale value.

manual focuses will probably be amazing deals now and really besides the transmission these are pretty good cars.

Those tires are also constructed much differently than a street tire. This is an absurd comparison.

And as you said, these are mandated, not chosen by the teams for ultimate performance.

Big wheels are a necessity because people keep buying huge cars with huge wheel wells. Stop buying stupid and bad cars. 

Fuck, yeah. They’d find me on the flight deck, sitting in the captain’s seat making prop plane noises and surrounded by empty mini bottles. My first words to the rescuers [maintenance folks] would either be “I’ll never get over Macho Grande.” or “Surely, you can’t be serious.”

What, autos are fun too...

To all the eventual commenters complaining about three pedal lovers, it’s all about this:

“The customization came years later, starting with an eight-centimeter chop from the roofline.”

So like Alonso’s career it was last useful to anyone in the early to mid 2000s?

Now time for the mythical Jalop to put down his mythical money on this mythical base model version.

I am disproportionately amused by the carbon door card clearanced for the cage.

This may be bigger than we thought. It turns out that there were many early, unsuccessful attempts at this BMW theft scheme worldwide that only succeeded in disabling the turn signals.

“...so than i filled his oil filter with metal shavings"

What?? I’m honestly not convinced you watched this race.