A shared platform is not the "VWing" that has resulted in lower sales. The shared platform allowed them to lower development costs. Their poor product development and understanding of the market is something Toyota will probably not be copying anytime soon.

Everyone bags on automakers for re-doing their naming schemes, but if you had put a gun to my head and told me to order the Merc SUVs by size using their "old" names only, I would be dead right now.

Was just thinking the same thing, hoping someone posted the pics of the sportspace. Thanks. Working in the auto industry, I get that some themes cannot make it into production based on physical limitations of being able to mass produce something, but these "production preview" cars don't seem to have too many of those…

This this this. Presidential runs are a marketing campaign more carefully crafted than an independent movie that is trying way too hard to get every single detail right. I would like to meet one of these poor souls that has to do this work to perfect these ideas of "people".

One lump per side was enough.

The Stig is only upset because he thinks Jeremy Clarkson was a hamburger and now he has to find something to eat for lunch.

But there are plenty of Johnny Consumers that probably have the opposite opinion of you on number one and don't know anything about number 2.

The biker did notice he was there actually, which makes your point even stronger. He seemed to be trying to slow down and pull over when the cop car moved more into the bike. I never ran from the police on a bike nor ever got pulled over on my bike but I would have fled that too. Why give him another chance to try…

Let's put you on a motorcycle and drive at a crawl while I drive a 4000lb vehicle into you and pin you to a wall and see how threatened you feel.

"$60k is insane, though. Really. If the interior had a little more fit and finish like a nice C or E class then perhaps, but..."

I never crashed in that, and I drove an infinite number of various speeds. :)

That's pretty much how it is with most mass-market OEMs, only the bigger luxury outfits let you pick individual options typically.

They is also used as a gender neutral pronoun, sexist.

I drove one of these in high school in the early 2000s. It was perfectly safe at many speeds.

But without the configurator, it is difficult to know what the different options are that you might have to select from. Did you ever try figuring out what options were available on VW cars before they brought back the configurator?

That's a little misleading. While the redline per day would certainly keep the mechanic away, it is implying the result that the car will not have problems if you redline it rather than the true result which would be the owner would be driving a non RX-8 after just a few short, fun filled weeks.

I think Hyundai/KIA would be your best targets at this point. They did make the Genesis and Equus against all logic, so hey, maybe they would give this one a swing.

And, besides, it's not like luxury car buyers will only buy sleek and elegant — look at big, boxy SUVs like Range Rovers, Escalades, Navigators, or genuine cyborg-buffalo beasts like the Infiniti QX80. If those are selling, something like this could, too.

Welp, there goes my productivity levels.

Saw this too, much disappoint.