I’m having a hard time getting exciting about this. I keep reading about how this was almost entirely developed by Toyota but I also keep reading about how pretty much everything about it is from BMW.

Well...  we’re talking the same sentiment...   but you can’t stab the gas and get the rear end loose in an Echo.  :)  Crappy FWD cars just aren’t that fun.  Low-grip RWD with adequate power though...  that’s genuine driving enjoyment.

Yeah.  They’ll bust us here for that too if they see it.  I’m just saying it’s safe and fun and done at legal speeds, even if the hooning itself isn’t legal.  Like...  you can go around a normal corner and have a bit of fun without needing to do stupid and dangerous speeds.

I’ve never driven one so I can’t really have an opinion. I kinda skipped that tier entirely, going from a FWD sport compact to a Boxster with gobs of grip.

What people don’t realize is that you don’t need to go fast to have fun. That’s what I learned at a Mazda test-drive event in a parking lot on what was basically an autocross course.

No track?  Waste of money.  

Sounds great to me! I hope it’s not prohibitively expensive. If they make this at a price point where a mid 20's driving enthusiast can make it their primary (if impractical) vehicle I think it’ll be a hit.

I’ve seen a couple at local dealerships and they way they’ve spec’d them makes them seem like a complete waste of an allocation.

I don’t want this. They look stupid.  They’re going to create more problems than they solve.  Because they don’t seem to solve any real problems.  

My house is worth more now than what I paid for it... but yeah... I paid 70% of what I paid for my house... for my car.

Thing is... I don’t think you need to be a billionaire to blow a couple million on some fun. You just have to consider the money spent rather than as any sort of investment.

Just a sculpture to be passed around from billionaire to billionaire.

It’s pretty much scrap. This is a commercial vehicle that’s well past it’s useful end-of-life date. People might use it as a novelty, but not for any significant money. Certainly not for 5 figures.
This should probably get snapped up by a company that rents out vehicles for movie shoots or something.

Volkswagen was cheating on purpose and “maliciously” isn’t a good word to use there either. They weren’t doing it to hurt anyone. They were doing it for profit.
In this case, there’s no reason to do this at all. It’s just a screw-up, but one that shows a blatant disregard for customer service.

Paying ahead and then not making payments for a while is an option on many loans. That’s probably why people got the letters they got. Whatever system the payment was entered in probably generated a letter based on this scenario whereas in reality it was actually a lump sum payment to reduce the balance and not meant…

It’s a big corporation. There’s just no incentive for doing it maliciously. “Accidentally” might not be the right word as it implies that some person made a mistake of some sort when in reality it’s probably a shitty business process coded by some low-rate off-shore coder that didn’t understand any of the language in…

If I’m reading it correctly, it seems to me that they DID apply the insurance payment as a lump-sum to the loan and expected the next payment on the remaining balance at the regular time, BUT accidentally sent paperwork that showed the insurance payment being applied as the next many months of payments in advance such…

Could be.  The current ones already have it on some models.

Last track day I was at, one of the local owners brought a new Ford GT. Was epic to see. :)

I really dig what a 944 is/was. What it wasn’t... really though... was “meant to be a convertible”.  :)