Real enthusiasts appreciate enthusiast cars, instead of playing the hipster “Bugattis and Lotuses aren’t even cool, I don’t know why they even exist.”

I’m not interested in the price of a car. I’m interested in the performance of a car. And it’s no surprise that price scales with performance.

Don’t listen to the hipsters. No one had posters of these on their walls as children. This is normcore, and they just take solace in the fact that they think that they’re cool because they’re different. Or it’s flimsy justification for trying to ball on a budget. “Yeah man, I WANTED to own this 1992 Chevrolet station…

I think the thing is, that the average new car is currently $31,000. So while the cars that you mention exist, by and large people are buying more expensive vehicles. I think that @smalley is saying that people will start considering those cars that you mention more and more, whereas you maybe interpreted it that the…

The GTI’s video makes it looks like it fails as spectacularly as the Alpina. But at my local autocross events, GTI’s do incredibly well. And even all the way up to Nationals, where even in G Street (the most stock class there is, basically you are allowed to change one of the sway bars, put slightly better shocks, and…

Like people say at the autocross track, before you turn any bolts on the car, work on the nut behind the wheel. Given that the GTI experienced the same failure, it’s more likely that the driver is not accounting for the driving dynamics of the car, and is just boneheadedly providing inputs to the car that just happen…

Go to local autocross and time trial events, and come back and make that statement when you aren’t getting rocked by them.

More performance cars are HARDER to drive, not easier, but they are more rewarding. To give an extreme example, here is what a competent, experienced, and well regarded driver, one of the hosts of Top Gear and The Grand Tour, looks like when trying to drive a Formula 1 car. It’s the same thing with the Alpina. You…

The thing is, a more performance oriented car is harder to drive, not easier. Anyone can ride a Huffy. Put the average person onto a Tour de France bike, and they will be slower than they would on another bike. It’s more intensive to control. Similarly, you can’t just get the first person coming out of the supermarket…

Like they said, if the move is to 7 speed manual transmissions, it’s so that the development work can be repurposed for the Mustang. Given that automatics are up to 10 speeds, if you don’t keep up at least somewhat with a manual, you’re going to hurt the vehicle’s performance and fuel economy numbers.

The RF is more expensive because of the moving roof. Look at the 86/BRZ which start at only $26,000 instead of the RF’s $32k.

If you fully believe this, then you will go put a deposit down on one of those new cars that you mention. If you aren’t buying new, then you aren’t a customer, and the automakers have learned not to get misguided by the loud online rants of the vocal minority. Go vote with your wallet. A new Miata weighs the same as a…

You want to know why there are no midsize hatch/wagons instead of a crossover under $50k? Because time and time and time and time again, we as enthusiasts clamored for it. And time and time and time and time again, when it’s time to put our money where our mouth is, then wagons fail to adequately sell. Everyone says…

You’re confusing cause and effect. There are no other options because no matter how good cars are, like how much better this Accord is that was recently redesigned, but is still struggling for sales. Automakers and dealerships are putting crossovers on the lots because that’s what people want.

That’s absurd. Honda put tons of money into the newest Accord, made it an incredible vehicle, and is trying to sell the hell out of it. They’re making great cars, and it’s the buyers that are choosing to pay more for less with a crossover.

I don’t understand the 1st gear. You say that thanks to Ram and Jeep, that Chrysler has surged past Ford. But then you blame Ford for killing sedans. Which is it? If it’s trucks and Jeeps that saved Fiat Chrysler, then by your own admission, sedans aren’t really that important. Sales statistics seem to back that up,…

I know that all of the drama made a good story, but here is how you handle this going forward and avoid all of that. “Oh, your insurance company took it? Great, would you call them and tell them that you want to buy it back? I will pay you x% more than their asking price (or $x if that works better) for your trouble.…

And you keep trying to change the narrative, and push your own biases on me. Look at how loose and flappy you are. I call out your argument styles, and voila, your conviction is about as firm as tissue in a hurricane.

Egh. Get yourself a Bimmer 5 or 7 series. The only thing that these aut0-only failures are good for is donating their powerplants to an FD that hasn’t gone the LS swap route.

Mmmm, keep feeding me your logical fallacies and lazy argumentation. I relish them, and bask in the fact that you can’t address my points substantively. Go read a book on logic before coming at people with your weaksauce.