Hooray, an Italian R8!

Not really, he actually loves how China operates. He has already demonstrated how willing he is to suck Xi’s dick as he is to throw Xi under the bus as long as he looks good doing it.

Audi and Cadillac very deliberately do not use the Hoffmeister kink.

You have made this process more complicated than it actually is. You just leave the car in first gear, hold the clutch open, and slip it a tiny bit at a time to keep you rolling. No engine blipping, no short-shifting, just occasional brake and occasional clutch release.

I don’t want fully analogue, I just am not going all-in on touchscreens to this extent. I suspect this will actually be a curve as the increased expense of developing new EV powertrains and products requires cost-cutting but, eventually, they will be done with that and there will be a realization that capacitive…

Unfortunately.

They aren’t. But they have been trying to spin the “all-digital” interior in the new Golf as an improvement over its predecessor (it’s not) and this is merely an extension of that.

Ah, yes, cost-cutting billed as luxury design. Classic.

If this were my car, I would totally replace all of the Aston logos with Batman logos and drive it around dressed as Batman every day.

Is that Ken continuously reaching for a shifter that isn’t there?

I didn’t say they weren’t cheap, too, only implied that the presentation was still better. Toyota and Honda have made some of the bar-none worst interiors in the market over the last five years, which they can do since people are buying them because of their reputation for set-it-and-forget-it reliability more than…

Not even. It has some of the thinnest plastics ever, so cheap they barely even textured them, and the infotainment is absolute shit. Only the Type R is passable.

And yet, the Civic interior is still a complete PoS and in no way superior to a Malibu or the now-dead Cruze.

And who are you to think you speak for “the majority of people” any more than me? Or anyone else? Get out of here with your cognitive dissonance and 20/700 vision.

No, the design is shit and not particularly well-resolved.

It’s not just the airbags, the structural requirements have changed. The pedestrian safety requirements have changed. New crash tests have been developed from angles not accounted for in the 1990s. If automakers could still legally sell cars built to 1990 specs in Western markets, they absolutely would.

The requirements that make up “airbags and crash testing” have expanded. Dramatically.

I dunno, having 80% trying to catch the kite might result in higher chance of failure from the resulting Charlie Foxtrot.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’d rather they not keep the game systems and would rather they somehow rework the game to function like Dragon Age: Inquisition.