Lexus is just like Cadillac was prior to this change:

• General Motors

If you will allow me to ramble a bit:

Having your own place will lift a weight off you that you didn’t know you had . . . unless you move into a broken down hell hole, of course. Plus, you’re paying yourself instead of someone else to live there and, location dependent, you’re far more likely to get more than your money back upon sale than not.

As a counterpoint, the cars people own is not what I pass lay judgement on. Trying to rationalize and forgive the industry for making decisions that water down enthusiast options? Willfully conflating technical performance with sportiness? That is where the judgement happens. It’s okay to like and drive boring cars.…

Only if the Portofino is also based on the Alfieri.

And you’ve obviously never driven anything with unstreetable performance limits.

I just want cars like these to pivot toward enjoyability instead of raw performance. Murray’s T50 has the right idea, everybody should be doing that because we can’t even remotely touch the performance of cars like this; they aren’t sports cars, they are race cars with number plates.

Kind of hitting around the problem, which is that we’ve reached a point where the performance is irrelevant and how the car makes you feel is increasingly important. That means aesthetics and anything else that assaults the senses in fine ways should come more to the fore; yet another supercar effortlessly doing 0-60…

Not enough of the RS7 is carbon fiber for it to matter. :p

More than the center console is carbon fiber though. In this case, it’s hinting at what lies underneath to keep the weight down. You won’t be looking at it is exactly the point.

I recall that the AMR is actually offered in stick, or that it is supposed to be offered in stick in the near future. Am I mistaken and, if not, why was that not mentioned in the “Jalopnik Recommended Options”?

Yes, because all of them are shockingly fat.

At least on iOS, every mobile browser I’ve used so far with ad-blocking capability has this peculiar behavior where the website will auto-refresh and, when it comes back, all of the ads are now enabled and I can’t turn the block back on without clearing ALL of my cookies. It’s...irritating.

It makes sense in this car. It does not make sense in something like an Audi RS7.

It looks good and hits almost all of the right technical specs, but as a whole it all seems kind of generic.

Nobody:

Consider my interest piqued.

Sound-wise, I didn’t like its usage here. Thematically, though, very appropriate.

I dunno, I had hoped maybe Gordon Murray’s T50 would be a trend-setter? Probably too soon for that to happen, though.