The Portofino is the entry-level Ferrari and is the one you can actually just walk in and order. Basically, you have to buy a Portofino before you can buy anything else.

Them not doing how the Germans do is not inherently wrong. Them doing something that is confusing is what’s wrong, it just so happens that the German method is not confusing and is therefore right.

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Never seen Doctor Who, eh?

I want a Volvo S60 that drives like an Audi S5; I bet it would sell mad crazy for its segment.

The difference is that the Germans have variants, and then they have trims within the variant. Cadillac ties both together, the trim is the variant. When you buy a 3-series, you select your variant by choosing a 320i, a 330i, an M340i, or an M3. The last one has been well-established as the top of the heap, there is…

No, the problem is he’s pulling the paddle and it’s not responding immediately. In comparable cars from the Germans, it responds immediately whether it’s a DCT or torque converter unit.

That cockpit looks amazing. The 370Z’s cockpit was amazing, too, just old. See this, Chevy? This is how you do a driver-focused cockpit. You don’t split the car interior down the middle with a literal wall.

Since the front is so closely modeled after the 240Z, how about some cornering lights where the blinkers are on the original?

Somebody told me to use the Brave browser on iOS. I am, now, and it fixes everything.

All the optional aesthetic bolt-on bits you can spec for your BMW are billed as “M Performance” parts, so with BMW it sort of cuts two ways. M Sport used to be the “M Lite” before they came up with M440 and such; so they have relegated it to being M appearance packages on non-M Performance cars while at the same time t…

In b4 all the dentists on Santa Cruz bikes also buy Santa Cruz trucks to carry them in.

Following in the footsteps of the new Elantra.

For Lexus:

Lexus is just like Cadillac was prior to this change:

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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.