Are you one of the star people? Did you look to buy a sports car or did you look to buy a performance car?

RE performance:

That he has at least 20 people starring his post speaks volumes about how prolific daftness is.

The Jetta is also pretty stupid. I do not know why they bothered to develop and produce an entirely different car to give the Americas their cheap sedan version of the Golf instead of just basically de-contenting, re-paneling, and re-badging an A3. It cannot have been less expensive.

Chicken and egg, though. VW has never been able to figure out what products to offer here to be hugely successful and they are always worried about stepping on Audi’s toes with some of their models.

Check it for fleas.

Stay tuned for the next Nissan Z, then! Hope you don’t need usable rear seats!

It’s not replacing it, it’s just compressing it first. :p

I lease one, and I agree with you. It’s simply fantastic, the driving dynamics at public speeds are faultless, just the right balance of comfort and firmness, and the steering lets you feel all the little pebbles on the road.

GM doesn’t have any designers.

I think you missed the point of that second post. He was highlighting that China uses outside parts suppliers in their electronics wares to counter your argument that the Chinese economy is insular (and it is and you are absolutely correct to point out that it is).

Chinese construction is not an issue, they make fantastic stuff. Increasing Chinese economic leverage is the problem.

When did we stop calling it “Crack Pipe”? Get outta here with that play-nice “No Dice” bullshit.

I wonder if this design language isn’t just BMW taking the piss out of all the status wankers who buy these things compulsively for bragging rights. A sort of “Ha ha, look at these sorry cunts who just buy any piece of garbage we trot out to them!”

Ah, yes, let’s take a single design element from one or two anomalous BMWs and use that on a car that might as well come from the planet Zogon in the 24th (and a half) century. That’s how much of a relationship there is to that car and this new M4.

Nothing stopping them from doing a 180 on this design direction. Even with the wasted tooling, they could probably make it back in a couple months.

Volvo, Alfa, Mazda, Tesla, and VW (to a lesser extent) are the only brands applying the KISS approach to car design in 2020. Everybody else is over-styling the life out of their cars and it’s paaaaaaainful to be in the market for a new car right about now.

It’s worse, the grille on the M3 and M4 is not even the same set of shapes as the standard 4-series. Dare I say it, the M440i actually looks better than the M4 by a wide margin (no pun intended).

It’s not just Hyundai group. Literally every Euro manufacturer treats NA as a second-class market, and I don’t mean that just because they refuse to sell us wagons.

This guy fucking gets it.