All valid points. But all moot points. This is not built for reasonable people who make reasonable arguments like you’re making. It’s built for people who want exactly what it is. So it’s not so much that this tall-car is stupid, it’s just that its buyer’s tastes are stupid.

Not sure why they went with turbos if low-end torque is a priority. A positive displacement supercharger would get more torque at a lower engine speed. Those turbos would have to be running at just a couple of psi to keep the peak that low in the RPMs. Or maybe there’s some electronic wizardry I’m not aware of.

Honestly, the thing kind of looks like a parody of itself.

Is this a joke? If you are buying it as a daily driver or only car that you need to do practical things with, you’ll have to settle for the FiST (or something else). If you want a truly special sports car (that will beat the pants off an FiST in all measurements except practicality) you buy the S2000 (and you’ll also…

All throughout high school I obsessed over the s2000, but had to settle for my 91 civic si lol. Well, I’ve had my s2000 for about 5 years now and it ain’t going anywhere!

“We’ve done a couple buy-backs, and both came back to buy another Alfa Romeo.”

The article will be titled: “Why buy a new Keurig machine when you can buy this five year old Alfa Giulia instead?”

I’m not sure if it’s true, but I read somewhere that they’re going this direction to more easily hide front cameras between the grills. Either way, ugly.

Lyin’ Guardian (very overrated) is trying to say we discriminate. Wrong. Desperate for clicks. Sad. We will win! People are saying this.

“Okay so we didn’t fool them with velour, and we didn’t fool them with ultrasuede. I am determined to make these fuckers buy plastic and think it’s luxury, so we just need to come up with the right name...”

Are you a sanitation engineer in San Francisco? Every engineer I know can easily afford a $40k car. As a matter of fact, all of them own cars costing well over $40k new.

I think German (European) car manufactures just don’t build cars with long term in mind. Consumers confuse a solid car with good fit-and-finish with long term reliability. The average consumer assumes that a German cars sunroof-radio-cam chain-etc. is the same stuff as a Japanese manufacturer uses. And that’s just not…

That sounds lovely. I had a taste of bmw in the form of an e46 m3... the performance was great but the build quality was crap. My wife also had a horribly gutless and money-pit z3 convertible at one point. I just can’t in good conscience go back to them after those two experiences. To each their own!

I’ve never seen Stockholm Syndrome manifest in a car blog before.

I mean.. go drive an M3. That’s performance. I’m not hating. It’s just that I think “sporty” would apply more in your sitch.

I haven’t driven a 328xi, no. But a sedan with a roughly 16:1 weight to power ratio seems fairly sedate. But whatever floats your boat man.

“performance” seems a bit of a stretch

She’s taking a driving test. That would indicate she did not formerly know how to drive.

This. Tribalism. It’s everywhere.