Valid point on the magnetic ride control. I would option that on the Mustang EcoBoost HPP with the Handling Pack if I were considering that car, as well. To be honest, I think the mustang is slightly less retro, slightly more timeless, and probably has better outward visibility, and would be the one of the big-3 that…

A: not a new car. We are talking business cases for producing new vehicles. There will always be depreciated used car plethora for the same money.

I am not really one to drive an expensive and insured car on the track, at least not more than every great once in a while. I am not a racer.

I would, and am considering EcoBoost HPP Mustang with Handling Pack, and that is about as close as the big-3 come to an optimized handling sports car, rather than a Muscle car.

See my other response about 370z’s antiquity. And in terms of a business case analysis, new cars aren’t on equal footing with used cars. A new Cayman S is twice the price.

Yes, if it had been designed less than two decades ago.

All that money and effort to take a car with too much power for applying on a public road, and making it even MORE unrealistic.

This is ironic... It is a spoof, a joke, sarcasm, right?

Yes, we (the car geeks) know that... nobody else knows that, because they mostly probably don’t care.

Mechanically they are longitudinal rather than transverse, but most people other than car geeks wouldn’t know what wheels drive most mainstream or premium sedans...

Echoing comments... didn’t realize they WEREN’T all-AWD... (especially with A3 being so close as a transverse Haldex car shared with other FWD VWs...)

How ironic... that is a photo of the new Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package. That egg crate grille with the offset logo is unique to that model, as are the hood stripes.

Hopefully the automotive landscape isn’t those two data points alone.

I still say that it is a great car, betrayed by a high price.

You are obviously not the person to be telling other people what they do or do not need.

Then advocate for people to not listen to salesmen that want to mislead people like that, and push people into vehicles that don’t fit the use case, or deliver the promised reliability.

Then advocate for smaller trucks. Like the Ranger that Ford brought back to the US market. Or Colorado/Canyon, or Nissan Frontier, Toyota Tacoma, Honda Ridgeline, or the upcoming Hyundai Santa-fe.

Who gets to decide that? YOU?

Is survival the only metric?

I always thought these were slightly under-developed, and a bit under-appreciated.