Just about every curvy-ish coupe with a long hood and short deck, be it Viper, F-Type, 812 Superfast, Z3/Z4, etc. Exceptions are Mustangs (she likes those) and Shelby Cobras (her dad likes those, she’s somewhat ambivalent about them, visually).

Between a horse and a Ferd F-TeenThousand.

Why? It’s up there in the same overall tier (but not toe-to-toe) as the X5M, AMG Mercedes M-bus-thing, and SRT-8 JGC.

...Maserati? Do you mean the old-ass sports car (admittedly good looking, just dated and the grille is overwrought), awkward sedan, or ugly SUV?

New model. Top-performance variants usually come out in later model years.

Tremor was mostly a graphics package, though.

Your anecdotes confound me. The Explorer (and Flex/MKT) are notoriously roomy, such that I have to stretch my left arm when in the driver’s seat to use the door-mounted armrest. They’re big enough for police officers with duty belts. The acadia is roomy, sure (and too damn big for the class, at least in…

The front end has grown on me since being leaked months ago. It may not be as reserved as a Challenger, but it’s not as outrageously-ugly as the camaro. The noise alone sells it, much like the GT350. Hnnnnng...

You could take a baseball bat to a Mustang II and it’d still look better than the new camaro. 

Sure, the folks who just dropped $70K+ on one of these will go right out and undo the hundreds of thousands if not millions of R&D testing the OEM did to make the car perform that much better than its brethren. 

Thank you for showing how much worse it could have been. That’s not even the newest model!

Because people might confuse it for the CPC in the GT350?

“best ever interior for a vette” is a VERY low bar to clear. They’ve been in competition woth Playskool and Fisher-Price for the last few decades, and also competing within with the C7, which without the corvette logo on the screen and wheel could have been confused for a cruze coupe.

So a line of not-easily-found buttons, a large swathe of leather that you know will be peeling and bubbling in a few years, a Mercedes-like infotainment controller, and ho-hum GM plastics. The overall design is a nice departure, but the execution is underwhelming at best, and that’s just in photos.

Hopefully Toyota figured out how to resolve the seive-like designs of BMW’s recent engine gaskets.

No, it’s exactly what we were expecting. Which is why it’s so disappointing. It’s a new car, except it’s not. Just like the current NSX.

5-door versus a 2-coupe isn’t exactly apples-to-apples. But to answer your question, an F-Type or a Mustang. Though that’s still an unbalanced comparison because F-Types are AWD now (although rear-biased) and the base Mustang is down on power a bit compared to this, but a GT and higher have more power (and stick…

Yes, and probably if you turn off traction control. 

Freestyle wasn’t RWD, had the theater-style roofline, and was/is very obviously mid-’00s. This is thoroughly modern (except the shape of the headlamps) and RWD-based. 

...why? The Aviator is supposed to feel like the more premium vehicle. You won’t sell many for the price difference if all that’s different is the badge, grille, and exterior lights. They tried that once already.