Couldn’t have said it better mysef.

GT350 R, unless that’s one word too? Frankly I can’t be bothered to check.

I would pre-order that video game, immediately.

Yeah for a second I forgot this was ‘80s GM we were talking about. Silly me, my initial assumption was that they’d create a new mold for that targa bar to incorporate the CHMSL. But you’re 100% right that the GM approach would be to just drill some holes in it, slap an add-on piece there, and call it done.

No place to charge one right now, so the daily driver is a 2020 Giulia Ti Sport Carbon. It doesn’t suck!

I mean true but are we actually calling this a luxury car?

It absolutely was an afterthought, the CHMSL was mandated for ‘86 I believe. That being said I don’t understand why GM would go through the trouble of re-engineering an exterior panel just to add that bump.

Never selling my 3.2 Carrera. I don’t have kids yet but they’re in the cards, and they will eventually inherit it.

Never selling my 3.2 Carrera. Don’t have kids yet but they’re in the cards, and they will eventually inherit it.

Aesthetically speaking though these wheels are proportionally too small for the vehicle. Considering they were aping the E-class, there would need to be at least another inch in diameter, probably 2, to get the look right.

100%

Can I just point out that GM’s choice of CHMSL location on this vehicle is singularly terrible?

No doubt the recognizability is there. I wouldn’t say that the homage/parody aspect necessarily makes the design timeless, though. Companies make “homages” to designs from Hublot, Richard Mille, and others which are emphatically not timeless designs and not even trying to be.

I look at this as almost satirizing the trend of the square and minimalist watch with something exponentially more expensive. It’s a form of one-upmanship which I feel like a lot of people who can drop low-end Acura money on a watch will appreciate.

As a mechanical watch person who is baffled by the widespread adoption of smartwatches, I love this idea of parodying that form factor.

That’s a B9... It’s been a few years since I had my B8.5 but turns out my hazy memories of how I tuned it (with APR) were pretty accurate.

Buy better-made goods and they’ll last indefinitely. Holtz leather, Thursday Boots, Filson... they’re pricey, but you won’t have to replace them anywhere near as often. The trade-off is that they take a while to break in, but I end up re-soling quality boots multiple times before there’s any noticeable wear.

‘FIRST, they stopped making comfortable seats in the name of “safety”.’

300hp, +/- 10%, is the correct number.