As someone who’s tried to upgrade his car from one iDrive version to the next, I can tell you it’s more than software. If your car didn’t ship with upgrade compatible hardware, it’s not happening. Most of the hardware is different, including the computer, screen, controller, and gauge cluster. I can’t speak to the…

I mean the BRZ/GT86 showed that if you build it, they won't come. I love sports cars, but even I would be disappointed if Nissan invested in this project when their bread and butter models are so goddamn terrible. They would never make the development costs back on this model. 

Toyota and Honda showed us that if you cover the volume models well, you can do fun halo projects.

How do they come back after this? They had so much going for them ten years ago and they squandered everything.

1) Do you trust this guy’s rebuild quality and the parts he used?

BMW didn’t kill their sedan volume, consumers did. They actually invested more than ever in sedans, but nobody is buying sedans across the board. Doesn’t matter how much money a company throws into their sedans, buyers continue to flock to SUVs.

‘75 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Monticello red velour. They had a Blue Monticello velour version too, but this is particularly zany 

There's something odd about the world's most barren backseat having such a whimsical color scheme 

I don’t agree with that. In 2010 they had 3 sedans. For a total of 10 trims (528i vs 535i, etc). Today that have 6 sedans and 20 trims. They didn’t kill their sedans - they actually expanded their sedan lineup dramatically. They just expanded the SUV lineup even more dramatically.

I think it’s a modest improvement on an already handsome car.

If I think about it as a Mercedes, $5k is a fair price for an early 2000s SLK with a manual and 109k miles. But factor in the cloth seats, Dodge Stratus interior and the fact that it’s becoming damn near impossible to find someone who can fix electronics on these means an NP.

This isn’t entirely correct. Nice click bait headline.

Furloughed Tesla employees are collecting unemployment, just like 30 Million other Americans are. The difference between them and the rest of America is that their TSLA shares have quadrupled in less than a year, while everyone else’s 401Ks have been halved in the last month.

Whatever device you’re holding to post this is made in China

As a rule of thumb, don’t general any demographic of people with negative stereotypes. Whether you think so or not, your quaint anecdote is a negative stereotype of poor people that conflate symptoms with cause and completely ignored societal issues that keep people down.

Exactly. You can finance an $10k car, but not even buy-here-pay-here lots will bother with a loan on a $2k car. You got to remember a bank would see that car as basically junk that costs more to reposess than its worth. Banks don’t issue car loans without collateral

You’re also expecting people living paycheck to paycheck have $3k in cash, because nobody is going to finance that for you. And any car you can find for $3k these days is going to be a unreliable piece of junk, unless you get lucky. So you better have another $1k to $2k on hand to immediately repair the car you just…

As a tall person, the idea that CUVs are better is a myth. They’re designed specifically to help regular people sit higher up. That means the seats are closer to the steering wheel and the pedals are closer to the driver to give drivers an upright seating position.

I have a 535i of the same generation and it fits my 6'4" body perfectly, with lots of room to spare. Tall friends can even sit in the seat behind me.

What is the car on the picket signs in the header image? And why is it there?