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Rian Johnson is the best. Best movie of the holiday season 2019 and 2017. 

The Q60 looks great! ... on the outside. Then you step inside and realize it has the same interior as the Q50 from 2013 (as a 2014 model year), which wasn’t great back then and is lapped by everyone else today.

To be EIC of a publication like that, you had to toe a line for a long time. The problem with the Conservative movement at the moment isn’t that “pension is more important than country/faith,” it’s that any word of opposition gets you tormented by the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES plus his rabid fanbase turned on you

I agree. I couldn’t believe how cheap the Guilia felt after sitting in it back to back with an IS350 F Sport and Audi A5/S5.

I mean it’s pretty obvious:

Bahahaha

I completely agree. The minute they brought back captain fan service, I knew this movie would play it safe (read: boring). TLJ demonstrated that Star Wars could be so much more...

Nothing matters because it won’t come to the US. :(

People don't typically cross shop compacts sedans and large SUVs.

Yeah. There’s lots of people that don’t want a bigger car but can afford more car... so the performance variants are perfect.

Yep. Someone recently did a review of the CLA35 and it stickered at nearly $65k after options. With the Golf R over $20k cheaper, probably more comfortable and definitely just as fast... why the hell would you not get the Golf R?

In all of the newer redesigns (starting in 2017ish, I believe), they got rid of retractable screens. For a few years they did the “stick it on top of the dash” (see: Q5, A4, A5 and their variants), and then they switched to the new “integrated into the dash” as seen in the new A6, A7, and Q3. 

Agreed. 3 of my last 4 cars had hydraulic steering (MK6 Golf R was the only one that didn’t), so I’m biased toward favoring that. The Audi is obviously not as good, but Dynamic Steering definitely didn’t improve anything. 

The RS5 is a $40k car with a pile of performance upgrades. That’s why I specifically called it out for not being worth the price jump, considering my S5 stickered around $65k.

No, I wasn’t a fan. It felt... artificial? Weird? I put my standard setting in “Dynamic” mode to increase the heft (coming from a Golf R and E90 3 series, among others), and love it.

I had a SQ5 loaner in that color and it got a lot of compliments.

Yep, it drives me nuts. I really liked the retractable screen, especially with the all digital dash. My current favorite interior design is probably the modern Volvo with the screen + some physical controls. 

See I was the opposite: I started out with S4 vs A5, because they were much closer in price after common dealer discounts but... the blue S5 on the showroom floor made it difficult to ignore. I also like that the S5 sits lower.

I’ve had a S5 Sportback for 22 months now, and my feedback on it:

I’d be a Lexus buyer if they would update their engines to class competitive and update the IS & RC. The IS is a nice car to drive, it just needs a new version to keep up with everything else out there from the Germans.