Get over it? Every company throws out a pile of shit when it comes to marketing. The story of “we just took the old car and made it better in virtually every way” isn’t as sexy... even if that’s really all they had to do since the biggest problem with the old 370Z was the outdated interior. 

Can you just get a somewhat newer Cayman instead? Probably cheaper to maintain too.

I agree. I love the idea of this car but as a daily commuter I prefer a bit more comfort.

This always falls on deaf ears. They don't care, they just like to complain. Like when they whined endlessly about super cars they'll never even buy used losing manual transmissions. 

There are test mule pics floating around that show a fastback coupe, pretty different from the Civic profile (Car and Driver included them in its write up).

The world needs more hatchbacks.

Those were a feature to encourage the “fun”! Duh.

I don’t blame Kia corporate for trying. It’s literally the car people keep asking for... it’s just they don’t set the same level of standards for their dealers as even Hyundai does.

BMW, Audi, Cadillac, Volvo, Genesis... literally anyone else.

Personally I never seriously considered this car because it required dealing with the shitty Kia dealers in the area. 

This is the obvious answer. I cannot believe they skipped legs and went to thighs.. unless they were far more cost advantageous (which I assume to be the case).

Oh there’s a few for me, and I’m always annoyed when multiple of these options are missing:

The mk8 golf R interior is significantly worse than the new S3/rs3 interior, even just from a usability standpoint. Go read or watch some golf r reviews, literally all of them complain about it.

I’d take the Sportback. I love it. I’d prefer it in the S3, but if they only offered it in the RS3 I’d pay the extra.

Theyre making a new rwd 2 series coupe. So at least that will be an option again soon.

The mk8 is full of capacitive touch buttons instead of physical stuff. 

The hide-away screen was amazing, and something I wish carried over (see the Audi TT for the perfect interior). However Audi did a study for owners of cars that had the hide-away screen (Q7 and A3), and it turns out owners rarely put the screen away. So they removed the feature and went with a static screen to reduce…

Not sure if you know this, but if you get the heated steering wheel in the S4/S5, you get the standard round steering wheel.

I would buy a S3 hatchback without hesitation if it came here. A more attractive, better featured Golf R with an interior that doesn’t frustrate the hell out of you. The sedan version doesn’t excite me nearly as much. 

But I was totally going to buy a manual Ferrari next year!