Very few people will actually _want_ to be driving this car.

The FWD V6 Impala should have never have existed. The RWD V6 Commodore was better, in every single applicable generation.

There is a middle ground between “Boring family sedan” and “Wingo boy racer”.

Which is it, do you want pure handling, or do you want practicality?

Dude, you are all over the place.

It wasn’t a thing in the US.

Even if I take your premise on the BRZ model, they don’t offer anything else, either... and Subaru performance isn’t known for being a Lotus alternative... it *WAS* known for AWD Turbocharged high-value, high-traction speed and rallying.

Subaru - ALL of it??? No turbo BRZ, WRX and STI fundamentally unchanged and unadapted for the last 15+ years? Turbo options for other cars in their lineup are utterly weak.

No disagreement here. The 04 Mach 1 I used to have is still the most exciting car I have every owned.

I just nominated the Interceptor concept too. It was a badass answer to the Chrysler 300 that ended up as only sharing a roofline with for a mild restyling on the Taurus.

Ford Interceptor concept from 2007.

And yet I still haven’t done it, primarily because of the gulf between something I should do and something I must do.

FCA is only allowed to sell the same car for 7 years before they ARE REQUIRED BY LAW to engineer new platform.

I have a pocket knife with a ground down tip for prying.

I love Gumball Rally.

It’s a seat belt mount, and a bravery enhancer.

I drove across Kansas for the first time last summer. I think driving across Nebraska is much worse. Kansas, at least during the summer, was quite beautiful.

I knew Oreos were a knock off, but I didn’t realize that hydrox was so successful before Oreos. Looking through a quick history now, it looks like GM could pull an “Oreo” move if they have the design, engineering, and marketing chops to pull it off.

It’s usually the first successful product in the market. Tesla might already have this tied up, but maybe not to the point of all new EV’s being called “Teslas”

Likewise the EV market is seen as the future where everything is going to go so they want to be able to compete in that market before the market hits it’s saturation point and everyone is in the market at full power.