Looks like the biggest thing they got wrong is that they put a real manual transmission in it. It’s getting pretty difficult to find those in normal boring sedans these days.

I had a Karmann Ghia with IRS, not the older swing axle setup, and the rearward weight bias was not a problem (unless I was braking in a straight line on wet roads). Sure, it would oversteer, but it was pretty forgiving and controllable oversteer. I’m not sure it would’ve been as easy to handle with a swing axle.

Great. A semi that can do 0-60 in 5 seconds. It was bad enough when minivans broke into the low 6-second range. Now every Internet “car guy” is going to piss all over any sporty car that can’t do it in less than 3 seconds as “slow.”

If that’s the way it works, then I’m tempted to say count me in. I have no doubt that I’m strong enough to open the door, and agile enough to GTFO quickly.

Jesus! That is far and away the fastest car I’ve ever not wanted.

1983 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Brougham sedan, with an 8.1 Vortec engine swap.

Man, I’m tempted, but not sure I want to drive all the way to Anaheim.

I wonder how much they made off the views, too. Should help give them a nice start.

It looks like an M5 with a cheesy body kit (because the 3 is huge these days). It probably has the same numb steering all 3-series have now. It’s heavy. It’ll certainly break all the time and be an expensive nightmare when it does. A Giulia QV or a GT350 will smoke it.

Exit row? Middle seat? There’s two things I never do. I’m not gonna be sandwiched between two disgusting strangers, and if there’s an emergency that requires an exit, I’m getting the hell out of there first and everyone else can fend for themselves.

I think it needs more creases and bulges and stuff. Maybe some more blacked-out bits. It doesn’t look aggressive enough.

Neutral: I don’t think American consumers would like having car dealers contact them or come to their homes, and they’d probably prefer to handle the insurance themselves. Just seems to be crossing some personal boundaries for this culture. So I wouldn’t say the kind of service is what Americans want, but the quality…

I’d take the V12 if I were buying one, merely because it has an Aston engine. If I wanted an AMG engine, I’d buy a Mercedes.

Hmm. Too bad they’re not using a Hemi. It’d be another link to Iso’s heritage. Guess Sergio wouldn’t sell them any.

Aw, 403? I was hoping it was a W72.

It’s not what I’d choose to spend that kind of money on, but it’s in such nice condition that if I saw it in a museum I’d certainly spend a few minutes staring at it. Interesting car, but ultimately not my thing.

Never, actually. Just riffing on what a couple of friends who lived there recently told me. For what it’s worth, I’d still like to visit the place someday.

It’s cool, but it’d be cooler if it had a giant airbrushed mural of a wizard smoking a bong on the side.

It’s like, how much more blue could this be. And the answer is “none.” None more blue.

Ah, France. Dudes pissing in the streets and sexually harassing women in all public spaces, people who universally refuse to clean up after their obnoxious little dogs, air so polluted with diesel particulate emissions you can taste the film in the back of your throat for weeks, cheese that smells like a corpse’s…