Every now and then I think of driving a motorcycle, and then I read things like “I almost died because I was leaning slightly too far back when I accelerated”

So I assume this will get positioned below the NX? The NX starts at $35k with a 2.0 turbo with 235hp. How much down market are they willing to go for sales? I’m sure they will sell a ton of them but still.

Disgusting. I can’t imagine how the same company that built my beautiful 2016 GS F-Sport built this. But people fall over themselves to buy these. When I was at Lexus buying mine in Oct last year, not a single person was trying the sedans. Everyone was lined up to buy the NX and RX and I bet this was sell too. No idea…

Ram 1500 4x4 5.7 Hemi 395 HP 0-60 in 5.something.

My question is why buy this over a Genesis G80 5.0? For the seats and fancy door handles? Neither are going to attract brand snobs but the Genesis in fully loaded RWD V8 form is like 20 grand less. And that’s for a platform that was developed from scratch to be a luxury car, not a heavily dressed $20k sedan.

Compared to the tasteful and sometimes opulent 2018 offerings from the luxury car maker likes of MB, Lexus, Audi and even Cadillac, the interior still looks about 10 years behind. I guess they are catching up sorta, kinda? Maybe in another 20 years they’ll be all caught up. Wake me then.

I dunno; I’m seeing quite a bit of Highlander in there.

It will be. Have you ever driven an X3 or other entry-level BMW? Brand erosion, along with driving experience and everything else that car companies used to care about has been replaced with one thing: Shareholder value.

And yet owners of the 7.0L C6 Z06 routinely observed 26-32mpg highway, which is better than both the current 911 Turbo and the fancy new hybrid NSX.

God I wish they would put the 1LR-GUE V10 from the LFA in this car.

It all seems very abstract to me—were I in the market for a Grand Tourer I’d have the excellent-sounding Lexus over a faster German rival any day; it’s not as if all that power is ever going to be used by the target market, and I’d think the experience is really what matters. But then again, if that were the case,…