BMW is more-or-less there already. Their gear selector is such an abortion that messages appear on the dash instructing how to use it.

Better headline:

The rotary dial is less awful than the ‘return to center’ shifter in the article, but it’s still not as good as a traditional shift lever. I’m very rarely uncertain about what gear I’m in with a traditional lever, but when using a dial shifter I found I had to visually confirm every time I changed. It just seems like…

Or just saw the cops laying the spike strip and decided something amusing was about to happen.

And you may ask yourself
Where is that fun automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my Mitsubishi Eclipse
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful coupe

Have car manufactures run out of names and are resorting to recycling old ones?!?!?

The one thing that takes this from being the most awful vehicle in the world to a winner is the cab access from the bed. BRILLIANT!