Uhm, Beetle, Mini, Challenger, ... Plenty of companies have been doing some variant of this. 

Correct use of “myriad” noted. Reid McCarter will not be reported to the grammar police. 

One more winter driving tip: keep your distance from other cars.

-Put on very good snow tires.

They leaned heavily into that car when it came and even did a TV commercial voiced by James Earl Jones (Darth Vader). Go check it out...

I never noticed that. I’ve had three e39s and I remember the high cluster on one of them, probably my 2001 540i. I have an e46 330xi now and it as the low one. I recognize because it recently had a brake light bulb out and I remember noticing htat picture from below. 

I recommend a book to you called ‘The Design of Everyday Things’. Numerous chapters merely on the subject of doors, their appearance, and the push/pull issue. 

I remember that! I bought a ‘95 Accord in 2004 with low miles. That car was a beast. I drove it cross-country several times and it always operated mechanically as if it was brand new. Sure, I did oil changes. But that car felt like it didn’t need them. It was mechanically infallible--Honda at its engineering peak. 

yeah, actually, as I read your post, I saw the pattern emerge. I think from Subaru’s corporate POV, the Impreza is the cheap base model. So the Impreza and all its siblings do not get the fancy stuff. But Outbacks and Legacies (?) do. 

Subaru was an early leader on this. In the early ‘80s my parents had a friend who had an old pos Subaru that had this (so the car may have been from the 70s). I remember thinking it was very cool. Then my mom got an ‘82 Subaru, then an ‘84, and those had these. They seemed so futuristic when I first saw them. Great,…

Lol. Pretty funny.

pics are backwards for race car...

Yep, tuck in the tops of those nostrils just a teeny bit more, and it would be about perfect.

Mebbe to hang the shoulder belt over, due to the long coupe doors? 

Except they’ll call them the M4 gran coupe, and the M3 GT, or something like that. 

I don’t hate it as much as some might. It’s not completely un-linked from BMW’s history and heritage. See the 327/ 328 etc.

I guess I’m okay with some price wiggle, so it (just for my opinion) can go above 40k, but boy would I like to see a company commit to keeping weight down. An e90 m3 was about 3,375 lbs. An s2000 was under 3,000. The Toyaburus were under 3k. If they can bring this in under 3,400 then it could be fun as heck all day to…

The main thing they need to do is rake it forward—not necessarily the grill, but the yellow surrounding rectangle. If that rectangle leaned forward, it just might have the right look good. 

@ Andrew P. Collins, you really should promote this photoshop to a front page article tomorrow; “Nissan’s global design team taken behind woodshed and humiliated with 10 min photoshop by Jalopnik user crankaholic”

What a great fix.