It was an, in my opinion, absolutely hilarious joke about the srt-4's most well know handling characteristic which was understeering into things, namely trees.

Pretty sure that’s a lambo, dude...

I think I can help you...

You’re right. There are WAY too many trees in the world and we need more overpowered neons understeering into them to cull the population.

*Hemi Under Glass replica

I once bought a non-running Camry off a friend of a friend with the intent of fixing it and making some money. Turned out it just needed a timing belt so I had it running by the afternoon. The problem was, homegirl had to get a new title and after a few weeks she just randomly moved across the country. I fought with…

Nah, I’m not really interested either. The car is awesome. The racing series he runs it in is awesome. Watching him dick around in it like an attention hungry high school kid who hasn’t quite finished puberty yet isn’t really that entertaining.

What’s the rich person equivalent of “Cool story, bro”? Because that’s the body language i see coming from most of that crowd.

Insurance + awareness of mechanical state of car = no reason one should every have to run out and buy the first car they find in their price range.

This. I wouldn’t be so adamant about bringing V8 Supercars stateside if NASCAR ran more than a couple road courses.

Now imagine how the drivers must feel...

That support group would quickly devolve into surfing Craigslist and making bad group decisions.

If you need a car right now, you clearly weren’t aware of or were neglecting the mechanical state of your car and not planning well enough that you DO have time to research and buy a cheap car...

Splitting hairs over whether ore not to call it a defect is why i disagreed with you. It’s a very clear product use defect and whether you want to call it a design flaw or defect doesn’t change that they didn’t design the shifter for foreseeable misuse.

Unless those dominant players know VWs plans, partnerships, company and talent acquisitions, projected volumes, and current development progress, then they’re speculating just as much as you and me.

Hoping that single judges you by what your drive is very “BMW" of you

Not really... You can find very decent/semi-cool/interesting cars for cheap. Not new ones, but that’s not a problem.

You’ve clearly never designed consumer products...

Not having appropriates safeguards against foreseeable misuse is absolute a defect. It wasn’t a mechanical, electrical or software defect, but it was a product use defect which is something we’re expected to design out of consumer goods.

Clearly dominant players mean literally nothing if those players are unwilling to put the capitol investment into your vision of the future.