Happens all the time too. Last time I went car shopping at a dealer, I showed up preapproved for 18k and after test driving the car we came to look at, the salesman started just bringing cars around for us to test drive. The cheapest one he brought around was 33k. We left.

Where were you an hour ago?!

So you want an interesting car, just not like this one because it’s not the right kind of interesting. Different is ok, just as long as it’s not different like this. No you’re definitely reinforcing my point.

Ahh I see. Make it interesting, just only with obtuse angles. Where do you stand on right angles?

Jalop: “I hate lazy, boring automotive design. Make something interesting...”

Ok, this was a good one. Most of these have just been people being assholes, my story included. Touche.

Obvious troll is obvious.

When I was in college there was a new at the time A6 like the one in the lead image that arrived for class about the same time I was leaving two or three days a week. Every single time (not exaggerating) I saw him get out of his car, he slammed his door into the neighboring car and it was just such blatant disrespect…

I could see that, I guess. Honestly, I just get annoyed by people saying things like “They should have made X car, but cheaper” as if prices are pulled out of thin air and not based on what it costs to make the things. Then when a cheap sports car comes out, the same people complain about it having poor quality and…

You’re so edgy.

The only way a modern NSX would cost 60k is if it either A) was horrible or B) inflation weren’t a thing. Adjusted for inflation, the $60k NSX in 1990 was a $112k car. By 2005 it was selling for $90k which adjusted for inflation was, not surprisingly, $112k. And that’s the base model.

Ferrari is Italian for blacksmith.

The only thing that makes it less plausible is that Maserati is no longer Ferrari’s sister company like they were when the MC-12 was designed. Fiat sold off Ferrari in 2015.

Yeah you can totally fuck something up on purpose. You’re right. I feel so upset that I’ve been denounced for thinking a car is horribly designed. Nevermind that my z3 has better visibility with the top up and more legroom/headroom in the driver’s seat all while having a wheelbase the size of the charger’s hood. It’s…

A feature can cause a bug and that’s exactly what happened here. High beltlines are the worst thing to happen to modern cars (although they’re actually done for crash safety in general not styling). Combine that with a sad attempt to make a sedan look like a coupe (also a stupid trend) and you make a huge car that has…

My 4'2" sister in law hit her head getting into the backseat damn near every time she got into the one I had as a rental a while back. As massive a car as it is, it’s shockingly claustrophobic inside and has horrible visibility. Not what I’d call roomy.

Yeah let’s go ahead and let them pass and I’ll get right on mourning those bloated monstrosities.

No doubt it had good performance for the era, but you could only drive it at night in poorly lit parts of town.

Yeah they definitely improved after GM purchased them, but the real turning point in Lotus reliability was in the mid-00s when they stopped using the Rover engine in the Elise and started using a Toyota engine and transmission. Ever since then they’ve been pretty good especially for a low volume sports car.

Touchy subject for you? Ever since the Elise gave up the Rover powerplant in the mid-00s, they’ve been pretty good. They’ve used a Toyota engine and transmission ever since (including on the Exige and Evora). Prior to that, no. Hell no they weren’t reliable.