For me it’s an issue of technicality, and though my Hyundai isn’t exactly a penalty box when it comes to interior quality, the better interior materials of the Mazda isn’t enough to sway me away from the options and features I would either need to give up, or spend MUCH more money on. My N-Line isn’t exactly an awful…

The addition of this puts the Mazda3 into my list of candidates. The sedan though, not the hatch. That blind spot is god awful large for the sake of styling, and I find the sedan more handsome for the price of practicality.

I’d just go “rogue”and buy CX-5 Turbo AWD, flash the ECU, and slam it to the ground.

The straight pipe wasn't an indicator of potential abuse?

Read the reviews...

Read the reviews...

Oh. You were serious. Why did you reply if you didn’t get the joke?

Well then clearly, good sir, you must be an avid bird watcher!

It’s too bad you can’t just wish an aggressive, resilient contagion away, huh?

Is it worth it being a cut-price X1? 

Oh goddamnit! It doesn’t work for me? Whyyy? I’m hot, and I keep getting... whatever these are! I guess I should be thankful it doesn’t think I’m a bird. Shit.

Well, I mean, money can’t always buy taste...

Well, you know, he’s not wrong...

I love it, I just wish the 2.5T came with AWD on the GT.

For certain years, yeah. And true their old 6AT was pretty solid, but, they worked out pretty much all the bugs of the DRY DCT anyhow.

As a member of the “acronym”, I TOO sometimes find myself guffawing at the acronym’s length these days. I mean, we go around breathlessly trying to convince people that we are NOT size queens. Then this silliness pops on up.

Surprised you guys didn’t try to partner up with, say, Out Motorsport for this sort of thing.

It wasn’t 100K. It also was an expensive vehicle with a yellowing screen. That being said, I don’t care what the price is.

Ehhh too expensive. I’m interested in something more mainstream, or borderline entry level luxury at best.

Nah, I’ll never try to get around it by blaming my husband. Besides which, I’m the one who chases the shinies. Not him. And he doesn’t care either way, so the management wouldn’t be convinced it was anyone but me ;)

Yeah I figure it’s not a slouch, and I have nothing against it. I respect it, it just doesn’t really move the needle for me.