Me too. I mean I absolutely hate Hyundai so I’d never own one, but I do like the look and concept. If it was a Mazda I’d have one already.

Was going to say the same thing. Residuals are going a lot lower not only on Stellantis but on a lot of cars. I actually just leased my Giulia a month or so ago not because I actually wanted to lease but because the rate was so much lower than a finance and so the low residual was actually a good thing in my situation.

The ACC on my Giulia lets you get pretty close, close enough that if I’m coming up on someone going a lot slower I’m always about to brake myself. Cool thing on a lot of the sportier cars too is it’ll accelerate back up to speed harder if you’re in sport mode.

Why haven’t they made adaptive cruise control standard? Because some people don’t like it. It’s the one thing she doesn’t like about my car, that it’s got ACC and you can’t turn it off (at least we don’t know how to). Her Macan is normal cruise and she probably wouldn’t have gotten it if it had ACC.

Ok, it’s pretty cool, but it’s really depressing that 1. we will probably never see any Lancia on our shores ever again, and 2. we’ll probably never see another gas-powered Lancia anywhere.

Mid-late 2000s Chevy Impala. You got about an equal chance the driver is either a rural retired Karen, a bunch of government guys in trench coats, or a tourist in a rental that’s gonna drive it like an Altima.

Similar to the paintball thing, I’d like the ability to digitally “tag” other cars anonymously. How many times do you see someone doing something so blatantly stupid, dangerous, and illegal when there’s no one around that can do anything about it?

Well, WE know that.... The cult of Musk that’s actually buying the things, not so much.

Yeah not really all that different from people who buy into autopilot/FSD and get into crashes thinking it can drive itself versus other manufacturers that don’t oversell adaptive cruise control.

Those are close too, these are the Maybach wheels

Great job on them making an actual good design, shame it’s too good looking to make it to production with their current lineup. Those wheels though, they’re a blatant copy of Maybach’s wheels...

He said manual or a good auto/flappy paddle, and you can get them with the big fixed paddles and the zf 8-speed which is the best torque converter auto out there. There’s plenty of them out there for that price off-lease that are still new enough to get a Mopar warranty.

Aw damn I was hoping someone here got mine. If you’re thinking about any upgrades AWE makes an awesome exhaust for them.

Take a serious look at the Fiat’s Italian sister Giulia. 280 hp, big fixed paddles, one of the lighter small sedans out there, surprisingly reliable and cheap Mopar extended warranties. They’re easy to find around the $25k mark with decent miles but you could push it closer to $30k for a CPO one too.

Exactly. Any car with normal suspension and a normal amount of miles for that age probably needs its shocks replaced too.

At the time my BMW was the only car we had out of 3 with monostable stalks, and through all of my wife’s cars she never had them. Excluding a classic car we had at one point we never owned two cars of the same brand at a time. They all had different shifters (including one Mercedes with the electric column shifter),…

My point is the criticism to it always comes off as someone waving their hands around saying they don’t get it. I understand if you’re say working at a dealership and drive a lot of different cars day in and day out and get confused once. But every car has something that works a bit differently, hell shifters are all…

I just traded a 2014 335i that the dealer sent to auction about a month ago. Is yours an AWD manual black/black by chance?

This always comes up as a worry, that you’ll always be chasing after repairs. If it’s done right, that’s likely not going to be the case. Fact is people buy these well-used right around the time they get of failure age, so having a failure right away understandably feels like a problem. Or you only fix a part of it…

Yeah “would consider” is completely different. It’s like being tempted by the Temu ad and clicking the link, then realizing you better buy the real thing from Amazon instead...