Quilting was only true luxury for like a couple years, then it got tacky as soon as anyone could and did start to put quilted seat covers and floor mats from aliexpress in everything. The best leather with as few stitches touching your back is going to be much more comfortable and luxurious.

I’m pretty sure there’s a big difference in value and total number produced between the sedan you pictured and a coupe, much like the difference between a Bentley Brooklands Coupe and a contemporary Arnage.

From the article: “So, dear Jalopnik readers, what car company design direction would you like to submit?”

1. Rebranding Mustang to basically be anything, including a blob of an EV CUV

I’d suggest they do what they do best and keep older platforms around basically indefinitely. Now that the Charger is upmarket, they need a midsize offering, and the Giorgio platform is the perfect way to do it. The Avenger name is probably DOA, but they could honestly call it the Challenger since back in the day it…

1. Chevy SS

Yeah my first thought was Chevy SS. Then it was don’t live in goddamn New Jersey.

I think they’ll mostly stay hybrid too, but that doesn’t mean they’ll stay interesting. Like the new ferrari that’s a hybrid V6 and sounds like crap. Kids and dick-swingers will still like them, but for the average car enthusiast they’re a downgrade. Even in “normal” cars, look at the new M5. It’s fast as shit, but…

Depending on the manufacturer it’s not necessarily a better deal or even a better experience. It’s just a lead-generator where they set the prices like TrueCar. There may be an extra little rebate for members but it’s still the same going into the dealer and negotiating everything else even if selling price is set.

1. Get a pre-approval so you can do the payment calculations ahead of time.

The problem is it’s too easy to get crazy power these days, with normal electric cars verging on 1,000 hp. Yeah there are definitely very cool options out there like Pagani and Koenigsegg, but the big names are definitely getting a bit boring. McLarens all look the same, Ferraris all look the same and are going to…

I’m the same way, I wouldn’t even go that expensive though and have a range of classic to the last great modern era (2015-ish) with a focus on GT cars. Porsche 928, Alfa GTV and Montreal, 2014 C63, 1994 Viper RT/10, a manual Ferrari GT car like a 456, 550, or 612, and maybe a mid-2000s supercar like a Gallardo. Plenty…

But if everyone leases new sedans, they’ll be back in the market in 3 years, giving them time to come to market!

Aside from trucks, it’s gotta be the compact and midsize Buicks and Pontiacs of the early 2000s. They’re everywhere in small towns, where the repub to dem ratio is over 9:1

Not a V6. And pathetic? It’s the same configuration as an M3 with more power too. 

$199/month is only worth leasing if you are the type of person who absolutely does not care what you drive. If you care at all about comfort, quality, practicality, ergonomics (not being distracted by the tech while driving), feel, safety (assuming based on the quality of everything else), it doesn’t matter how cheap…

Nah, I would never take over a lease. It’s paying new car lease pricing (sure it may be subsidized but new cars are becoming incentivized again too) for a not-current MY car that’s not new, for a short term that’s usually the more expensive part of the lease service-wise. I’ll put up with a larger 30k/40k service bill…

Just, no. Miata sales are low enough compared to the rest of their fleet that they should only need to improve fuel economy to make it work. It’s already got a small engine, I bet just putting a better top gear for cruising would improve highway mileage by a lot.

I’ve driven one before and they are very cool. But, they all leak oil, and from what my tech said the leaks are always basically impossible to fix. You can chase it replacing basically everything and get nowhere, or accept it and let it progressively get worse. But it won’t ever go away. S6 we had for sale that I…

Well he posted the story because it was done in a way that didn’t really work well when things started failing. In the post he does say “Style aside (it looked SO rad)“ so obviously he thought it still looked good, which is where I say why...