I bought one of these. It’s tremendous. To answer the question of who would buy one of these versus a Cayman or M2: someone who lives in a place where AWD plus snow tires is necessary to drive safely six months each year.

They’re available for order in Canada now if you contact your Audi dealer. Ordered mine last week!

Exactly. Some of us live in, say, Edmonton, where there is zero chance that we will be hand washing our outrageously dirty cars when it is -30c outside.

Alternative spin: Americans may be about to discover what it feels like to pay for things in Canadian dollars. And being Canadian is cool these days.

I believe the only proper thing to do is to make them drive laps around a test track in a mediocre econobox.