I’m with you - the GTI is just a better all around vehicle and oddly more fun. When you hit $40k in the BMW (which is still the base model with a couple of options), the Golf R is sitting right there. When you’re shopping in the A3/2-series/CLA range, it’s really hard to justify those over the VW offering.

The wing not being available is actually doing potential buyers a favor. It looks like the kind of thing you’d buy aftermarket on eBay for $150 including free shipping that would get installed at the same time as the fart cans.

Just like forcing the NFL to revert protective gear of the ‘50s would save football, the more armor you take away from cops, the more they’d be forced to change their tactics to focus only on protecting and serving their local community. We should all know our neighborhood cops by name and they should do everything…

“You are comparing the Chinese crackdown on protesters to what is happening now?”

That’s nothing. Some COLLEGE police departments have their own BearCats

Why didn’t these assholes just go and join the army where they can be rewarded for pissing on humanity?

I live near there and worked in Walnut Creek for a few years. No, there is no conceivable reason they should have that machine. 

I remember when we used to be against governments that did things like that to their citizens.

You and I shared the same thought!

I wonder how often a police department for a city with a population of 70,000 actually needs a Lenco BearCat.

Cop 1: Ugh these assholes are blocking us.

“If you do not move, you will be dead.”

Oh yeah, that’s some “To Protect and Serve” shit right there

/s

J.B.CARS made this render.... all I can say is... aftermarket, do your thing....

It needs to be refined quite a bit but I think it could work. Like what the fuck are they thinking with those beaver teeth????

We came up with similar ideas, but I used the new grille to make mine.

This is an absolutely MASSIVE improvement.

So this is an extremely rushed photoshop job, but here’s what it could have looked like with a smaller grille. I literally grafted on the grille/middle bumper from the previous 4 Series lol.

Can someone please photoshop a normal grille on this thing so we can show Justin how much better the car could look?

The whole floppy shifter thing kind of got my wind up.  I could just hear Edd China in my mind, happily popping linkages apart and back together, saying, “...and for just a few minutes and a few quid, that’s one irksome little problem, sorted!  Let’s crack on.”