Agreed. BMW should immediately fire everybody at their ‘Ring dev center and move operations to Stelvio or the Tail of The Dragon or something. This obsession is killing them.

More bullshit excuses for penny-pinching. If you can get a Tremec 6060 in a friggin’ Viper, you can get one to handle a Turbo BMW six.

The Eject function on VW’s is disappointing.

Here at Crazy Guinney’s Crazy Idea Factory, we’ve got Crazy Ideas!

Agreed. And with Brexit and the Great Orange Tariff Machine even the Sport hatch seems on borrowed time.

Camry. Accord. Optima. Sonata.

*me looks at line-up full of CVT’s and decades old platforms

Except they’re not developing them. They’re buying them from ZF or Getrag or somebody. And conforming them to the car is a pittance when you look at it like I do, as a promotional device. Keep the enthusiasts happy and your reputation will follow. BMW is still riding it’s cachet from the 90's-00's, but the tread is…

Between this and the phones coming from Oppo and the like, I’m starting to feel the dark times creeping up on us again.

I do know a woman who buys an Accord/Camry every six years and drives them into the ground every time. She roadtrips around the southeast once a month. She’s a prime CR customer and treats it like gospel. She also thinks I’m insane driving around in manual Bimmer’s and Fiat’s but hey, different strokes.

I come here to lend my Axe to Tom McParland on this. Evora is the correct answer. And I HATE to say it, but it may behoove you to not get the manual.

Can anybody do the math: At our current rate of airbag envelopment, how many years before we go full SecureFoam?

I go to the Buick website about once a week hoping for a miracle. A de-cladded Tour-X. I mean Volvo saw the light and lets dealers order a de-cladded V90, perhaps Buick will? Please? I would actually buy it.

I had one of these, but this era’s Volvo Interior was craptacular. Well styled though yes.

A decent car ruined by “Twilight” product tie-ins. Was interested til my friend squee’d “It’s Edward’s car!” and I was out.

Somehow, this just got a LOT more appealing.

And where’s the manual?

As other’s said, it’s the ordering that confuses a ton of US dealers. They’re under pressure to move steel off the lot NOW. Ordering what the customer wants is just crazy talk to most of them.

See, this is a mistake. Aside from the “nobody buys them” argument, enthusiasts aren’t formed from the ground like Uruk-Hai. They’re created in their teens and twenties when they buy that third hand E46 with a 6 speed. They grow up. Go to college. The one day they CAN afford that M4. These folks, like me, should be…

Yeah I agree it’s pretty clear we’ve got a few more years of slugging through this uncanny valley of animation. CGI cell shaded character stuff on the cheaper side is still just awful.