am I getting old or are you really young?

In the southeast, no.

CP. Spend around double this and you can get a nice example that doesn’t have dents and pealing paint.

You put a sub-2500 Miata in front of this group? Talk about a lack of suspense. You’re walking into a prison with a handful of pardons.

I think just about 50% of all high school students had a beat up one of these in the late 90's.

Because people drove them into the ground, did zero maintenance to them, then bitched when they fell apart?

I come to Jalopnik for MEH Car Monday...basically. Best thing you guys do. Also, is it weird that I find the Talbot weirdly endearing?

Neutral: As part of the monarchy of car designers, VW was never going to suffer long term for this. Actually, in my comment here I predicted this. When a company gets big enough they are no longer held to the realism that the rest of us are. Think about it, VW could actually send a car out with a trunk full of dead…

Everybody complains? You mean car journos. They make straight bank, daily and that is literally the only reason for them to exist as a business. The rest of this is enthusiast handful wringing. As long as they have some sporty models they are fine. Halo cars are required when you don’t already sell the M3 or M5 or the…

I preferred the older 60's and 70's rock at the time, still do some days.

It is short-sighted. Without such a “halo” car, BMW assumes the attitude of GM in the 70s. That is: “people will keep buying them, because that’s what they did last year”. Even GM sells a semi-super Corvette. If they don’t do another M-1, maybe they could make a 3-series that didn’t cost a fucking fortune to maintain…

‘blob’ pretty much covers most domestic product design language of that era in the mid to late 90s. also ‘fisher price’ and ‘tupperware’ would be acceptable.

I can’t remember when it was, memory is the first thing to go they say, but the first time I heard Nirvana(I’m in my 4th decade) on the “Classic Rock” station my heart briefly stopped... I was officially “old”.

But does it have to be so ugly though? :-(

You can buy these in cherry condition for $30k all day long...no way in Hell I’m paying that much for a beater.

My issue with BMW as of late is that they’re losing the restrained German styling and their stuff looks and drives like Japanese cars, but without the benefit of reliability or resale value. I mean look at the back of that thing and tell me it would look weird with a Toyota badge.

Awesome, a Rogue for the badass actuaries.

People who defend keeping the power output of the BRZ low are also often the same people that bag on the 10 year old, yet 332hp 370Z, needing an overhaul to hang with $45,000 Mustangs. It makes no sense. Don’t try.

Cayon carving and driving on twisties is fun and all but it still has to hurt easily getting passed by base model family sedans.

I really hate this concept people have of our bodies being filled with unnamed “toxins” ready to kill us at any moment, and in order to ensure our survival, we have to go out of our way to “flush” them.