That would explain why they don't allow him to speak.

316 is not much past 300 so my statement stands.

I wouldn't do it either but I see the appeal (and I'd rather see the car saved with a heart transplant than sent to the scrap heap).  

The poor video quality reminds me of the very first Top Gear rips from "Jabba" that all had the awful sequence from Jedi in it...

BMW themselves said it would destroy their brand image.  

Let's try again.  Ad from BMW a few short years ago which states:

I always saw that as a knee-jerk reaction to the Allante.

Been there done that.

I don't know, from what I hear one doesn't simply plunk down cash and get a Ferrari.  One must buy a used one, establish a multi-year relationship with the dealer having it serviced, and then if you're lucky you can put down a deposit on the car that will replace the one you are interested and perhaps in 5 years or so…

Hatchback = cheap in US design language.

Infiniti used to sell the G20, which was just a poorly gussied up Sentra.  Probably the worst entry level luxury brand effort by the Japanese.

I'm tempted to also mention the Integra/RSX but at least they were still fun at some level.

Oh hai

CLA is also wrong-wheel drive

This.  Remember the 318i we used to have here in the US, the BMW hatchback that looked like a Hyundai?  I'll also throw in the similarly-hatchbacked Mercedes C230, or as I liked to call it, the Mersaturn.

It takes special talent to make something real look fake and cheap.  See the leather seats in my 4th gen F-body.  Real leather never looked so fake.

They already did an (american) football challenge 2-3 weeks ago.

Look at the reviews.  It's written for the Consumer Reports crowd.

In the Ron Cadillac backstory episode I was really expecting the bad guys chasing him to be a rival Lincoln dealer, and they were driving a Lincoln....

To balance out this dose of sleezebag bile, how about an update on Lenny the Batman, Jalopnik?

But like the Kardashians, why is he/it so IN YOUR FACE?