Oh yes.  The G35 was great.  The G37 was good.  And then...  the Q was bad. 

The funny thing is - that engine made 10 less HP than their V8 at the time (50 less tq, I think), and weighed FAR less than the V8 - it was actually the better choice till the Hemi came out much later. 

I WANTED to like the CT5-V. I did. I actually like the outside look. Inside looks fine too. Performance is fine.

Value proposition exists for every car outside of the super/hyper market.  The M340i costs 10k more - that’s significant scratch no matter how you spin it, equipped equally - and I ain’t driving a base model 340i.  Ugh. 

I would. The new iDrive 8 interior design is ... well, garbage is doing a disservice to garbage (and I have two BMW in the garage right now, including an M550). In addition, specced equally, the G70 is 10k+ less than the 340i. Sure, the B58 is an amazing engine with a hellacious aftermarket - but I’m buying a car to…

Would have been interested, but I’m not paying for OnStar, and with no Carplay or Android Auto support it’s almost certainly going to be junk without the OnStar subscription.

I was in line for a gladiator till it ended up being a crew cab only - it’s too big for the places I want to take it, and won’t even fit in my garage. (Lots of jeep history here - 89 Cherokee, 96 Grand, 84 Grand Wagoneer, 16 Wrangler).

I used to motorcycle on that road plenty; still drive it not all that infrequently.

Still looks like a Camaro, and the massive tacked-on screen is cheap.  While I’ve very much finally aged out of the Mustang’s target market, I appreciate that it still exists - but so much of the design on this one feels mailed in compared to the flow of the last 3 building on each other. 

I know right??!? 

There’s enough muskovites out there - it’ll sell. 

That’s coastal driving. 200mi in Colorado, Wyoming, or (heaven forbid) Texas is “middle of nowhere” to “still in the middle of nowhere, just different nowhere, and you didn’t pass much on the way.” I cover major parts of Colorado and New Mexico for my job.  200 miles is EASY to hit - about 2.5 hours of driving in…

This assumes you have two cars; the majority of people (in that commuter loop) do not - or have two drivers for the two cars (hence one per person). Swapping cars with your partner/etc all the time or even somewhat frequently is generally non-optimal - and who is assigned the short-range city car?

You do you, but you’re an extreme edge case. 

I don’t like wasting my time listening to ads. I haven’t listened to the radio outside of christmas time in a decade. My music is on my server too - if all I’m doing is bluetooth streaming and using my phone to control tracks (or the blind next/previous buttons, which is stupid), then I might as well be stuck in 2009…

You think I paid for any of those trips? That’s my ~job~. Or was, at various points in time. I averaged over 80k flown miles a year for a decade; it adds up FAST when combined with rewards and credit card miles/etc. None of those trips were for me.  All economy class - but the miles work for anything later on. 

And that’s why you don’t think an infotainment system matters.  That’s nuts.  

1. All depends on when and how you shop for tickets. I’ve had more than a few flights where economy plus (my requirement; long long legs) to international business is 1k more - and that’s not horrendous when you’re talking a ticket that already costs 2k or so. It’s not a 10k/15k ticket like the old international first…

They do - but so does everyone else (find me a radio that ONLY does carplay/android auto - they don’t exist). Everyone has both side by side - except Tesla, Rivian, and now GM. Tesla can somewhat get away with it being the “first” and having to write all that from scratch (and the cultish following, as well as great…

It’s not 2010 anymore. I have access to the entire worlds music collection - why would I try sticking stuff on a thumb drive?  Between pandora, spotify, youtube music, apple music...  and my phone has 256G of capacity for whatever music I’d want to load on it - and can stream that wired or wirelessly.  Why would I…