The macan comment is “as a lifted porsche hatchback that’s not really a CUV/SUV/WhateverUV” - I have about as much interest in a Kona, Niro, etc as I do in a full frontal lobotomy.

Make one I’d want to buy and we’ll talk.  The Lyric/Cadillac family are not it (I’m not in the market for medium-sized luxury SUVs), and the ones that I would be in the market for (...  well, maybe the Blazer SS) don’t have tech I need.  Sorry, but not interested.  Make cars.  I don’t buy trucks, and I don’t buy SUVs…

Same.  This was the golden age of “we’re all adults, we can fuck off for a night and play Gears - since we’re too poor to buy anything newer yet” and still have fun.  Freedom, not a lot of disposable income, just playing games.  The silver age was with WAN co-op on zombie CoD 3 years later (and L4D), and those are…

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.