I was going to say that there aren’t many choices other then a G70 if you want a new RWD manual sedan.

Ford is making the same mistake with the Bronco, and I predict similar results.

At this point, a manual transmission in anything, is for people actively seeking it out.  Even when we bought our Fit - every option on the lot was an automatic, save for one.  Even people looking to buy bargain basement, entry level, cars want an automatic now - and, realistically, can probably only get one.

I’m not going to argue that a manual transmission makes sense in the G70. Honestly, they never should have bothered. They were dooming it to failure by making it and the V6 mutually exclusive options. It wouldn’t have sold enough with the V6 to keep it as an option either, but at least it wouldn’t have seemed like…

Its weird that they bothered even making them with manuals with only the smaller engine. They should've known only enthusiast will buy manuals and they would've wanted the bigger engine. It's like they did this on purpose to show everyone that nobody buys manuals so they can kill it from the line up. 

Mitsubishi would very much appreciate your 2 million

My new trillionaire fantasy is going to Mitsubishi and being like “call anyone who worked on the Pajero Dakar program 20 years ago and build me a singular brand-new street-legal SUV with a hilarious engine/transmission combo. Here’s two million bucks to get the ball rolling.”

I was just there a couple weeks ago

Yeah, he said in the comments that he misspoke. His brain did a “10 cylinders” to “10 liters” burp. 

There are many excellent submissions in the comments; I didn’t see this one so I’ll toss it in, as I rather like it. Early 930 Turbo “turbo” graphics on the rear fenders; always felt they gave off a groooovy vibe.

Not sure if it was intentional or not, but I assumed the “A” was supposed to be a road. Like this:

I couldn’t watch the video with sound and with no closed captioning made it useless for me except for one thing; I wish my wife looked at me like this woman looks at this guy telling the story.

I absolutely miss my M60B40 540i. I picked it up from a client of mine for cheap. $1500 with 150k on it. Yeah it had some physical imperfections along with some rust (thank you Midwest salt) but the thing had some get up. Changed to the stock wheels and headlights, did valve cover gaskets, new fuel tank strap, stereo,…

One of my favorite quotes, “The best engineering practices are no match for human stupidity.”

Let’s not call the M62 the best evolution, I drive an M62TUB46 daily and even though the cylinder walls are safe, I have to live with the fact that someday it’ll start rattling and that will mean I have to change the timing chain because BMW put plastic guides that eat themselves just for the fun of it.

When I see an AWD BMW I always think, “Really? You wanted your BMW to be MORE complex with MORE stuff to fail??” 

Isn’t RWD half the point of a BMW?

Having driven a 3500 with a Cummins and a 6 speed I can safely tell you there’s nothing too big to have a manual

“Too big to have a manual?”