Bowl aside, where is it not real world to cruise at 75+ on the highway?

That guy works in my office, too, except my Guy™ is a climate alarmist who thinks the world will end in 10 years and is buying a bugout bunker in New Zealand to survive the nuclear fallout once the rising sea levels cause all nuclear power plants to explode.

Meanwhile, EVERY GT4 owner I know tracks their GT4.

Nobody dailies a GT4.

I don’t get it.  What does this mean?

I share your reliability prejudices, but apparently MINI/BMW are the 6th and 7th most reliable car manufacturers, respectively.

Yup. There’s 5 of them in the series.

Wasn’t this the plot of Home Alone 3?

They’re still missing the X4/X6 market.  People like SUV coupes.  Lexus should have coupe versions of the NX and RX.

Lexus doesn’t even try to compete. They make 10 cars, the most powerful of which has an engine from the Carter Administration, and an infotainment system borrowed from the GameBoy Color. Meanwhile, BMW offers 16 cars (21 including MINI), with any combination of engines, drivetrains, and performance options.

From their United States sales figures:

I’m no scientist, but I’m pretty sure rally cars work on gravel just as well as snow.

Technically, all of the above are CUVs since they have unibodies instead of body-on-frame.

Why?

“...create an SUV nobody wants...”

It’s funny really. Cadillac banked on making sportier cars than BMW, and they succeeded. Faster, more powerful, more nimble, superior chassis’, etc. And nobody wanted them. The performance came at the cost of interior quality and engine refinement, and nobody was fooled.

Same problem: you have to plan ahead.

One massive benefit to an ICE car is the ability to park it outside indefinitely.

Yep.  Wasn’t actually a Tesla-branded supercharger, but rather a 350kw charger at an Electrify America station.

The Miata’s price is not a problem. Its lack of colors is the problem.