I’m too lazy to look up a picture, but the third row in the Range Rover Sport is similarly ridiculous. I’d imagine they’ll move the second row forward just far enough so that the children’s heads have somewhere to go. And, more than likely, no one will order it thus-equipped.

Then you would be interested in the R500, which is a V8 minivan that can probably be picked up in that price range.

Absolutely, positively, NONE of this cars major components are shared with a Pacifica. This is a GL with less ride height. The Pacifica is, I believe, related to the LH cars. They have about as much in common as a Chrysler Concorde and a Mercedes S-Class.

Would it be too much of a stretch for them to make a GTI Sportwagen? Seems that would be about perfect.

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How do you feel about the infotainment system? On the whole, I don’t mind it that much, and the screen is good, but there’s one thing - for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to set the ‘custom’ drive mode. There’s not enough play in the settings for a car in this price range/competitive set. Hoping I’m just…

Can’t say anything to the exchanges (cost of business, in general, is just much higher in Europe - that has to be counted somewhere) - but that’s always been my problem with the Macan: By the time you’re up to a decently equipped GTS, you’re into Supercharged V8 RRS money, and we’ll into it by the time you get to a…

Does that price include an obscene amount of rev-hang that every auto journo will conveniently forget to mention in the review, or does that ‘feature’ cost extra?

I actually find the thought of an Acadia in Germany quite perplexing, much much midi than a CTS-V.

All of these answers are bad, and everyone should feel bad. There IS a correct answer here, and it’s a first-gen Hyundai Genesis sedan. A cat that was actually designed to be both upscale, but impossible to identify. The classic rwd proportions and moderately upscale bent are perfect for the ‘respectable businessman’…

This is actually a really good question. I just assumed it was 100-20, but didn’t consider 80-0. Hoping the former, for battery life.

I mean, you could go GM Atlas 4.2 out of a Trailblazer, and in addition to matching the displacement, you get an extra 100hp, more revs, and a much better sound. And miss are available for more power - believe it or not, people will remove a Toyota I6 from a Supra and add an Atlas. Can’t remember why exactly,…

Ah, that explains a lot. Looks like the sedan is basically just a Buick Malibu, which would raise lots off cries of dirty old badge engineering. Much smarter to only offer the suddenly trendy (and much better looking) liftback, and possibly the wagon.

Oh My God YES! Liftback all of the things that already look like liftbacks!

Haven’t even rather trashy ones appreciated to way outside of his budget, though?

JLR’s pricing structure is indeed very strange. $15k will take you from bare-bones to a V8 with a ton of equipment on a Range Rover Sport, but will only get you a re-tuned version of the same engine and a little more equipment in this car. And then the whole ‘sales are terrible, maybe we should raise our prices’ thing…

QContrary to what Jalopnik would have you believe, up until recently very few Land Rovers were leased, as the money factor was absolutely horrid, and they didn’t really do subsidised leases. It was actually cheaper to buy the damn things.

Interesting - where do you live that you feel they’re prevalent? I usually recognize them, because if the writing on the hood and the taillights that don’t look finished (to me), but it is always possible that I don’t notice them, as they otherwise look just like everything else in the US. I do seem to always see…

Indeed. People aren’t gobbling up G-Wagons because of their amazing off-road capabilities.

I dunno, I’m seeing this as a very iffy move, for the US market at least. A lot of people who bought the LR3/4 did so because it visually looked a class up from the competition. This looks sort of (but not really) like a knock-off RR up front, and like [Insert SUV Here] from the side and back. And, while I’m sure…