Miata is always the answer.

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Can we get Terry to do a Jez Q&A??? Is someone working on that? Please someone be working on that.

The Navy likes to call them "destroyers" because that sounds cool and also sounds cheaper than "cruiser." A lot of political nonsense gets entangled with navy procurement and ship naming practices.

The wagon version with the LT1 please.

Apparently yes.

Sedan's suck, when you have a family you will understand why 2-door hatchbacks aren't exactly the easiest vehicle ever.

Sedans are pretty awful in general, I don't have a problem with this. Although I don't like the lifted part.

Not bad...

Then Morgan got their hands on one of these and decided to reproduce it as real car...

Agree. I have the base engine in my E60, and I don't feel any pressing need for more power. The car is just a joy to drive once you're in the right half of the speedo. For me, the extra second at the light and a top speed bump from 150 mph to, say, 180 mph just doesn't matter. I'm not tracking an E60.

It's definitely journalist lack of perspective. When you regularly drive top-of-the-line cars with all the options, making 300, 400, 500 hp, then yes, 150 hp is too little. Even 200 hp is too little. Despite such numbers being totally adequate in regular driving.

The new wording is better.

I think you're mixing up people who care with the great mass of people who don't. Just because we want 200 hp, that doesn't mean most people do.

In Europe, where cars are more expensive, fuel is extremely expensive and larger engine displacements are taxed to hell, people think frugality first, not performance. So 150hp is indeed generous. Americans, on the other hand, are insanely spoiled when it comes to horsepower, which I suppose is inevitable when you've…

In Europe, this car has a 1.3L base engine with just 99 hp

Here's my thought...155-160hp is acceptable in cars that otherwise have driving dynamics to add energy to the experience. Great steering/gearbox feel, solid brakes, and the right amount of starch in the suspension can make up for a little lack of oomph, because you're emboldened to wind the engine out and clip apexes…

The Focus and Impreza do pretty well with 150 HP