No 2020 MINIs have manual transmissions, brand image or not.  I don’t know what the take rate was but I would say 20% of the cars at our local dealer had manual transmissions when my wife bought her ‘19.

Did you start messing with it yet?  I’ve been having fun with my GSW. I found a quirk of the factory ECU mapping that my aftermarket tune makes much worse. Under a particular set of circumstances, it pulls fuel/reduces throttle, then puts it back in over a 2-300ms period, causing a jerk while accelerating with a…

My wife and I each bought new MT cars in ‘19. Neither is available with a manual in ‘20 (Cooper S, Sportwagen).

The 2.0 in my wife’s Cooper s is a jewel. Not boosted to the moon (189hp) but really smooth and torquey. Gets ridiculously good fuel economy too considering most of her drives are less than 5 miles.

I assume it’s inhabited by beings who would acquire the Taycan AND the GT4, which sounds absolutely awesome to me. I would like to live in that universe.

The rates of acceleration are defined in the tests though. How fast it could go makes no difference.

I think it’s pretty useful. Range matters when you’re going somewhere far away, usually on a highway where you’re likely to maintain constant speed.

See also: Mitsubishi

Yes, that’s probably the answer here although shipping logistics can be a big PITA. A friend of mine just moved NJ->Bay Area. He and his girlfriend made an adventure out of it by driving but arrival of his second car was very much an it-will-get-here-sometime experience.

It’s easy to believe a person would not want to or simply feel uncomfortable with a solo 20 hour drive. I might propose a daddy-daughter adventure but still...20hrs of driving? Does not fill me with excitement.

My father in law has been doing it for years on his Burgman 650 scooter. He was sick of buying rear tires.

It’s frustrating because it’s not legal but the cops can’t be bothered.

Ugh.  Italy in particular, where even the little shop at a random train station has a delicious selection of sandwiches, pastries, and coffee.

20 years or so ago, we were with a group that ended up at Applebees in NYC. My wife still brings it up!

Jalop cleanse.

Now that NJ ‘inspections’ are emissions-only, I see that crap everywhere, flinging road debris far and wide. Once they reach a critical mass, we’ll start seeing some spectacular F1-style wheel-to-wheel crashes.

I think assigning a single intent to “GM” is misguided. I’m sure there were plenty of EV1 cheerleaders internally. It was a HUGE effort to be dismissed as an exercise to show CARB no-one wants an electric car. They could have thrown some batteries in an S-10 for that.

“...create an SUV nobody (who cant afford it) wants...”

Epic trip.

Can you do a closed end lease that way? It would seem like the residual would be a complete crap shoot. What bank would want to touch that?