Ha ha!

He needs to be charged with assault & battery, for certain. Plus he needs to be brought to understand that there is a small but significant chance of death every time someone is tasered.

Yeah. I am not down with the ALMS changes at all.

My Brother-in-law did that to his Red exterior/Red interior Ford Tempo years back. I felt like I was in a Bordello (or maybe inside a mouth) when I rode in that car, and the one time I drove it at night frankly terrified me.

..I assume you've driven one long enough to make this judgment?

Does the Passat count as a big sedan? It looks huge to me. I'd have to go with a Passat TDI.

#10 is wrong. Manual transmissions will disappear from appliance cars completely, sure, but they will still be around in sports cars and sport cars, and VW diesels. Just look around: three manual-ONLY cars just entered the US market over the last twelve months.

There will be manuals as long as there are IC engines. It will be a niche, like convertibles, but they will be out there.

Wrong. It will be a niche, but there will still be manual cars - even if it is just sports coupes & GTIs. And we'll still be having more fun than you haters.

Yeah, give me the old 3-spoke "Sport" wheel any day.

Oh, come on. Don't be so hidebound. If you're looking at that wheel, you're sitting in an R5 Turbo!

Pretty sure I see the same two, but man are they beautiful.

Maybe for tens of billions of dollars, and maybe not even then.

Music to Mazda's ears, that.

I thank Mazda for their continuing commitment to manual transmissions - however it can be frustrating to see certain options excluded from manual cars. What dictates which trim levels get manual transmissions for Mazda?

A bargain at $35k...

June 22.. Europe.. Explosions.. now, wait a minute..

Oh sure, I'd like to see a small-displacement turbo engine in there. I love me some turbos.