What I meant was the markets this truck was originally designed for and has been sold in for a couple of years already are primarily ones where a manual 'box is the main transmission option. And because no-one wants a manual column-mounted gearshift, because they're horrible to operate, deamnds the shifter be mounted…

Because of manual gearboxes available (or standard) in other markets.

Get off your dang phone and pay attention to the road instead. You're in charge of a ton+ of fast moving metal. You have the privilege of driving, not the right, so respect what you're doing.

The thing with 200 is, McLaren kinda struggled to sell the first 100. The market's different now, obviously, but dropping a million dollars on a car in the mid-nineties wasn't something a lot of people were willing to do.

2015 Subaru WRX with some performance bits and a used Lotus Elise.

Oh totally. Half of the classic Mini's on US eBay are clearly '90's models. They are not 1960's-1970's era cars 'modernised' by enthusiastic previous owners.

Is this real? Please tell me it's real. I don't want to live in a world where this doesn't exist outside of photoshop.

You had me at RS4.

I don't actually think they'll ever build the Quattro concept, sadly, but one can dream. And they do still occasionally demonstrate greatness (B7 RS4, the R8, the new S1), so I'm not going to give up on them just yet.

At least the last five years of Audi RS products. Fast they may be but don't think for a second they're drivers cars with lifeless steering and inert chassis. You could almost forgive this of the larger models, but the likes of the TT RS should've been much, much better. And now all we've got to look forward to is…

You're a traitor to the cause, sir. Please leave you membership card at the door!

This thug:

Yikes, yeah, the VXR is 30k in the UK, which'd be $50k. That's puts it smack bang in the CTS' territory.

Well I presume I actually where you are, but yeah, I can't really fathom why they don't sell the full fat version in North America. Maybe they thought it would cannibalise sales from the Caddy ATS? Dunno, the American is one big weird mystery to me.

Exactly that. It's a neutered VXR, so instead of AWD and a V6, it gets FWD and a Turbo 4. No one knows why, it's like the turin shroud or something.

Well if we ever get another Ford Cosworth, which isn't likely, we can all keep our fingers crossed for AWD. Until then, if you really want an AWD Cosworth, there's a Subaru WRX that funnily enough, wasn't that good.

How DIDN'T it prove itself? Every review, including those for the barmy RS500 praised the set up for the way put the power down and kept the wheels from just spinning out. The MS3 isn't even in the same league as the last-gen Focus RS. Its like comparing a M3 to a rental-spec Mustang: just because they both have some…

Yuss. People need to stop associating the Cosworth's attributes with the RS range as a whole. They are and have always been, 2WD loons, and that now means FWD.

Not really sure why people always get so worked up about the Focus RS having AWD. The RS Cosworth had it because it was really a Sierra RS Cosworth in drag. Meanwhile, the only Escort RS to get it was the Mk 5, and that was a retrofit because its handling was RUBBISH. There's no pedigree to justify it, and the last RS…

Linwood was also where the bodies of Volvo's P1800 were built when Jensen subcontracted them there. The quality was so bad that Volvo ended the contract with Jensen early and brought production back in house.