The car I actually want is just over $50k, so I’m going to Be Different and go with this bucket of monkeys right here:

While STI didn’t do anything to get more power out of the engine

Right, but this is the classic issue when a brand buys another that is a tier above them. Ford doesn’t want it to look like Volvo is the superior brand. Hell, sometimes I think Ford struggles with the Lincoln nameplate - and that’s been their luxury marquee forever.

It’s unfortunate, though not terribly surprising, that Jaguar has seemingly lost a chunk of its history to Ford’s annals.

I hadn’t been in a manual transmission for a few years for myriad reasons

Still looks like a Camaro,

If you keep in mind residuals then cars like this seem more affordable. 

You can’t make things cheap without first making them expensive.

Add two more of a similar age and get back to us.

And you can’t blame them. Drivers, especially post COVID, are fucking insane.

Just weight? It would seem to me to make sense to include miles driven as well.

The band Pitchshifter had a song in 2000 called As Seen on TV that poked at this very issue.

Just about everyone here wants the exact opposite of what mainstream buyers do. Every star your comment gets should be taken as evidence that EVs need to get bigger.

Peak power figures with a tune are less impressive than the power curve improvements. Stock EBs drive like a diesel, all torque and no reason to rev past 5k.

Good news - the four door Mustang of your Gen X dreams is already available!

Care to explain why and what you’re looking at instead?

Every solution to appealing to younger buyers that doesn’t involve the car being cheaper is wrong.

I do appreciate that companies are still targeting millennials as “the youths”.

Available from 1987 to 1993, this is the Mustang Millennials had on their bedroom walls.

No need for the /s. Hyundai and Nissan are both offering 0% APR on select vehicles.