A Mazda 5 feels like the perfect choice here? It is a Mazdaspeed 3 on stilts with no power and front wheel drive. Comes with a stick and is very fun to drive. RX-8 wheels fit on them to sport them up a bit. Put snow tires on it and they go through winter just fine.

If Larry Chen approves we should all approve, dude is a certified Z uber nerd.

“While the GV80 does not share a platform with these SUVs”

Maybe manufacturers should work on creating the ultimate autonomous demo derby car first then after the AI knows how to destroy they could use that data to build one for the roads. Plus I would 1,000% watch a person less demo derby.  

So after friends and family pricing, the normal GM discounts, and a 10,000 mile lease deal over 35 years your monthly payment will be around $500. (sarcasm)

Location... Helena Montana FYI. Multiple SCCA Clubs autoX there.

Thank you, and the obvious competitor is the Honda Pilot.

Well if they are not going to respond to you then I guess I am not going to buy one.  

SCCA needs to keep moving in this direction. Track Night in America is a great program to get people driving on track. We also need more car manufacturers to do what Toyota did for the Supra, include a free NASA (or SCCA) track event. Driving a car on track is addictive if you get people there once they will very…

Z06 either C5 or C6 will work and be a perfect evolution for you.

This is the only right answer.

I highly recommend trying the V8 M3, I can’t remember the generation name. They are amazing cars and pretty roomy. I love the E46, but after driving one of the V8's it blew my mind. It has much of the delicate feel of the E46 but with a V8. The sound is also amazing.

The handling is related to the size, the current 3 handles like an older 5 because it is the same size. BMW still gets handling right, it is just that the cars are in the next size bracket now. The 1 is about the size of an E46 and handles very similarly.

This is really a case of the car doing what they wanted, just not what we want.  We are in a time where there really great GT car options, but few great sports car options.  GT cars have become able to do most of the sports car stuff so most people are OK with having a nicer car that does the sports car stuff slightly…

These things are like super cars, people buy them to be seen in them not to actually use the performance (with some exceptions to the rule). Mainly because there are so few places to actually use the performance. So most of the time you are left with an overly wide truck taking up too much space in the parking lot.

You are uninvited to Tetris Night :)

A friend has the hybrid of this and I have multiple times tried to get into someone else car after lunch because there were multiple in the parking lot.

I told my wife one day that in Montana trucks outnumber cars. She was like no way. 2 days later my count was trucks were 52% of all vehicles seen. If you remove Subarus it gets really ugly for cars in Montana. SUVs were not included.

I really hope the designers included some Easter eggs on this. Maybe a huge mural on the backside of the hood showing one of these giving it to a Jeep doggie style.  

Exactly, you could haul a ton of sand or matchbox cars, BUT if you take this thing to Ikea you are 100% going to be pissed off when half the boxes that would fit inside have no way of getting inside.