Or require it be a clutched manual, but with any number of gears and ratios. 4 speed, 7 speed, etc.

I could do without the wheels, but if it’s really 486hp to the wheels (from 415 at the crank, ie a good 100-125hp upgrade), this isn’t your standard air intake and generic exhaust.

Maybe not if you grew up on Cadillac’s “Art & Science”, but there’s a generation or two who will always consider Cadillacs to be “old man cars”.  The SS is a great low-profile alternative, same as those old Legacy GT Spec Bs.

Scary thought:  transverse FWD platform + enough redirects to have 30% power loss + same engine = <100 horsepower make it to the wheels

You’re arguing with a Brooklynite for whom the occasional drive around Manhattan is a hipster act of rebellion. Like owning a tv, but doing it ironically...

How dare you question yet another “I spend all my time in the same 3 square miles of New York, drive every other Sunday as a hobby, and can’t understand why people who live in states the size of entire countries would want more than a 100 mile range or ability to accelerate onto a highway”

Agree on both fronts, I was just thinking an exclusive service upscale buyers could tell their peers about as an alternative to run-of-the-mill Mercedes or snoozefest Lexus would be a great way to avoid the Mondeo/Cimarron “mass appeal” route.

Remember when websites didn’t have 90% of their content dedicated to third party bloat?

Same, but comment notification links are hit or miss, either taking forever or dumping me at the top of the article half the time. For what should be a very simple website, I can’t figure out how it’s so junked up.

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You really can’t see a difference between the US owning nukes, and North Korea & Iran?  Seems like the world is separating into nations willing to act in their own interests, and those held hostage by moral equivalence

People booking extras or booking and canceling is part of why they have to build in a certain amount of overbooking.  Give up cancellations, and they’d be able to book much more tightly.

I’m sure it’ll last forever, but in a world of direct-injected, twin-turbo’d, 50hp/100lbs-ft from a chip engines, I’m too bored to care. High performance engines (and cars) are no longer finicky to live with, and with reliability so high across the board, the marginal improvement of the top ones just isn’t a selling…

Just for fun I looked, and the smallest Toyota you can get a V8 in is the 85k Landcruiser (unless you count the Tundra). On the bright side it has 381hp/400lbs-ft.

I wouldn’t bet against that. It’s more that every car is so much better than just a few years ago, that the marginal gain by jumping from the one with 130 issues per 100 vehicle to 108 issue is vanishingly small. Same deal with an extra couple mpg when you’re getting 30+ instead <15.

Don’t know about that one, they’ve been in trucks since 2011 and have plenty of 200k+ mile examples out there...

People who suffered through 80s/90s domestics, read Consumer Reports auto-recommending Toyota for the next decade and a half, and put their purchases on autopilot ever since.  Hyundai is starting to make a dent, but the “CR says it’s reliable” crowd who remember actually unreliable cars aren’t looking at Mazdas (or…

At least the Explorer would get you the 3.5TT.  This thing’s top engine is an ancient 295hp V6?

Huge improvement over the predator face.  This and the new RAV are some of the least unattractive Toyotas in years.

Europe’s countries are the size of our states, and their trains only need to service a handful of super-dense cities.  We are a country the size of a continent.  Same reason everybody doesn’t have South Korean fiber internet:  because we aren’t all crammed into 3 high rises in Seoul.