He already has a BMW 3 series, so I’m a bit surprised no one mentioned the M8. A big, comfortable GT car with over 600hp and can be had in coupe or convertible form. Seems to be pretty objectively good looking, better driving than the LCF, and he’d be somewhat familiar with most of the BMW quirks already.

Asking the real questions.

Wait, Chevy is still selling the freaking Malibu?

^This. I’d drive one. But not one with 203 miles.

Yes! We all know how friendly the F1 was toward parents, with its carseat-friendly cutaway gullwing doors that made for easy ingress and egress of infants to their carseats, not to mention the 1+2 configuration for ferrying 2 children-in-carseat to/from school.

Boy, do I have good news for you

For the baby seat, did you try the tiedowns on the roof?

I had the same argument with the manual transmission. All the paddle-loving folks go on about how the DCT is faster, but its just about the experience for me. Honestly, I’ll take 3 pedals or just 1 please.

It’s really similar to watches. A purely mechanical watch, even the best-calibrated, most expensive Rolex, won’t come remotely close to the accuracy of a $10, off-brand quartz watch from Walmart. And no matter how many complications that mechanical watch has, it won’t have anywhere near the functionality of a basic sma…

The market for pure ICE enthusiast cars is not going to cool off much anytime soon. Even the impending recession is not going to have much of an affect. 

Pragmatically, there is going to be a market for performance hybrids for quite some time, it really is the better solution than full electric if you’re going to drive a car hard and you care more about handling than a 0-60.

“The whole idea behind the executive experience is to blend in, but not all the way. With this new styling it’s pretty loud. It’s a lot more “look at me” than buyers in the segment want.”

Never change Shane.

“High school with ashtrays”? Did you go to high school in Baytown, too?

As a friend of mine likes to say, “A man who don’t run his house ain’t got no house.” He, of course, never says it with his wife in the room.

Yeah, between this and not using ones turn signals is the most bimmer thing to do.

Third owner of a 2007 Z4 3.0si Manual Convertible here. Can confirm - has exceeded all driving experience expectations during my ownership period.

“What the hell am I even alive for anymore?”

A couple months back we went looking to replace our minivan and were thinking about upgrading to an SUV. Nope. We ended up with a ‘17 Kia Sedona because, even with the Luxury trim package and only 40k miles, it was a good 10-15k less than the SUVs on their lot.

One exorcist style barf by my daughter really needed a strip down to the metal in our minivan.   We traded it in winter so the funk wasn't as noticeable.   That level of clean and replace would easily have been over 1k.