Good point, because as everyone is fully aware, there’s generally an abundant amount of extra room in most mid-engined cars’ engine compartments. In fact, it’s so hard to work on my front-engine cars I’m often wishing the engine was in the middle to have more space.

I think it’s because it’s eschewing what made the production Corvette so unique, and in a sense that’s a fair complaint. A lot of folks take VW to task for releasing the New Beetle that was just a cosplaying Golf rather than a true air-cooled, rear-engined car, and it seems like this is in the same vein. I think this…

What happened to the shifter.

He may as well punctuate his sentences with gunfire.

So this whole thing sounds like BMW is opting to sit on their hands and half ass electric vehicles, just in case for some reason they don’t have to.

It feels like they got a Facebook invite to the electric future and responded “might be going”.

Soooooo......

When I lived in NoVA there was a 4-way stop leaving my neighborhood. I had to make a left at this intersection, and one morning I see a cyclist coming from my right. Knowing that most cyclists are entitled assholes who don’t think stop signs apply to them, I waited to see if he’d stop. Predictably, he didn’t and just…

Yeah, I was gonna say a “F you I’m ridin’ heah!” probably works just as well

Actual question: aside from cost, no reason you could not more easily import a full electric car, being that there is no emissions concerns, is that right? 

You’re not getting it in America. You’re getting this instead:

Sounds like we enthusiasts need to organize and form a foreign car “Bring it Stateside” lobby. There’s too many of these bad boys that don’t make it to our shores.

YOURE A LIAR MR. LUNDEGAARD! A... A... A fuckin' liar. 

The dealer’s F&I was trying to get the guy to buy every add-on he could, so the guy was stuck at dealer for 6 hours. Typical dealer upsale

Well, I checked with my boss and he says I can knock $100 off that TrueCoat!

Actual exchange with Finance Guy:

“Then they have to tell you how bad your purchase is and the manufacturer’s warranty isn’t good enough to cover the catastrophic failures you’re going to experience in the future.”

They apply dat trucoat at the factory dontchaknow.  I'm sooorry, but i caan't do anathing about it.

That’s a little vague. Could mean consult your astrologer and wear a red pantsuit to the dealership (warning, this reference is at least 20 years past the use-by date).

Do you ever get a blank stare back? I made Bill Clinton “did not inhale” reference the other day and an intern looked at me like they had no fucking clue what I was talking about.  I went home and drank. 

Generally speaking, most people don’t like conflict - and view dealing with car salespeople as a version of that.