Option 1: Your definition of “pretty useful” is really, REALLY loose. Ergo, you are soft in the brain.

I intend to star every well-stated shoot-down of Patrick’s patently asinine premise for this article.

This a thousand times. The X6 need not exist because the X5 exists. They took the X5, made it ugly, LESS useful, and MORE expensive. All downgrades.

Oh yeah?!? Well then how’d the buggy WIN if it was dumb? Everyone knows winning proves you’re right! Roll Tide!

Well in the meantime, I’m going to hop in my armchair, strap on my quarterback helmet, and pontificate recklessly based on the couple seconds in the GIF:

Yeah I was wondering if he selected the Polish ball for that reason...here I go speculating about Hungarian and playing internet detective, when he nailed it right out of the gate. Sigh.

Update: internet sleuthing reveals that it is likely Polish, as the uploader uses Polish in some of his video descriptions.

I recognize “kurva” (or however it’s actually spelled) from Hungarian (literal translation = “whore” but it gets used more like “fuck/fucker/fucking”, kinda like “putah” in Spanish meaning “bitch” but used as “fuck/fucking/motherfucking”).

Oh and I forgot to mention:

I’m with you...and it’s tricky thing to figure out. The overwhelming perception/stereotype (and like you, I am at pains to emphasize that this view is not always fair or well-founded, but that it exists nonetheless) consists of 3 categories:

So...the apology is for:

Ehhh I think it needs more time in the cask. 10 years ago it was modern and sleek, and perhaps 10 years from now it will be classically proportioned, but at the moment it has too much 90's suppository styling in it.

Ooof. That may actually be worse. I’ve seen a few grey wheels that didn’t look bad in the right context, but the black wheels trend can’t die fast enough.

Well, so far we have Rob and Smokey10 on the record not liking the chrome version of C5 Z06 wheels.

I had this photo in mind, too lazy to go find it and figure out how to insert it. Much obliged.

Me: Ew. The 90's called; they want their midlife crisis back. I’ll take my $25k elsewhere and go just as fast without screaming to everyone in earshot that I’m a thundering douchebag.

For me, it always comes down to maintenance, or rather, lack of it. I am terrible at getting around to fixing the little things that go wrong, break, wear out, etc. as the car ages. Obviously some things must be fixed to keep the car running; I’m not talking about those things. I especially have a hard time with…

Ah but I have, and in a V8-powered RWD sports car on summer tires, no less. I’d have preferred more appropriate tires, but that wasn’t in the ever-limited college student budget so I got by. Turned out to be no bother at all, except for one brief and terrifying battle between black ice and stability control.

He said he prefers AWD, not that it was a hard requirement for him. I set about (admittedly harshly) persuading him that AWD wasn’t important, and that dropping that preference opens up many more attractive options.

Oh hey I just noticed that the S63 coupe is AWD. There’s your answer if you insist on AWD. Or the Range Rover SC someone else recommended.