Agree on your points above (ugly grill, touch screen controls, boooooring plaid seats but still patterned), however, VW sandbags their power figures and your Regal is carrying around an extra 700lbs. 

I mean... if a swastika had five spokes, sure.

My thought was this would be a self limiting problem in a car in Dallas in the summer. Just park it in the sun for a hour and you will top 150 degrees. 

I’m sure it will be old white males.

This complaint is as old as sports cars. People complained that the Aventador was too mellow compared to the Murcielago, which was complained about compared to the Diablo. I think it’s safe to say the over 90% of the readers on Jalopnik would not be thinking “humdrum-mobile” if they drove a Corvette anywhere near its…

And the overarching thing that hovers over this is the fact that its a $60k car. A price that places it SEVERAL times under the cost of pretty much any other car that is remotely close to it. That it seems to be fairly decent to drive and doesn’t have a shit quality is pretty amazing at that price point.

No, I’m assuming social security won’t even be viable by the time we are ready to retire and we will have plenty in 401k/IRAs/other investments so I’m not too concerned. I’m perfectly content with how much I’m currently paying in taxes(for all those roads/police/fire stations/gas/water/schools), I just don’t want to…

Come on, you took a jab, you had to know you were going to get responses.

I’m no fan of the president, but this situation generates zero outrage from me. Or even concern. 

I’m pretty sure they make Manuals, they just didnt give her one to test.

Didnt read the rest of the review after I saw it was automatic. This is such a far cry from what made the R53 JCW so fun.

I will never take your pun threads for granite.

The boulder got knocked 30 feet away?  She really was stoned!

Whats the point of an automatic Mini (“Mini”) again? Speaking as a former driver of a first gen New Mini (which was a blast). I mean... why would I buy this over a Golf R?

Fourty two thousand dollars,,, for an automatic, fwd, sub-250hp hatchback....

Here’s my 2011

The 86 is a different platform, isn’t turbocharged and is a flat 4 not an inline 4.

WHY ARE THEY NOT PAIRING A MANUAL TRANSMISSION WITH THIS

This. I’m not saying those other cars aren’t great cars. But dam that viper will make you smile. It looks ridiculous, sounds awesome, and you will smile every time it tries to put you into a tree and you recover.