This is an intermediate step. Eventually we’re going to find ourselves in a reality where gasoline is at most a niche product, and the way things are going it might be within the next 30 years or less. 

My BMW is a 2011 and the nav is comically bad. I had the maps updated a couple years ago by a coding guy who was doing some other stuff for me but I haven’t bothered since. The POI database is super incomplete and entering anything letter by letter with the iDrive knob is tedious as hell. The voice guidance doesn’t…

This ain’t debate club. Congratulations on your self-declared victory in the comments section of a car blog. 

Your ineptitude at engineering and English is only surpassed by your attempts at armchair psychology.

Wasn’t me.

It’s encouraging to me that the 302 hp motor with front LSD from the X2 M35i is proliferating across the Mini lineup in the JCW trim level, but so far it seems like anything smaller than the Clubman still gets the 228 hp X1/X2 28i motor in the JCW. Well, except this goofball.

I agree with that part! Especially the current televangelist version of Kanye. (But not with hating all hip hop music.)

Sounds like you’ve got bigger problems with the world at large than people calling wheels rims. 

Yes yes if we’re being precise about it a rim is part of a wheel and not a whole wheel, but calling wheels “rims” is a common-enough turn of phrase that correcting it is getting farther into the weeds than is really necessary. Of all the hills to die on, do you really want to make this yours? 

For some reason the ad campaign for the Seltos in India features an anthropomorphic maybe-evil secret agent meerkat, and a lot of calling stuff badass.

It’s not a kleenex it’s a facial tissue. 

You’re right, there are lightweight forged wheels out there, but these CF ones at 18 lbs each are still saving 4 lbs per corner relative to your example. That’s not insignificant on a performance car like these. 

I didn’t say it was weird, I only provided it as a comparison to the Escort RS Cosworth since both are boxy hatchbacks with double rear wings.

As a resident of the Maryland suburbs of DC, I feel like DC will have tougher sledding towards statehood than Puerto Rico, but both are pretty far off.

We got the original in limited numbers, but not the follow-up.

Both generations of the Mazda 323 GTX are like the understated, less-bonkers cousin of this.

If you were referring to the previous owner instead of me then you should’ve said previous owner. Because what you wrote sure looks like you were calling me an idiot. Congratulations on being both a bad automotive engineer and bad at writing the English language. Who do you work for? I want to make sure I never buy a…

Those LA lefts sure happen a lot here in DC too.