I’m not a purist but I’m also a BMW owner who isn’t planning to buy any more BMWs. The new ones have no steering feel, CarPlay is only available if you buy navigation and then pay a subscription, and Android Auto is nowhere in sight. Meanwhile the base model Hyundai Elantra I just had as a rental has both standard. 

It’s not fwd, it’s awd with an eLSD on the front axle.

Boost is based off a pressure differential, with 0 being atmospheric.

“Boost” generally is indicating the pressure increase above standard atmospheric (14.69... psi). So if your boost gauge says 40 psi, the actual pressure is 54.69... psi.

471 hp is slow now?

I have BMW’s “Oyster Dakota” leather which is creamy white in my car. It doesn’t transfer blue dye from jeans but I do have to clean up elbow grease spots on the armrests from time to time.

Those difference exist. There are, in fact, several of them.

I arranged them in ascending order of price/size.

COME ON DOWN!

They’re all very similar, but to me the Sentra looks almost identical to the Altima, and only very much related to the Maxima. The Maxima has more fussy surface detailing and the chrome part of the grille is a thicker bar with a narrower ‘V’. 

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.