That ridiculous touchscreen, 160 mile range, and Tesla's joke of a dealer network make it a toy for the wealthy and self-righteously arrogant, not actual transportation.

Elon is "too smart" and "too forward thinking" to be concerned with any of your pedantic DOT requirements.

...and I'd be seen dead in the Charger before this electric abomination.

You're kidding about the EPA stance, right? If/when the EPA gets involved to help the consumer, Musk will just blame big government for meddling and the customers for driving it more aggressively than he anticipated (all with self-righteous snark and arrogance).

Almost ANY manual transmission coupe that clean would get a "NP" vote from me. Although (yes, I know it's a weird cross shop) I'll say that if I wanted a rare FWD euro coupe for this kind of money, I'd buy another clean first generation Volvo C70, because you can get twice as much HP to the wheels and leather.

I don't believe you.

Sure thing - I'll just go down to my local, privately owned dealership here in town and...NOPE.

I can provide a hundred examples - and none of them will look like they were designed by the same guy who penned the Oldsmobile Aurora when he/she was tripping balls.

Yes - I would. I would submit that I have owned (meaning lien-free title in hand in my name) more cars than 95% of the people on this site, and the VAST majority were manual, RWD cars.

3.1 seconds to 60, but it's still a hideous toy of a car designed by and for "non-car-people".

For $1,650 - this would be NP. Maybe.

Think back to the 2000 draft. Brady is chosen in the sixth round, the seventh QB selected. If Brady goes ONE QB draft ahead (to Cleveland, over Spurgeon Wynn) - would anyone outside the most devout Michigan fan even remember his name? I say no. He's the Emmitt Smith of this generation - a decent enough player who…

Five cylinders for $5K would just be a list of nice manual Volvos.

First gen CTS-V doesn't have much on my 335i (in the real world) - and it's the same money. The second gen certainly does, especially in wagon form.

Oh, I know - but brown manual wagon is the "Jalop special edition" In the real world, I'll take a gray / silver like the rest of my cars (BMW calls it "Sparkling Graphite", Volvo calls it "Titanium Gray", I think it's called "Stealth Gray" in GM speak).

I feel your pain. It's like when Buell was part of the Harley-Davidson dealership network - no matter how good the bikes were, the dealer network was unintentionally destroying any credibility they had.

Yeah, I read that. I'm an "early adopter" of Tavarish's advice - being in my 40's and only once buying anything newer than five model years old (back in 1996). This article is written very much at guys like me - who could spend $50K on a new car, but won't. That does mean that my dream manual CTS-V (brown?) wagon…

The two worst parts of Corrado ownership are rust and how many parts are Corrado specific, even down to years. I recall reading am Insurance comparison list for the repair cost of an average 10 MPH head-on collision (Progressive, perhaps) - and the Corrado was MORE expensive than an Aston Martin.

Every BMW M-series >> Every AMG (within the same class) - a large part of that is because of BMW's gorgeous manual transmissions. If the CTS-V wasn't offered with a manual, I wouldn't lust after it nearly as much as I do - and my e90 335i is neither fail wheel drive nor four cylinder.

You lost me. You copy/pasted #10 - the Z3 (off eBay as directed by the contest title) to prove what, exactly?