Even if it was more like this?

As usual, this is irrelevant.

Classic.

Lotus should return to working with the large manufacturers to tune and create performance models. Like the Cortina, or when they were owned by GM and made the Carlton, the ZR-1 and others.

I'd be fully on board with them making a small or mid-sized sedan, or even a hatch/wagon, but for god's sake don't make an SUV.

Yeah, we know. He's called the shredder.

The E24 in question is the M635CSi. There was an E12 M535i and an E28 M535i, but neither were officially sold in the US.

There is an FTO in the background as well. I wanna woomp woomp that too.

Porsche Boxter burns down

Dear Cadillac:

How exactly the CT6 will be marketed with a V8, I do not know.

Sounds like a Connecticut news channel.

April is still like 7 months away

Or, perhaps, Hollywood is telling us that they agree with Jalopnik, and that real super cars need a stick shift, even if rich super car buyers are incapable of operating a manual transmission and won't buy anything but an automatic or a flappy paddle electric shifter.

so this floods the rear compartments? doesn't seem very humane

These two images explain why we'll never see this in the States:

You assume the only benefit to a manual is the fun to drive factor. What about the repair factor? The maintenance factor? The I like this thing and would keep it forever if I didn't have to worry about replacing the transmission every 5 years factor? That tdi engine will outlive three or four turbos, but I would…