I hear you and glad you are voting with your wallet, but trust me these companies will be just fine without you - especially Tesla and Chik-fil-a. 

Yup - me and my family are brown and some members of my family are very openly racist behind closed doors. Typically against black people. I’ll never understand it given that many of them have faced their fair share of racism targeted against them when they moved to the U.S.

It takes a while to get accustomed to left foot braking. Having access to a simulator helped a lot in my experience. 

While I love that they’re offering a manual, I’ve heard that this particular stick shift is garbage. Rubbery shifter feel and annoying rev hangs. Can anyone confirm?

Good point. It certainly removes the “window test anxiety.”  You know what I’m talking about...when you see a sexy car, walk up to the window hoping and praying it’s a stick shift, and then being disappointed when it’s got flappy paddles.

Pretty sure you and I are the same person. Love cars with a passion, but I’m also passionate about retiring at 50. While I make a  good income, much of it goes to savings. That limits me to cars $15-20k. 

It would have been awesome to cross-shop this with the similarly cancelled Nissan IDx concept. Too bad GM didn’t release this bargain 1-series fighter.

People like angry looking cars these days. They even tried to make the latest gen Miata look aggressive FFS. Replace elegance with anger and you get the popular car design ethos of the past 15 years.

Add the current Challenger to that list. The current gen has been around for about as long as the GT-R.

Agree with your disagreement. I mean, it’s not the best sounding engine, but it doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

Yeah, I hear that. Assuming low interest rates, the math may work in favor of financing. For my case specifically, I rarely look at cars north of $15k, so I’d rather just put the cash down and enjoy the psychological benefit of being debt-free.

Back when I was younger and less financially literate, I took a cash advance from my credit card to put a down payment on a Miata. Stupid move and I learned from my mistake. Now, older and wiser, I’m firmly in the “only buy a car with cash” camp.

Same here. I learned how to heel-toe before I learned how to left foot brake. I think heel-toe takes a bit longer to master because it’s an awkward movement for most. Left-foot braking is merely about training sensitivity in your left foot (which can feel really weird at first). Sims definitely help a lot!

Ok, here you go:

Exactly what I was wondering. How good is the save if the nannies reeled it in? Honest question as I don’t know how the traction and stability control settings work on these things.

People who slow to a near crawl when making a turn.

These are fundamentally different cars, but I like that you’re cross-shopping them. I vote for the Genesis because it’s RWD.

I’m likely in the minority here, but I really like this car inside and out. The only thing keeping me from lusting after it is the lack of a manual. 

Fun fact: the Fiat Coupe was designed by Chris Bangle

I read this in Trump’s voice for some reason.