Probably bought that piggy-back chip outta his ECS Tuning emails. +50hp/+65 torques! Anyhoo, old man yelling at clouds incoming:

I’d lay odds I’d be alright with it on a traditional manual. Case in point, with my GTO it was downshift to engine brake, unleash hell, make turn. With the ZF in manual mode (which I presume…

“And I predict the new M4 will age well.”

.... After the aftermarket pumps out F87 M2- and F30/2 M3-inspired front fascias.

My current 3-series has a hairdryer: I know all about burble tunes. My prior GTmonarO had longtubes, and it sounded like Thor gargling, sending passers-by to their Weather Channel app. That’s the difference.

This was the question in the back of my mind since the first word, and yes, it is a shame.

Added funny, and probably explains why the six-gen arrived with a thud: it didn’t even click that the picture I grabbed wasn’t even the OG concept for the reborn Camaro, nor apparently has it clicked for anyone else.

Seeing as Matilda made it to production as the V2 Monaro astoundingly faithfully because it was essentially a modded VT. . . No, it absolutely would not have. The Coupe 60 would’ve been accurately rendered in production as it was entirely based-off of and refined from the production Zeta Commodore’s running gear.

Inste…

I stand by my take:  resurrecting the mullet-mobile prevented the production of a better concept.

Are you me?  Same boat, word for word.

This:

I’ll add onto the pile.

The Aztec concept was awesome, and deserved a faithful production version. What we got was a warmed-over dustbuster with its ass chopped off.

Counterpoint: no, it doesn’t. Someone in my neighborhood had a red one, and his father lives across the street from me so I see (and hear) it all the time. It’s lumpy, over-sculpted and awkward, and the forced burbles and pops on every downshift make you look like a tool.

And those crazy, sharp lines just made me angry there aren’t actual Mobile Suits or Valkyries for me to pilot. I’d be hard pressed to think of a car that the “angry robot face” style actually worked for.

This is your harbinger?

You miss the memo that the G20 3-series has largely shed it’s stick, barring some Euro-only diesel models? When the car that’s pretty much been the gold-standard for “sports-sedan” since the 1980's dumped the stick. . . The industry is just moving away from manuals.

Sucks for us purists but as…

Incoming potential bad take:

Need a modern-ish truck for truck-type things but don’t want a $70K banknote on a SilvererraRAM-150 with more compute power than 1960's NORAD? Don’t mind un-fuckulating some minor mechanical issues, all of which can probably be fixed with the contents of a 100-piece Sears “Mechanics” Tool Se…

It’s some mutant, like a devolved bagger or ‘Wing. Interesting, but not exactly an image enhancer.

BMW’s C1 almost made the cut: like, they let it sit at the end of the cool table but then it dropped its lunch tray so. . . . out.

Sooooo close. French, and the rear reminds me of an old streamliner in all the right ways, but they must’ve come up with that front-end at 4:15pm and then knocked off work early. Some good shapes, just not very well integrated to the splash guard.

Interesting? Absolutely. Is it cool? Probably not, though I will concede…

Story doesn’t track. They claim he went in for food, yet there was no mention of him eating a meatball Shorti while using the trashcan as a table.

I kinda like it. It’s one eye-searingly radical paintjob and a pile of LED lighting upgrades away from perfect, or at least being a helluva lot more fun than the average bro-dozer with ocean-liner funnels jammed through the bed.

I firmly dislike this price by about five-ish, so I’m out.

Something I noticed: “. . . Club…

Honestly, any mid-90's Japanese compact and below was a death trap, though. 

Keystone State represent! Philly area here.

I’ll fully admit I wouldn’t by this for a daily, but something for the house down at the “shore”. . ? (Or “beach” because there is a difference here in the tri-state area.)

Oh yes.