In this particular case, there seems to be a way around it as they’re virtually the same. I feel there’s a small bit of a blind eye being turned, but there’s a company that federalizes them. Something, something, Holden-chassis-is-a-repair-part. One of those technically correct type deals.

Very, very expensive.

Cross your fingers and hope the ZX-25r comes over here in some flavor?

If Torch is not ordered to load up his Changli and get up there the instant these things hit the streets, I am disappoint.

Exactly like that, actually. Some of the plates in the kit have “teeth” that engage the detents in the piston and are in turn keyed to the bolt. As you turn the bolt, it’ll spin the piston in addition to retracting it.

Had one with a stick. The Crossover was waaaaay-underated and could have been considered an AWD Fit.  They’re actually still shockingly common here in the western Philly suburbs.

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.