"Bavarian but owned by some brits"? Uh, no.

As someone who owns 6 manual gearbox vehicles, and has driven the various manual offerings in the previous F150 and F250, my truck is a slushbox. Make life easy on yourself.

Go read your state laws. Most places have regulations on the books about bumper, headlight and other mandated heights. And yes, many aftermarket suspension setups would make your car "illegal" in the eyes of the law. Hence why you see most springs & coilover kits sold with that little "for off road use only"…

Ride height, exhaust, "display of speed", tint, front plate, etc.

No, not really. It's a resort town, and beach season pretty much dries up around labor day. Outside of DUIs, public intox and fights, there's not much "crime" in Ocean City.

This is news to you? Of course you can. Try crossing the border from Colorado into wyoming with a joint in your hand and wave to the cop. See what happens.

Uh, are you serious? "Indiana says the speed limit is 75, but it's 65 here, can you pull me over for that"? Of course they can.

You want a vehicle the size of an F150, that costs more than an F150, with a 113 hp and 206 lb/ft of torque diesel? That sounds dreadful.

They lied. Ford ditched manual gear boxes in the F series 5+ years ago, said that the take rate on them was less than 2 percent.

Oppo is largely populated by a lot of feminine, easily offended and histrionic individuals, so I think you might be right.

The GTO is pretty soft and feminine, so she does have a point.

Wait, you were trying to argue that that underpowered top-heavy POS isn't a chick car?

That's called the Jetta.

No, they usually aren't. It just so happens that a click-baity jezebel writer decided to write about a discontinued optional appearance package on an old Japanese car designed by women executives for a non-western market doesn't gibe with her sensitive western feminist sensibilities.

It "terrifies" you? Would you also be "terrified" if they didn't know how to change the ribbon wheel on an IBM selectrix typewriter or use a double sided 5 1/4 inch floppy? Would you be "terrified" if they didn't know how to use the B/W switch on an Atari 2600?

Your average automatic back in the 60s-early 70s was absolutely dreadful. Usually a 2 or 3 speed affair with a very long final drive ratio. Mate that to a ~75 hp econo car engine and you have a horrendous driving experience. These days, your average 7-8 speed electronically controlled automatic really loses nothing…

The Chicago Bull Dy...oooh, maybe not.

+ 1 Don Imus-sourced reference.

Depressing in that it drew 688k, or depressing that MLB got outscored by premier league and the WNBA?

Hydrogen powered cars at the Indy 500, why GM is dumb for not listening to his ad agency pitches that he wrote in 1994 and why the Can Am series that his brother ran a handful of races in in the mid 70s was the pinnacle of motorsport and why TUSC should just put those cars back on track?