I’m just glad you put an Arrested Development and a LOTR reference in the same article.

Luckily, no one who buys this car will have ever set butt in a VW Golf, and therefore won’t recognize the plebeian controls. If I were to be in the market for one, obsessed with cars as I am, it would drive me nuts, though.

I’m answering with drawn out replies because I’m annoyed by how obtuse you’re being, but I’m done now.

There’s nothing I would buy that fits that description that isn’t a GTI.

Did they test different headlight options on the 3-Series? You say it was worst of the bunch, but it’s far from it on the chart right below that paragraph. Is it that the LEDs are marginal and the halogens are poor?

It’s called an analogy; the objects aren’t related, but the principle is the same.

That dash design, with its lack of gauges and two spoke steering wheel is, in my humble opinion, awful.

This thing is awesome, I won’t lie. Talk about a sleeper. But it’s still CP. $22,500 is too much to swallow for someone else’s project, especially one so thoroughly non-stock.

Dude, any straight six in a Toyota (or Lexus) is special in my book, considering the only exciting car they sell now is made by Subaru, and even that barely moves the needle. Not that the SC is exciting, but there’s a visceral appeal to a straight six, to me at least. Part of it my have to do with my previous…

They’re rare compared to a similar coupe made by Lexus’ competition, which is why I said relatively rare. Obviously, we aren’t talking about LFA rare.

OK, I think maybe you just need to not take what he said so seriously. You a driving instructor or something? This seems to have offended your sensibilities more than necessary, considering it was said facetiously, relative to the context of the rest of the article.

In the same way I could say with relative certainty that a 10 year-old laptop is not worth $750 without knowing what sort of processor or RAM it has. A 19 year-old Lexus coupe is not worth $9,000, regardless of its drivetrain layout.

But I agree it’s certainly not a classic, and not worth $9,000.

Enough to fill the trunk of an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

I was going to say something about the Aston’s wheels, too. Holy brake dust. On the other hand, the exhaust note gives me an erection.

Hahaha I believed it until I read the paragraph on Tesla’s history.

Oh, lighten up. It’s Jalopnik, not Automotive News Monthly (probably not a real thing, just sounds snobby enough for my purposes).

I’m not sure why you assume that. If a traffic circle is empty, or you get there at the same time as someone on the opposite side, you don’t have to stop. And if its diameter is large enough, and your car agile enough, you don’t necessarily even have to slow down.

I think this may be the first time the phrase “dope ass traffic circle” has ever been used.

I wasn’t implying this one is different than others in that it looks RWD. I said it because I wasn’t sure whether the SC300 in general was RWD.