I don’t know about US or other countries. But in Indonesia, that’s how much you’ll make in a month back in the days.

The R&T tested the car against the M3 (the 4 door one, not M4) around some American track named Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. The Giulia Q is only marginally faster than the BMW. Not as bombastic as the Nurburgring time difference. You can find it on Youtube. Complete with some note and comments from the racing driver…

Modern cars have that seatbelt height adjuster. You can lower or increase the height of the belt to prevent decapitation.

You might as well say, manufacturer’s performance badge.

Some of top cheap car trims in third world countries are poser stuff anyway.

That is a trip across the continent. $ 300 is around IDR 5.000.000 in my currency. With your American salary of $7/hour, that should be quite dirt cheap.

Yes, in Indonesia, that’s the decent average salary you’ll get as a “manager” in a multinational company. In US, my equivalent in a similar company will get around $10,000 - 15,000 / month.

Did you fly with full service airline?

When I picture $50K+++ car buyers, I put myself in the shoes of my rich uncle. He chose Mercedes cars (from C to S) and Lexus LX570 as his daily. Not BMW, that’s for unsettled rich boys. Not Audi, that’s the same. And not Jaguar. Rolls Royce is too ostentatious if you are not the top dog in business. Bentley is just…

This reminds me of my Mother when she bought he first 2004 Honda jazz (fit). On our first trip, she gets confused on why the shifter won’t move out of P. She tried to strong arm the shifter with her two hands. LOL. A trip to the manual book revealed that we need to press the brake pedal first to be able to shift out…

It is similar to current Renault type. I had quite a fit with our rental car after 11 hours of flight. However, I am also a Playstation generation born in mid 1980s. So just looking at the picture: press the P button and yank the stick to the left? But can’t say the same for my mother.

I just want to scream RTFM at those lazy people with somewhat enough money to buy the latest car model.

Well, in 1990s, to fly for about 1 hour (around 500 miles) it cost me about IDR 1.800.000 or USD 1,300 per flight at a time when normal salary for middle management employee was about IDR 500.000 or USD 360 per month. For that you get: plastic paper air ticket that you can’t lose, because the reissuance cost is almost…

Typical cruising speed against their engine thrust:

It is “boring Japanese car image repellent” design device.

Other things using the three-diamonds zaibatsu name:

Too many for ordinary car, yes. But there are other market that has been developing huge gearbox and perfecting this technology for one day to be used in smaller vehicles. A big Japanese bus or truck sold for third world country market only has 6 speeds. They hold down traffic and clog them completely on ascending…

Jeremy Clarkson schtick works, because he has ample amount of knowledge. It is like his ammunition that he can combine to “shock and awe” or in this case, to conjure his trademark tongue in cheek phrases. He knows history, pop culture, technology, lavish lifestyle, he also experienced changing socio-culture from his…

Proton actually extracted Lotus badge to sell their meagre 1.2 liter sedan or 1.8 litre cheap MPVs with “campro” engine, “developed with advice from Lotus”. And slap that “handling by Lotus” badge.

Yep, because Capcom is afraid that Mike Tyson will get the reference. So M. Bison name is given to the Thai dictator.