You're not paying more for the 6MT, you're paying for bigger wheels, a LSD which isn't available on the 3 series unless you buy the M3, and gigantic brakes.

Seems like good deal for me.

As a 3 series owner I have not forgotten that BMW charges $1000 to "upgrade" to leather from vinyl seats in a $40K+ car.

I switched from Infiniti to BMW because I loved the driving experience of the 3 series. Dealer service is the one thing I miss from Infiniti! If you want to be treated like crap, go to a BMW dealer.

I can attest that sales of the Equinox are brisk. Went to buy one for my wife. in the middle of October. We just got our build date of 12/14 and we will not have the car almost until Christmas.

Wow, so much anger.

Who considers being a VP for GM to be glamorous?

Working for a highly profitable Fortune 100 company in suburban Chicago sure as hell beats working for a govt owned car company in Detroit.

Not to mention, I've seen the fleet cars that execs at Allstate get. Mostly E-Class Benzes, I'm sure that's better than what he was getting working for Obama.

As a cop all I can say is that they better find some way to make that data terminal tilt towards the driver. Otherwise they are going to cause a lot more accidents from cops having to look down to type while driving.

The incentive is that it's free for only one year. After that I'm sure it's not cheap. In addition, if you noticed they will tow your car to your local authorized Ferrari dealer. This stops you from taking it to an independent mechanic which is where many of them are serviced. BMW has a similar program where they will tow out of warranty cars to a BMW dealer for free so you can get raped by their mechanics.

I do have my series 7. Of course getting the series 7 requires that you know about as much corporate finance as the average McDonalds fry cook.

CFA charter is where it's at!

You can't issue new common stock without diluting existing shareholders.

The future earnings will be divided among more shares which lowers earnings per share. Unless the stock sells at a higher earnings multiple the addition of new shares reduces the value of existing shares.

This isn't a debatable topic, it's like arguing whether the earth is round.

They don't have the money to build a sports car or even improve the one they make but they have time for this crap.

They are going to be as boring as Toyota, but I guess this is the goal.