Until you’re as good a driver as Senna, stop thinking it’s the manual transmission that’s slowing you down. 

My 86 is stock except for some aftermarket wheels and tires. 245/40/17 Pilot Super Sports on stock power are probably way overkill, but taking corners at twice their posted speed is always fun.

It's why Miata (and cars of that nature) is always the answer. Running cost is low. Fun is big at low to moderate speeds. No ego. 

I’ve long said that for the sake of fun, “slow car fast” is always best. Get yourself some low powered shitbox, work the hell out of the suspension, give it sticky tires and drive it at 11/10ths everywhere. You don’t have to worry about the powertrain reliability issues that come with making big power and can instead…

Yeesh. That makes me nervous. Mind you, I fly the relatively heavy Blackhawk, and our rotor extends waaaay out past the nose. Something like 11ft, and the blades can flex down off the nose fairly far - limiting the angle of the hill we can do a pinnacle to. That, and you really have to watch the torque applied - too…

Easy answer: GM should design and produce better looking, higher quality parts for a car that wants to eat at the big kids table. The margins exist. It’s a matter of desire and dedication to being better, or in this case, the lack thereof. 

Nah. Not one bit. I just have fun giving GM a hard time for not liking Jalopnik in general. You’d understand the snark if you knew the history.

Outside the coasts the distances are too large (very few people in Europe commutes an hour each way) and the politics here are not supportive of electric vehicles. Too much ingrained self-identification based on cheap oil and any areas where all the politicians are bought and paid for by oil.

I’ll encourage it.

Seems like this is an update to the old way VW used to say “fuck you”:

Seems reasonable.

I'll allow it.

If you’re in the market for a new Corvette, please be aware that there are kids on your lawn you need to yell at, and the clock on your VCR is still blinking midnight...

It’s a Scottish Sale. When I visited Scotland, everything was “20,30, 40% off!” But the original prices were 20, 30, or 40% higher than normal. (I believe the Scots must have cornered the furniture retailers in America).

Over time, does anyone else think the camaro getting all of these high-performance packages has cut into the corvette’s market? Especially since most corvette owners are a bit older and the current consumer group, overall, would rather buy a CUV than struggle getting in and out of a car? It seems like the camaro would…

The C7 wasn’t exactly ready for prime-time. I’ve yet to meet someone at the track who’s C7 has survived for more than a year.

“only to determine...”

Maybe they could make the pipes blow bubbles. You could control it with the gear shifter, since that wouldn’t be doing anything else. 

By no stretch of the imagination were mid-00s GM cars even close to decent.

It’s never the market’s fault. All decisions made by the market are directly related to the product. After decades of eroding brand value while other products are innovating, no one is just going to turn around and buy Chevy because “its time to give them a chance again.”