OMG Thank You for this COTD!!

Affordable? Not really.... Possible with safety standards? Definitely. The key is that you’d be able to get the exact look you want. My concern is that unless we get some technical improvements.... I’m worries about drag on various classic car bodies.

Is that even viable at this point with modern safety standards? At an affordable price point that is.

I am waiting for the day where bespoke car boutiques open again and build custom cars like this on Electric car chassis.

Let’s petition them to make the EV-1, Saab’s prototype from 1985:

I wonder if it has to do with timing. BMW was planning an update for the Z4 at around the same time.

Cost, for Toyota it all now comes down to cost. The bean counters are running the company, and all the soul has moved to Lexus.

New supra is a 2 door 2 seater and its weight comes from the lead BMW likes to add to their platforms. Its no longer a 2+2 GT car. Its more “sport focused” with an i4 engine variant running in the $50k range and the i6 coming later and costing in the 60-80k range. 

Because BMW pushed Toyota to the Z4, which needed a partner to make a business case for. Also, the 6/7/8-series are incredibly heavy, and a $80k Supra would be even less relevant than a $55k Supra.

They didn’t want it to be a true GT car, they didn’t want it to cost more than $75k, and and BMW wanted to share development costs on a new Z4. 

Off topic. But anyone know why they used the BMW Z4 as a platform for the new Supra and not some type of equivalent “Supra flagship” car like the 8 series or 6/7 series platform? Just seems weird that BMWs 2 seat roadster is the basis for the GT type Supra.

Want to love it. Don’t love it. 

I think its the weird hybrid system on the NSX thats keeping sales down (among other things). If I had the money for either a R8 or NSX I would pick the R8 because I have no idea how long term the NSX will be or how difficult it would be to fix that hybrid powertrain in the future. Due to that hybrid powertrain will…

Its for side impact crashes. Since most people drive trucks and suvs car companies had to raise the greenhouse/beltline on cars so the bumper on those larger vehicles meet with metal and not your shoulder blade.

Was considering a used NC and then ND as the prices came down on used ones. However as a former NA miata owner who has also driven a NB for awhile and test driving both the ND and NC I feel the NC and ND doors seem to be about 2 to 3 inches too high when your driving as to where you feel like you are more “in” the car…

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A guy up the road from me had a De Tomaso - I have no idea how he kept it running or where he was getting parts. The only upside to having a unique car in Hawai’i is the tight community of the handful of specialty car owners who look out for one another and take turns to rent garage space to work on each others cars.…

I have several friends who either have an EV or PHEV on Oahu and they all have mixed experiences. One has two early Nissan Leafs and they can’t make it from Kailua over the Pali to town with more than one or two meetings and back without charging to get back home to Kailua.

As a current resident I have a unique perspective that many have overlooked and that is to get something reliable, Not German ideally a Toyota or Honda thats good on gas and something comfortable. Like a Camry or Tacoma Why? Because parts and good mechanics are hard to find, esp in Maui. Thats why many of the…

I’d go with a nissan leaf.