Which is conveniently located inside the car... I’m not sure why Porsche got rid of the cable in, what, 2000/2001? Early Boxsters had the mechanical linkage.

Well, does falling through the ice in spring count as “killing yourself?”

It was a turbo-prop derivation of the piston-driven Tu-85. And, the Tu-85 was a scaled up, modified version of the Tu-4, which was based on captured Boeing B-29s.

I’m basing my opinion on a pretty much open track with not much straightaway for cooling. Just a full 30-minutes of flat out.

I don’t know about perfect... I get fade on the stock pads on my Cayman S after 4-5 hard laps. My wife tells me she can smell my brakes if she’s behind me on the track after a few laps. Track pads solve that, easily, however.

When you have built your business model on creating a line up of models with displacement varying in .2 liter increments and charging INSANE amounts for these model variations... it makes perfect sense. Base 911? That’ll be $90K (USD). 911 GT2 RS? That’ll be $300K.

As the OEMs like to say now: “Lifetime Fill” on the trans/diff etc. What they don’t tell you is that they mean the life of the warranty, not the vehicle.

I love how for “average top speed” the default is a 4-cylinder Camry. It’s the most average car possible.

Totally with you... I won’t valet my Volvo C30 that’s worth about $6,000... let alone a car that might be fun to drive.

Your “future profits” argument is why Tesla has a stratospheric stock price and company valuation. Investors are gambling (yes, gambling) that the company will be profitable in the future.

You may be missing the bigger point, here...

It’s not like they are losing money on each vehicle, just the overhead costs are high for the company and their current expenditures are largely for future sales (given high growth rate).

All sorts of cars ran at Nardo. Hell, I remember an episode of UK Top Gear with a Noble, a McLaren and an Aventador being run for top speed by the usual trio of buffoons. Only the Lamborghini would have been a VAG product.

Ferrari is Ferrari. They do not necessarily prefer a fair fight! Nardo would be rented for testing by a variety of manufacturers and even magazines.

Usually, with Ferrari, it’s Fiorano when they talk about a car being “faster.” Plus, that precludes any possible comparison with ‘Ring times and Ferrari isn’t about to let a 911 GT2 RS near it’s private track.

It’s true... the process for making whisky and beer are pretty much the same... Ferment mashed grains using yeast to get alcohol. Then you distill the fermented beer to concentrate the alcohol and get rid of the pesky water. (Note: GROSSLY oversimplifying, but essentially the process).

“I see you’re trying to jump start your car... Maybe I can help.”

Try taking cars to the track... I was on a first name basis with the manager at my local Discount Tire I was in there so often.

26 on one blocker, 11 on the other!

It’s true. Unfortunately, the primary system tends to favor the more extreme of a party’s candidates since the citizens who tend to vote in primaries are more engaged, and likely, less mainstream in their views.