Okay dial it back to about 300-350hp, make it or keep it, AWD, Full interior, sell for UNDER $40K and Toyota just won back 80% of their 1980s street cred they pissed away and failed to get back with the FR-S/GT-86.

Agreed. The BRZ/GT-86 needs 250-300hp to really be a sports car in this day and age. Enough to be fast but not so much to overpower the chassis. It is a long standing and reasonable request.

Scenes like that make me remember the concept of the garbage digester. A massive machine that sorts through garbage breaking it down into the base component and even materials sorted and ready to be smelted, melted, and recycled.

To soon be in a sci-fi movie as one of the characters’ buddy robots. Maybe scratched up and beat up a bit that opens up to reveal loads of weapons.

There are a LOT of old tread designs I would love to see again today, with newer better compounds, like the Eagle ST, Eagle GT Gatorback, the Eagle GS-C, BFGoodrich Comp T/A (OG)

Fair enough. I’m not hip on Fuel cells as automotive power generators. But I helps to know what it is.

It really matters what the body and the frame are made of, as far as weight is concerned.

Trans-Am would draw more simply as a name. evoking the concept of US Production based racing on a big stage, and remember Trans-Am was on the Big stage along side NASCAR before the Frances out spent Trans-Am to push them off the stage. American Racing and Automotive identity has suffered for it as a result. It doesn’t…

I meant the real Trans-Am, the production based road course racing series as in the 1960s and 70s, with some pretty open racing specs.

Just bring back Trans-Am as a proper road course racing series. You can use the in-field road courses and a lot fo ovals on top of eixsting road course tracks around the US as venues.

Cost analyses like that are just straight dollar for dollar inflation conversions but do not take into account what it would cost to build THAT car today. a 2000 Cobra R would not fetch nearly $81K today. The car would fetch today about the same $55K it did in 2000.

They just kept getting bigger, more powerful, and worst of all more expensive.

I dig the Corvette C7R the Panoz Esperante GTR, and I’m up in the air about and the Ferrari 488 GT3 (Sorry if the name is off. I’m not a big Ferrari fan.. “Shock and awe”.). Modern LMPs are just a visual mess and I really don’t like looking at them. I know they are awesome, but that lack that beauty of function over…

Someone who and afford a $2.1M car can afford to drive it as his “daily” although it more than likely his weekend toy or one of them. Yes, I know the tires are at least $10,000 a set every 2500 miles. and a Powerboat gets better gas mileage.

That is what you can literally call “rubbernecking”.

Just add the sounds of bones breaking and “Flawless Victory”.

I can see the Rotary being used as the on-board generator while the RX Vision is propelled by electric motors. Use a relatively small battery pack for “Zero lag” power, to cover the span of time the Generator needs to spool up. and there you go.

Then they pull the wraps and...

Its a major deflation moment for me.

I really want to say something Inflammatory here. But I really have no desire to deal with the fallout. Not fear. Just general exhaustion for that sort of thing.