The idiot 'traffic calmers' who think uncontrolled intersections will make things safer need to look at this.

Now you'll be able to get rental car looks and dynamics with a VW-Audi electrical system! Hurray! Does this car mean the return of the beam axle or not?

@StuckXJ: I'm saying that front engine is better than rear engine. This has been asked and answered by the auto industry as a whole. Only the 911 is left, and only because Porsche buyers are ignorant, backwards posers. Porsche had a better way forward with the 928 and 924, a way since adopted by Corvette and Ferrari,…

@trev: I absolutely think there is a course layout where a Cooper S beats a 911 Carrera S. The Carrera is low hanging fruit. I didn't see Mini challenging a Corvette or even a Cayman. They went after a car with the engine in the wrong place that weighs 3,340 lbs.

@Lars H: RR cars have never been common? Really Lars? RR cars were the dirt of the earth until cars like the Fiat 128, VW Golf, and Renault R5 popularized a better way. You must be new. Ever see a VW Beetle(not the one driven by gays and sorority girls), a Renault R8, a Simca 1000, an NSU, a Corvair, a Sunbeam Imp, a…

@phate1229: Car and Driver says that brakes fail at the track on 370Zs because Nissan doesn't let things like brake ducts interfere with their desire for low drag. I'd rather have a sports car that works than one that doesn't have much drag. Ever seen the drag coefficient of an F1 car?

Porsche can't take the challenge. Both companies have by now run both cars at the chosen course layout and they both now know the circuit suits the Mini Cooper S. There are reasons that RR cars were common until FF cars came on the scene.

@CABEZAGRANDE: I would have enjoyed your story more had the catcher been an E60.

Whatever Cayenne is in my line of sight is the worst Cayenne in the world. This thing is just a tribute to wasted effort.

This is no different from having anything tattooed on your skin.

@wonderbrad: He took his problems and made them into a bunch of other people's problems. Some here admire that quality.

I made it as far as Escalade before voting CP.

@zenneth: I apologize for not paying enough attention to your focus on the Cayman. Mini didn't challenge the Cayman. They went for the Carrera S, which is low hanging fruit on a handling circuit. Believe me, I've been involved in efforts to figure out why recent 911s aren't achieving their 'potential' at track days.

Similarities entirely coincidental, I'm sure.

@zenneth: Staggering 3:05.8? More like pathetic, relative to competitors in the over-$50K sports car class. It was also the same as the Cayman, with less power but the engine in the right place. Different tracks favor different cars. Most enthusiasts know this. Chances are that Mini knew they had the right track to…

@zachiatrist: I was at a track day a couple weeks ago while my (then) rabid Porsche fanatic friend was trying to trouble shoot a 911 GT3s unwillingness to enter a turn. There was much debate about why softening the antisway bars didn't help, why the track tires' temperatures were within parameters while laptimes were…

So some more trim packages and a '918' that may or may not exist. Getting press for Porsche is like taking candy from dead babies.

Maybe it should be called the Witness Relocation Taurus. It is completely generic to the point of borderline invisibility. I'm on the fence as to whether or not this is an improvement on the stock Taurus 'old Subaru Legacy with a gland issue' look.

Porsche probably got their hands on a Mini Cooper S and found out that it was real competition on the short course. So they dodged a bullet, comfortable that their fans are ignorant enough to assume they'd have won comfortably. When Porsche says they'll race as they always have, they mean with politics, appeals,…

I have two friends that drive recent VWs. The GTI-DSG owner talks about how much more thoroughly he will test drive his next car, but only when asked. The Jetta TDi wagon owner no longer says much, having gotten over her Bluetooth issues. I don't know anyone who won't shut up about their cars anymore. I used to be a…