That’s not terrible looking, and by that point most if not all of the basic Vega issues would have been resolved, but still, I’m feeling CP on this.

So it is prescription strength.

1st gear: ERRYBODY BUYIN’ SHIT!
2nd gear: Excuse me while I go laugh maniacally at Acura. *evillaughtrack.mp3 intensifies* Also Honda a shit, Mazda a best.
3rd gear: So in other words, no progress there? That’s the vibe I’m getting.
4th gear: Or we could, you know, develop ways to restore eyesight that has degenerated,…

Cool. Where’d you read that?

Curses, beaten to the punch.

Clearly a prescription strength Focus RS, duh.

Funnily enough, I remember Bimmer magazine contacting BMW when the E9x 3er came out and asking them about the magnesium in the N/A straight-6s.

Oh my.

So is this a step up from the Z51 package or does it replace it altogether?

Easy: tooling up an engine for one car isn’t feasible from a financial POV anymore.

I am...underwhelmed.

That’s all it is: a gimmick. That and something intended for autonomous use (as those knuckleheads in Germany proved).

Another site said the stability control couldn’t be fully disabled. Which is it?

People didn’t care about handling, plus the factory Foxes (save the SVT cars) weren’t the best at it anyway.

They did. Just a bit more subtle.

I do, what do I win?

Does the Red Sport 400 have an LSD or is Infiniti still trying to pretend that brake-based diffs are an adequate substitute?

Early 2.3Ts had issues. They were mostly solved by the time of the SVO.

1st gear: So does that mean they’re gonna be riddled with issues out of the gate? Because I know that’s a common (and sometimes valid) complaint about Bimmers of late.
2nd gear: When will Piech’s name come up? He HAD to know something.
3rd gear: I was gonna say something about ‘recall of the millennium’, but that…

Not very. The C6 GS was essentially Z06 brakes and body bits on the steel frame of the base car with the Z51 packages springs (the Z51 package was dropped for 2010, then came back with the C7).