I’d love to see more women in racing. But Danica seemed to embody the worst traits of young men: short-tempered, overconfident, quick to trade paint as revenge, eager to blame others, and reluctant to take responsibility. It became pretty apparent maybe five years back that she didn’t have the attitude necessary to…

I have no idea how SVRA classes work, but I race a 32-year old car. My life is a lot easier when I can substitute modern components, rather than search around for the trick in-period hardware.

That’s a pretty cheap ticket into the fast SVRA classes. Lotta car for $35-55k!

Are they getting more or less TV audience this season? This stage / playoff system seems weird to me, but I guess it’s like football or basketball. And people seem to like those.

That coupe is so hawt. I don’t understand why they bothered tooling up to make the run for Japan but never marketed them outside of Japan.

You, sir, are a hero.

There are a *lot* of them out there with small-block Chevy motors. I’ve seen a couple with Subie flat-4's, too.

Or committed a crime with it. The original owner may be dead or in prison.

I’d love to go on a road trip with him, but only if we take *my* truck.

Several guys that I know with hypercars still do care about running costs. Nobody likes doing three trackdays and finding out they have to replace $9k in brake rotors - you didn’t get to be rich enough to afford a hypercar by throwing money into a fire. Hence a lot of them have a hypercar but actually do trackdays and…

I do. I can imagine all sorts of driving adventures with friends in such a luxobeast. Like my ‘76 Eldorado, the Maybach will still be huge and hilarious and over-the-top 40 years from now. It’s the current best thing at doing what it does.

This seems like an idea with better chemistry behind it. Paint manufacturers spend oodles of time and money getting the mixing and flake size/shape just right - I can’t imagine that mixing moon rocks into it does anything good for the mixture.

Not like they used to. Detroit isn’t a big metro market for luxury any more, and never was a big market for the Germans. There are probably more Big Three engineers doing opposition research than actual consumers that would buy a Benz.

I’d be perfectly happy to live full-time in one. A Talisman’s back seat is pretty much my ideal conversation pit.

The Camaro is also whale-sized for an autocross course, making the sad trombone for the BRZ even louder.

The Miata does 0-60 in ~5.5 sec, the BRZ in 6.2 seconds. The Miata is significantly quicker, at least at low speeds. (Their 1/4 mile trap times are right on top of each other.)

Maybe I’m tainted by Bay Area labor prices. I’d see this as:

This is a car that’s going to require $5k of service to become a $10k car, and it’ll still have 150k miles on it. Not CP, but not exactly “Nice.” I really really want one, though.

The last two friends that asked me for car advice both thought they wanted Audi crossovers. I got one into a V90 wagon and the other into a GLK.

I have a *lot* of friends who think they want an Audi, but don’t like cars enough to throw down a $600/month lease payment. For them, the Arteon is 95% of an A5 Sportback or A6 at 60% of the price.