Seems like the driver’s seat and door card should be black - that’s the side that gets used the most and accumulates dirt. Passenger side should get the flashy colors so the drive can admire that whilst stuck in traffic.

OH BUT THEY HAVE! It’s not in the configurator, I don’t think, but if you look in the dealer “Porsche Exclusive” option book, they will let you specify different colors for left and right seat, and left and right door card.

Yes. I like a girl who brings her own mallet to the ruckus.

^^^ This.

I’m one of the old (or at least middle-aged) men in question, and the styling isn’t doing it for me. The FT-1 inspired lust. This thing is a tall, scrunched doughball. The Pokemon Supra.

This is Bozic-Tatarevic-level awesomeness.

To be fair, you see a lot of this brushstroke-based font all over Japan. Calligraphy and waterpainting are cherished art-forms there.

I agree with your last sentence, but man there’s no comparison between the Supra’s platform and a Type R. The Supra is a two-seat BMW 340i. The Type R is an $18,000 Civic with a Ritalin habit.

The Mustang and Camaro are real competition. But I was actually thinking this thing was going to be $65k. At $50k it’s much more interesting. 

I agree with you in principle. But I don’t think it’s a big deal in practice. Our race car with a straight pipe from the header back will just barely pop the 92 dB limit at Laguna Seca. Just throttling back a bit as we passed the microphone would keep us under 92 dB.

Life just isn’t fair, is it?

A Taurus lifted on long springs and remote-reservoir Fox shocks? Even Ford had the same idea a while back.

Taurus SHO Raptor would be pretty sweet, actually.

They surveyed for “Did you repair...?,” not “Were repairs needed?” So it’s equally valid to interpret this data as: Chevy owners are cheap-ass, low-expectation-havin’-mothafuckers who don’t bother to fix things that break.”

I’m DD’ing a Porsche 928 this week. If this were a great front-engined 2+2 GT car for $65k, yeah, I actually would be the buyer. As it stands, you’ve got the Audi S5, which sucks, the 4-Series, which also sucks, and the E-Class Coupe, which is wonderful but also not particularly sporty (although it *is* fast).

The Supra was the fastest of that 90's Japanese trio, and by a pretty big margin. But I agree, the RX-7 is the best looking of the 3 and the 300ZX close behind.

To my eyes, the ducktail is one of the best parts of the car. But overall impression is “meh.” I’ll be interested in seeing it person.

Eh. Cars that have been sitting in a garage for months or years will develop problems when you start driving them again. Especially if you drive them hard. That includes fuel leaks. I’ve had that happen (in fact am *having* that happen right now!) with cars I’ve bought.

Given that the von Trapps had to run from the Nazis, a heavily armed Julie Andrews would have made that a very different movie.

I’m pretty sure that most of these YouTubers are just able to swing the lease payment on these exotics, but don’t actually have a cash cushion to do preventative maintenance.