Which just means that 20 years from now, Panamera wagons are going to be the darlings of the Gooding Auction. “1 of 1 spec in Mahogany Bronze with brown leather.”

Well, hello, yes, that is in point of fact what happened in the 1970s. You know how wages started stagnating in the early 1970s? That’s in large part because US Fortune 500 companies started outsourcing everything they could to overseas places with cheaper wages. The tax rate is a big part of the reason why.

Pretty calm over here. I am getting *mildly* worked up over which car I’m taking to Radwood Sonoma. All my choices will require some work to make it show-ready.

It’s pretty well documented in branding & marketing literature.

I owned an Esprit S4s...briefly. The motor did disappoint. It much laggier and peakier than my 944 Turbos. And a 944 Turbo is an old-skool, count-to-three-then-hang-on sort of turbo car.

I’m pretty sure BMW just designs everything for the nouveau riche of China and the Middle East right now. This new monstrosity does nothing to make me question my decision to buy a new S-Class or E53 wagon when my current S-Class kicks the bucket.

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.”