If you’re willing to settle for Fiats, you could do that for under $2k!

Holy shit, that actually is exactly the number of cars that I own. I am citing your formula the next time my wife gets a fourth glass of wine in her and starts giving me crap about how many cars I have.

Agree. I’d add that most people of the age and income bracket to buy this Volvo will have two cars, and this seems like the type of driving behavior that would throw you way off your muscle memory switching from one car to the other. We no longer live in a world where “mom only drives mom’s car and dad only drives…

No, Torch is actually looking for the 2019 Renault Twingo:

Thanks!

I agree. The 991 Targa looks very cool, and to my eyes, cooler than the coupe.

Look at it this way: If you bought an ‘89 Carrera cab, you’re still underwater on it, on an inflation-adjusted basis. If you bought an ‘89 Speedster, the appreciation on that has paid for one child’s college tuition.

I think the answer to that question is: 500 horsepower.

How fast can you go, top-down, in this thing before the wind gets annoying? Do you really want to be going 120 or 150 with the top down, given that low-cut windshield?

Well, hell, do you know anyone who is building these desert trucks who might be able to engineer a manual swap into a C8? I’ll call them and see what we can work out.

Same. I’d totally pay $10k to get that option.

I don’t think so, actually. That was a Graziano-manufactured gearbox that was rated to handle about 450 ft-lb of torque, IIRC. The LT2 in the new Corvette is pushing 470 ft-lb, and Chevy would need something even beefier to handle the power of the inevitable Z06 / ZR1 / etc. versions.

“And as soon as we offer the automatic, everybody buys dealers only order the automatic...”

Tesla’s market cap is a healthy percentage higher than BMW’s, and has been for a while. Things would have to be quite desperate for Tesla.

It looks ... ok? It’s just the proportions of a mid-engined supercar, with the overwrought surface detailing and design language of the C7 and Camaro. It could easily be a body kit on top of a Ferrari 458.

If Toyota hadn’t accepted (2), then (1) wouldn’t be as big a deal. I’m certain they’ll eventually introduce an “M” version of the Supra with 500 horses or more from an S58. But I don’t know if it will change the narrative around the car.

^^^ This.

The issue with the Z: It wasn’t all that fun-to-drive even when it came out. Updates aren’t crucial when your car is a life-changing experience to drive. See the Lotus Seven, or the Morgan Plus 8, or the Pagani Zonda for examples.

There are plenty of shaft-drive powertrains out there in motorcycle-land.

They did the same thing when casting Judy Dench as M. We all knew that it was going to happen before the movie came out. It’s still surprising when you see her in the first scene. We quickly realized that Judy Dench’s M was just as much of a hardass manager of professional assassins as Bernard Lee or Robert Brown...