Nah. I tried daily-driving my Testarossa for about a week. Truly a failed experiment. That long, low nose was bonking on *everything*. Good car for road trips, bad car for commuting. I miss looking at that car in the garage. I don’t miss driving it.

Yeah, my experience with the GT3RS (at least the 991.2) is that it’s even stiffer and noisier than the 570S. Admittedly I haven’t driven the 600LT or the 992 GT3 yet.

And that Senna would get walked by a Radical SR3 or Formula Atlantic car that costs about 1/10th the price. That’s the thing about these un-streetable track cars. If you’re going to have to trailer it to the track anyway, why not get a *real* purpose-built race car?

I just got back from the UK, and it’s safe to say that it rains *inside* many garages. The real estate agents were like “oh, you’d want a garage that’s fully sealed? That will cost quite a bit extra.”

An ‘80s Monte Carlo. My team has demanded a car that can actually pass on the straights instead of solely in corners. We’ll see how they like the tradeoff. 

Indeed, especially those X1/9s. I considered it, but I’m already building another Lemons car. Also, the last time I tried to ship a non-running vehicle across the country, it was a total shitshow.

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.