Also the Suzuki F6A 3-cylinder turbo: It’s in a whole bunch of Japanese microcars, the Autozam AZ-1 gullwing, some snowmobiles, and those Cushman micro-trucks that gardeners and rent-a-cops drive around college campuses.

I’d gotten the impression that the 888s were aging awfully well, based on the JD Powers and CR surveys. We had an 888 Passat that made it through the lease with zero issues - JDP says the Passat is up at that top of its class for problem rate three years into ownership. We’re now on year 4 with a GTI, also with no…

Right?! How many manufacturers have developed their own 2.0L turbocharged inline-4 at this point? They’re all developing roughly similar power output, too.

You deserve extra stars for the Twilight Zone .gif.

The interior and the technology package. If you compare it to the Mercedes and BMW coupes, the Lexus’ interior is lacking in materials quality. It looks really cool in pictures, but when you sit in one, in person, and then sit in any of the Benz coupes - even the E400 - the Lexus doesn’t feel like a $100k car.

So many dream garages for $200k:

This Barstool guy sounds like a premature ejaculator. Entrepreneurs like him implode eventually.

So many good combos you could put together for $200k:

You’re not wrong, but you’re benefiting from 20 years of people’s experience with these parts on E36s and E46s. Now we all know they’ll fail right about when the warranty does, and we know to replace them with aluminum-impeller pumps.

My guess would be emissions and fuel economy. They can make the engine get up to operating temperature a bit earlier and then bleed off the heat more precisely. Earlier light-off of the pre-cats would reduce emissions, and they’re always trying to manage the tradeoff between that and cat temperatures (DANGER TO…

With an air-to-water intercooler built in! I think we all know how plastic radiators on BMW have lasted. Seems like we can predict that replacing this with a metal part is a smart preventative maintenance item.

Yeah, chonky.

That is cool technology.

Yeah, I know I’m getting old, because my first reaction is “what the fuck would you possibly do with that thing?”

It’s bizarre that we can’t buy the Volkswagen California in California. They would sell tons of them.

This was a fun read - you’re got a way with words!

Take a look at what SportsMobile builds on the 3500 Savannah chassis. It’s pretty much what you describe, and better put together than most homes.

I’ve car-camped in that generation of Dodge Caravan and the current Pacifica. The new Pacifica is leaps and bounds better than the model it replaced. It’s much lighter on its feet, quieter, higher performance in every direction, and gets *much* better gas mileage. The seats in the current model were much better than…

So, what are all the differences between this variation and the Evora Sport 410? Which would you want, and which do you think we should want?