So when self driving cars are faster you will let it do all the racing for you and call it better?
Good to know.

You are just pointing out everything I talked about in my first few posts. You have a lot of excuses, but you are just fooling yourself. Do you even know how to drive a manual?

Coulda had a Fiesta ST for that much. Too bad.

Hey, asshole, you know you can race without making a living from it right?

Well disability is a legitimate reason, and not what I am talking about here.

I’m talking about people who say driving enjoyment is a priority, but willingly *choose* automatics. Or even people who say lap times are a priority and choose an automatic car. Until you reach the stratospheric $900k level, I guarantee you…

If I am racing I would rather win on my own merits than the car’s merits.

Automatics are only in racing because they were allowed, and when they became a distinctive advantage they were essentially mandatory. I think that is a loss as far as the drivers in the competition are concerned.

I still go back to this argument.…

I’m not saying it is an elite skill. Driving manual is fairly simple to learn, but difficult to master. And that is part of what makes driving a manual so fun. Continually working on getting better, weather that be faster or smoother.
The point is, it is still a big part of the experience and at extremely little…

Just another reason I wouldn’t want to own a 911.

I’m not sure I get your point.
People who drive automatics always make excuses for why they do so.
“it shifts faster” is the most common, but also “I hate getting stuck in traffic in a manual”, and “I just like to relax while driving”.

And I understand that plenty of enthusiasts prefer automatics, but all the excuses are…

Automatics being faster is one of the excuses I was talking about, and it’s not a very good one. A good automatic is less than half a second faster per lap than a decently driven manual on most tracks.
This is why I tend to think of automatic driving enthusiasts as bench racers.
They care more about what it says on…

Full disclosure: a bit of trolling here, but if I had $294k to spend on cars, I wouldn’t waste it on one great one...I’d get 5 ever so slightly less great ones.

Sorry but a sports car (or “drivers” car) should have a manual. I know they need to offer an automatic for sales, but it should still have a manual for the people who don’t make excuses.

Since you seem to know so well, what exactly are the downsides to globalism?

The problem with your requirements is that to get something unique it would have to be old and expensive, or didn’t sell well in the first place. And if they didn’t sell well they were probably shitty.

So to me the only real way to get a unique car that isn’t a POS is to import something that was never sold here. The…

I have an old friend who engineered at GM, and still daily drives a C5 he bought when he retired, Michigan winters included. I think the car is nearing 200k at this point.

I’ve got a few short stores, pretty much all involving my SR20 powered 240SX that I’ve had for years.
Like the time I was upgrading the front calipers, but one of the bracket bolts was stuck and I pulled so hard on the bar that somehow my shoulder dented the fender.
Or the time the car started smoking pretty badly, …

“I can’t imagine why they were so popular”.
Well in the beginning they were because it was one of the fastest track cars you could get for the price, and that was before tuning.
The problem was that it wasn’t updated much. The late 2014 Evo was probably not any faster than the 2003, while everything around it had caught…

Or to just like take a step back. For cars like this, shoot from the back seat, or take a side angle shot with the door open.

Society has let gouging based on high demand become the economic norm, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t gouging. The good part about this model is that it tends to bring competition which eventually lowers the price again. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be working with premium gasoline.

This is a bit difficult, but conceptually it’s not that hard. I did it once (well say it was on purpose) in a drift practice.

Where in Ohio are you? I got a shitty Minivan I’m not using if you want to borrow it :p