As joking as I am sure you are, this would make a great candidate for a smaller 4-cyl swap...say the 1.5 turbo out of the new Civic.

I like it, all except the top speed. 87 seems really low, even for a kei car. Is it electronically limited to 87 or is it actually tacking out in 6th gear (which would make it super punishing to drive at highway speeds in the US).

“a fully loaded AWD Stinger could allegedly set you back about $51,000.”
“The one we tested in 2016 came out to be $58,420"
Something doesn’t add up here...

No, the point still stands with Ferrari. *New* Ferrari’s are designed for and cater to the wealthy pseudo-car-enthusiast. The people who buy them care more about the bragging rights than the enjoyment of driving it. The latter is just a bonus.
That is why Ferrari stopped making manual cars.

I know, but you were talking about Honda’s as if they have a history of torquey cars beyond say 2016.

I can concede that, although I think the C5 was better than the C6.
Luckily the C7 seems to be an improvement in just about every area (except weight).

Mustang GT Track pack to a sort of meh luxury CUV? Kind of a weird way to go.

1) You are partly right, BUT America has a lot of places with only long straight roads. So an underpowered but good handling sports car isn’t really any fun in much of our country.
That and also the Europeans are doing the same thing, except their high powered cars just cost a lot more. The most powerful production…

“the only reason manual guys insist on them is to be snobs against people who long for the good old days”
Funny because I feel the only reason automatic guys insist on them is because they refuse to admit to their lack of (manual) driving ability.

Automatic transmissions are overrated. I can be just as fast in a cheaper…

Then whey do cars with bigger brakes stop in shorter distances, and have less brake fade??????
This isn’t so much of an unpopular opinion as it is just false.

Some people are too soft on Tesla, and you are way too hard on them.
The reality is they land somewhere in the middle.

I agree except only partially on 2. I take the lap times with a grain of salt because there is no control over who drives the car or how stock the car actually is. But it’s still an interesting metric. That and I really want to go drive on the ring some day.

When they start removing the steering wheels from automated cars you could use all of these same arguments about that being good as well.

The entire point of manual transmissions is drivers connection, and skill. Any car purporting to be a sports car that lacks a manual transmission is a farce.

This was partially true until recently. GM cars are relatively well put together now.

Funny, because I can’t stand people that defend automatics simply because they shift faster. I view them as posers.

I’m a bit confused by your logic. S2000's and any Type R before the current one have just as little torque as the GT86 from the factory.

See the thing about Corvette’s is they are actually a good car. And there isn’t really anything that competes with them for the same price (unless you include the Camaro which has gotten really good recently, and the GT350).

The Corvette problem is really the owners...or most of them. There are two types of Corvettes,…

Ahh...Thought you were talking about Matt Farah.

German car’s tend to have really good initial build quality. People mistake that with reliability, and it is not the same thing.

I think the Nissan GT-R is pretty boring, and also it always irks me that people think the slightly nicer interior of a Porsche 911 makes it “worth” the ~$40k premium.