Most manuals are a pain in the ass in stop and go. The critical key about getting a manual when you deal with those situations is only selecting a vehicle with a top-shelf manual transmission, as only then where things like regular stop-and-go traffic will be tolerable with one.

Have a Type 981 Boxster Spyder (same transmission). I’m aware.

A lot of people never buy a manual because they’ve never driven one before. The last thing they want to do is spend $30,000 - $100,000 on a vehicle and realize they made a mistake, and have to swallow thousands (or tens of thousands) in depreciation in order to correct that mistake. You can understand why people defer…

If it has a manual option, my guess is Porsche will have also developed a clever (optional to engage) launch control system to go with it. The 997.2 GT2 RS was - understandably - incredibly difficult to do a standing start with.

How many tenths would you pay twenty grand for?

Eh, it’s baby steps. Something has to help move things forward.

Every time I see this ad I wish they would crash into the wall at the entrance of the Nouvelle Chicane.

Doug just does these things so we don’t have to.

For the next #Torchlopnik article... why not a deep-drive into “Collector Edition”s of normal, high-production automobiles.

It’s not practical. That’s kind of the point of my post. The interstate highways will allow for a higher average speed while also being 10% less distance.

While 66 is a highway, it’s not one you’d use if you had the choice.

Everyone knows that brake pads normally don’t last 2 weeks. I was providing the reason why someone had cited that brake pads were only lasting 2 weeks, which is a ridiculously short amount of time.

Wasn’t forgotten. I excluded it for two reasons:

The original Honda NSX made ~276HP. For comparison...

It should be pointed out that the brake pads last that little because of the pads used — “service grade” stuff you’d never dare put on your own car:

Figure it was a 10-20 pound chunk of rubber and steel. It did as much damage as 10-20 pound chunk of rubber and steel will do.

Retread carcasses are known to truckers as “gators”. They do about as much damage as hitting an actual alligator. Which is to say, a ton.

“I bet that is enjoyable, but I haven’t said enjoyment recently in my diesel crossover. As a result, fun should be banned.”

I will meme for you!...

Not necessarily. Worked for someone who had an i8 and a Model S P85D. The Model S is for when it rained. He took the i8 in nicer weather. On an absolute drudge of a commute, in which he could mostly be in electric mode.