One of my major gripes with the BC Recycling system is they have zero provision for dealing with some fluids. Motor oil and antifreeze are possible to get rid of but some collection sites won’t take it so it’s a bit of a drive to get to one that will. Anything else like brake fluid is completely impossible. The…

Yeep. Then they’ll wonder why we complain.

I’m currently contemplating picking up a WRX STI. If the GR yaris was coming out here I would be getting one of them instead.

I call it Active vs Passive safety. A big, new SUV has a ton of Passive safety to keep you safe in an accident but very little ability to avoid that accident happening.

And the cycle will complete, they will have reinvented the cartridge game.

There’s definitely a few tracks around with long enough straights that a very powerful road car (a C7 ZR-1 or a 911 GT2 for example) should be able to hit 180. Road America comes to mind, or Daytona.

Hagerty updated their original article, they now say 600hp/470ft-lbs for the Z06

I agree with your sentiment, but you can’t take it to the track right now, and realistically pretty much the entire year is probably shot as far as track time is concerned.

This is really cool! A little pricey, but so is everything porsche and they look great. Upgraded head units with carplay go into all my used cars now because the functionality is so nice to have. I also love the recent trend of auto makers supporting their classic sports cars, I hope we continue to see more of it.

I’m of the opinion that the C6 Z06 is the best balanced corvette in the FR chassis. 3100lbs, 500hp and lots of revs. Once you stick supercharged torque on it starts overwhelming what the car can handle and gives it the reputation for being spikey and twitchy at the limit that they have become known for.

Ah, of course. Grand Sport. Brilliant!

This actually started very well (given I own a corvette). American, sports car, 8 cylinders, front engine, rear wheel drive.

When the 4 door was first released it only came in high spec too, there will be lower spec options for the 2 door eventually.

Honestly spending time in an automatic car made learning left foot braking muuuch easier for me. No need to change what the left leg is doing, just devoted entirely to learning to brake properly. Then once you can do that it’s easy to add clutch duties back in.

I agree. I’m not sure how that relates to my comment though. I was replying to the guy who said this:

Does that also depend what differentials are in the vehicle in question, where you only get the true all 4 effect with locked front and rear diffs? With open diffs, won’t you only be getting 1 front and 1 back tire at their maximum friction?

I’m confused, how is the 2.7TT at 325hp/400ft-lbs ‘caught between’ a 285hp/260ft-lb engine and a 270hp/290ft-lb engine? The 2.7 is FAR ahead of the jeep offerings in performance.

That makes a lot of sense when talking about vehicles without ABS. How does that change with ABS? Especially on newer vehicles with independent ABS channels for each wheel? My assumption would be that 4wd/AWD would make no difference in braking in that case, but I don’t know

Interesting! I wonder how that observed difference would change depending on whether the vehicle has ABS and how many channels it has.

Very cool! I had mostly written off LED replacements for halogens as terrible, but it looks like there are some new options that have come out that I should look into. Very informative, thanks!