If it does end up getting awd, that would make me even more sad that it’s a meh 4 door sedan thing. If it had been a little 2 door coupe with a turbo engine, manual trans and awd it would have essentially been a new Celica GT4 and that would have been awesome. They would have sold at least 3 of them, I’m sure.

To be fair, yokes are common in race cars that turn corners too, not just dragsters:

Well, it’s a CVT, so not ‘gearing’, per se, but yes everything with the 2.4 has the same transmission

I was all prepared to defend the WRX by mentioning it has full time AWD. You can’t compare the fuel economy directly to a 2WD or part time haldex type setup, there’s always going to be more drivetrain loss with a Subaru.

Seems like a slam dunk LS swap to me. If it was transverse I’d say K swap all day.

The 911 Safari/Dakar idea is legitimately cool in my opinion.

At its core, yes. The question is, is that a bad thing? The 370Z was already a fun, rwd platform that was still performing well in amateur motorsports (Gridlife time attack street class for example). All it really needed was a refreshed interior, styling, and a more potent powertrain without gaining a lot of weight or…

Unfortunately by today’s standards that’s not all that bad. Lighter than a Mustang, similar to a C8 Corvette, not much more than a new Supra.

Not just shift-up lights. They also physically locked out 2nd and 3rd gear if you were accelerating slowly, forcing a shift from 1st to 4th. They called it ‘skip-shift’, and it suuucked.

I was hoping for GT2RS money - out of reach but aspirational. Compete with the very top end of current sports cars. Alas no, it’s just slightly less hypercar money.

There have been a few reports of trackhawks frying their t-case clutches, yeah. The trackhawk also has a unique transfer case not used in other models (Quadra-Trac MP 3015C)

Only the charger. The challenger was never offered with V8/AWD

AWD V8 Challenger would make for a pretty awesome, practical (if gas-guzzling) daily driver. Here’s hoping they can make it work without exploding transfer cases.

The widebody really made it for me, it was a little too slab-slided without the flares. With them it looks great.

I was actually just at an ice racing event 2 weeks ago in BC with my WRX STI. Essentially an autocross on ice. It was a ton of fun.

I think it’s a definite improvement. Aesthetics are subjective, but this hits the mark for me. I’m sure it won’t be too long before there’s similar aftermarket options available.

Good A/T tires with the mountain/snowflake symbol are acceptable in snow. I’ve done multiple winter rallies up here in Canada on them and never been stuck. They aren’t as good as dedicated winters, especially on ice, but they are far, far better than all seasons and about on par with ‘all weather’ tires.

I owned a C4 ZR-1 for a while, did some auto-x and track days with it along with road trips. Can confirm, there were a lot of things I really liked about that car. The reverse cornering lights are great backing into a narrow parking spot at night. The front cornering lights are legitimately helpful sometimes too,…

I’m sorry, can we also talk about that other part in ‘assertive’ profile? “Will not exit passing lanes” so...in that mode your tesla will always be a left lane hog? That seems far worse than rolling through a stop sign

Carlos Sainz is a professional whiner in the Dakar whenever something happens that doesn’t give him an advantage. Last year he was moaning about how difficult the navigation was, because he knows that stages with difficult navigation give the advantage to the experienced rally raid competitors vs the pure speed flat…