Up in Canada I’m seeing ST205 GT4 Celicas come up for sale regularly...it’s really hard not to buy them because they are my favorite rally machine (other than the RS200), but I know that I’d inevitably end up stuck trying to get some ridiculous unobtanium part when I break it at a rally-x.

A car with the engine behind the driver is always going to be somewhat more difficult to slide in a controlled manner than one with the engine in front. The car would prefer to rotate around the center of mass, so the same thing that makes mid engined cars turn so nicely when gripping, makes them worse for…

90-92 SW20s essentially did have rear bump steer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a tendency to rotate when lifting off or braking.

In the early 90-92 cars there was also an issue with the rear suspension design that caused the oversteer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a even more of a tendency to spin…

90-92 SW20s essentially did have rear bump steer. The toe arms are shorter than the main lower control arms, which means the rear wheels toe OUT when the rear of the car unloads...like if you’re braking. Which makes the car have a tendency to rotate when lifting off or braking.

There is a very significant chance that my STI Hatchback will get traded in on one of these in the next couple years if the following is true:
- It’s priced competitively with a new WRX (I wouldn’t buy a new WRX, but I wouldn’t pay more than that much over my trade-in on a GR Corolla)

The GR 3 cylinder may be a little engine, but it is by all reports mighty and intensely tunable (typically Toyota overbuilt). I’d trust it to reliably produce 400whp a heck of a lot more than I trust my EJ to.

I’m 100% willing to believe they had yellow flightsuits already. The conspicuous blue circular patches....could have easily been added after.

Corvette was always going to be slightly disadvantaged in GTD. There’s no way the IMSA technical team could allow the one grandfathered car to be faster than all the brand new GT3 cars, so they were always going to have to overcorrect down and then gradually bring it up to speed. They were noticeably slower than the…

This is a good thing. Porsche has been looking into making an electric boxster/cayman for a while but the sticking point has been battery weight for them. I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with.

Here’s hoping that IMSA’s BOP is more reasonable. The DPI class has been pretty great over the last few years, hopefully they can make the new GTP class just as good. That could be the place to really see the hypercars run well.

I know it’ll never happen, but I really wish GT games would come out for PC. My last console was a PS3 so I have since hopped to Forza on PC for my racing needs, but I really prefer and miss the way GT games are structured.

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.