This “EV equivalent of a Golf GTI” is set to cost more than DOUBLE what a Golf GTI does.

Nope. Nope nope nope. This is like the CVTs that ‘pretend’ to be a real gearbox by slowly increasing revs or letting you ‘lock in’ a ratio, coupled with the modern cars where the engine is so muted and uninteresting that they invent fake engine noise to pipe through the speakers. Two things I dislike intensely.

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I actually quite like this. But then I’m kind of a sucker for cyberpunk style. The interior isn’t quite as cool as it could be but it’s not bad. The exterior looks great. It’s far better than Lambo’s own modern Countach tribute thing, that’s for sure.

I’m surprised they are using such a small VR6. I would have expected the 3.2 or 3.6 to be the base block

I’ll give the easy answer because nobody else has so far. Honda sports models. They know how to make a fun to drive, good handling fwd car better than anyone. Specifically I would say the best two are the 2nd gen CRX SI-R and the DC2 Integra Type R.

I respect it. But I can’t fathom spending that much time and money on a car to end up hearing random passerby on the streets go ‘oh look at that weird golf’.

There is more to driver engagement than just engine noise. An EV drivetrain certainly loses some but there will still be differences in the way the steering feels, the way the car responds to your inputs, etc.

That’s like asking how a miata drives differently than a Jeep Trackhawk. Completely and totally different driving experiences in just about every way.

The caterham would be the archetypical momentum car. Light, agile, engaging, and able to carry a lot of speed around corners. The Tesla would be heavier, with less…

Y’know, if it can legitimately do a 20 minute track session with a bit of buffer, and charge in 15 minutes, then this could be a totally viable thing!...In 10 years when there are fast chargers at race tracks.

Well, they had that patent recently for hybrids with a manual transmission. Maybe it’ll happen sometime down the road.

A little hybrid sports car would be slick. Say low 3000lb range, just over 300hp combined. Essentially shoot for BMW i8 performance, but with modern tech bringing the price down to reasonable levels.

I hope this trend of OEM safarified sports cars takes off in more but limited edition supercars. Makes them very usable, still fast on all but a paved race circuit, and look cool. Give me a GR86 with the GR Corolla AWD and powerplant, lifted on some A/T tires.

Thank you, sir, for eloquently making the point I was trying to figure out how to word properly. The immediate jump to ‘law must be racist’ is naïve at best.

I’ll never forgive Quebec for preventing Canadians from being able to enter the GT Academy competition.

Even more annoying was I was able to go into the event, place in the top 10% off the bat, THEN the game tells me I’m not eligible because I’m Canadian.

It’ll be pretty obvious from the front and rear wheels slooooowly turning sideways before they move

For most supercars, I’d agree. However, Murray seems to believe that as much as 80-90% of these cars will get driven with some regularity, and given the ethos of the company and the relative lack of flash and cache these cars have to the general public, I’d be inclined to believe that.

I always thought that the Capri name would be perfect for a slightly smaller 2 seater using the mustang ecoboost platform. Would be a heck of a brz/gt86 fighter, and we could enjoy the ecoboost drivetrain without the stigma of ‘should have gotten the V8'.

Except no, because convertibles can’t go on race tracks without added roll bars in most places.

The RS was super cool, but well into the STI/Golf R/GR Corolla price range

If you want a car that can do everything reasonably competently, be pretty fun doing it, with a manual transmission and awd, the wrx is really your only option for the price range. Golf R, GR Corolla, Audi S3 etc are much more expensive, everything else in the range is 2wd (GTI, Veloster N, Civic SI)