The highly sought after config is the best performing and the rarest, hence the high demand. The vast majority of GR Corollas do have rear seats. However I’d say the main draw is that the GR Corolla looks great and performs extremely well, practicality is not the primary concern. These are enthusiast vehicles, I’m…

The fact that the GR Yaris and Corolla sold out almost immediately kind of proves that there is, in fact, demand for a manual transmission, turbo, awd rally hatchback.

Well, if nothing else that nose is a massive improvement over the base car

The problem is, the roads are wide, straight, and boring.

I’d love a PvE co-op mode like in Daemon x Machina. I’m not holding my breath though.

Yeah, that’s always the trick. Same as video game DLC. It used to be that you would buy the game, and then the devs would go to work making additional content that you pay for that you could then buy to support them doing it. Nowadays, the game ships with pieces obviously chopped out to turn into DLC for an extra…

Yep, totally valid then. Subscriptions should be for things that require ongoing R&D, this is a valid case. Not one I would personally want but totally fair.

Sure! Provided that if/when I cancel my subscription, whatever the latest tune I got stays on the car. The subscription should be paying for their R&D to develop new tunes, not to continue to buy my access to an existing one.

I’d be willing to pay a small subscription for something like the OEM nav getting regular updates, so that I don’t have to use carplay which doesn’t work with the gauge cluster displays etc.

I’d be willing to pay a subscription to get access to new performance settings and tunes as they come out. Revised stability…

Agreed. The late JDM Evos with AYC and ACD were without a doubt the most technologically impressive AWD system ever fitted to a production car

Short answer: JDM Mitsubishi Evos with ACD and AYC.

For a performance car, the theoretical ‘best’ AWD system would be one that had three electronically controlled differentials, with the ability to lock them together as needed for traction, vector torque to either side, and the ability to be relatively rear-biased when…

The fact that the commute times didn’t change tells you what you need to know about this conclusion. They are looking at roads where, during rush hour, the traffic already significantly outweighs the capability of the road to support that many cars going the previous speed limit, but can easily support higher speeds…

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.

Figure…

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…