I had a 1990 ZR-1 for a while. That engine was a beautiful thing. Sounded great, loved to rev, and with some minor mods that car handled fantastically. It had a ton of advanced tech for the time, aside from the motor, like electronic adaptive shocks, and it also had a ‘power key’ like a hellcat that activated the…

I basically looked for the vehicle that was:
<$10k Canadian
AWD
Naturally aspirated, with a >4 cylinder engine with over 200hp
Reasonably nice inside and comfy for long trips
Able to easily haul 4 tires

Ended up with a 3.2 VR6 Audi A3 Quatto. It has since been on gravel rally roads, long road trips, a couple Canadian…

Just make sure you aim your rearview mirror down so that you can see it, rather than any sort of pesky rearward visibility!

The Yaris weighs almost 500lbs less, which is huge. The big differentiator over the WRX/Golf R/etc was the weight, the GR Corolla is a much more level playing field with those cars and it stops being as appealing.

Also the Yaris looks way cooler being a stubby little 2 door, and it has the deeper connection to WRC car.…

This is silly. 5mph is too slow to measure ‘responsiveness’, I can guarantee they launch at a substantially higher rpm than what the engine is doing at that speed.

The effects of turbo lag make the engine less responsive to user inputs. What they measured was essentially the time from pressing the accelerator to the engine actually providing power as you mentioned. I would call that ‘responsiveness’, it’s how quickly the car responds to you demanding acceleration.

What they…

According to this: https://www.ford.com/suvs/mach-e/models/mach-e-rally/ the rally is an inch and a half taller than the regular Mach E. It’ll still pass the width/height test. (65 tall vs 74 wide)

To be elligible for SCCA rally-x the car needs to be wider than it is tall, that’s the only hard restriction. The Mach-E passes that, but not by a huge margin.

You’d need a very large, open rally-x course for this to ‘clean house’ (which probably wouldn’t be a legal course under SCCA rules). Everything local in the PNW is being won by racing the smallest, lightest vehicle you can, and this is...not that.

Y’know, that actually looks pretty nice. I’m sure the photos are taken strategically to make it look more spacious, but I could see living there if I didn’t want a second bedroom - so long as you’re allowed to put some sort of covering over the parking

Being EMP proof is definitely part of the design brief, yes.

I hated it

The i8 is a great car at the current used market prices - my partner loves hers. They were overpriced when they came out, but now you can get a moderately quick, light, good looking, decently fun to drive, relatively practical (back seats can hold short humans or plenty of cargo, awd) sports car that gets great fuel…

VR definitely takes some acclimating to. I’ve done a lot of flight sims and racing sims in VR and when I first got it I couldn’t do more than 20 minutes at a time. Now I can go pretty much indefinitely, I can do barrel rolls in fighter jets with no ill effects, etc. The only thing that gets my stomach to flip still is…

How on earth are they trying to argue carplay is anticompetitive, but not the automotive infotainment systems themselves? Why aren’t automakers forced to allow us to install whatever software we want on our infotainment systems?

The biggest competitor to buying a new GTR, imo, is the fact that there are 15+ years of used GTRs out there giving the majority of the experience for far far less money.

Throttle House summed it up well - put a new infotainment unit in the old one, and save $100k for a very similar drive.

Love an anti-lag crackle coming from a car going at full chat on a race course.

There’s absolutely no reason a car on the street should be making a noise like that.

Half the population is below *median* intelligence. One must be precise in their derision of the general populace

Thanks for doing the actual math - you’re totally correct. That’ll teach me to actually believe numbers in an article

This really shows how much some of the ‘creative’ lines Scott Speed took in the Subie helped. The only way you can average a slower speed and still do a faster time is if you drive less distance.

Nothing against Scott or the airslayer, they used the tools they had available, just a cool data point.