If you live in So. Cal, you’re on.

If you owned an S2000, and sold it for exactly this car, would it feel lumbering and heavy?

Gotcha. I now am an ass.

Good dampers shouldn’t make the car overly harsh. But if you want a ride like a cloud, get a really heavy car.

Had no idea you owned one. Sorry, I don’t mean to offend. I get that people like rare things, and God knows I love some cars that make a lot less sense. But ever since I was a kid, people talked about a split window like it was some holy grail. I just always thought it was funny that people revered a sports car for…

Never understood the lust over a split window.

Good Bilstein or Koni dampers TRANSFORM the way a car drives. It’s not as fun as lowering your car, but if you like driving, do this.

True, carbon needs to be smartly designed to be lighter than some aluminum alloys - but I think that’s true of aluminum vs. steel as well. In the McLaren, the aluminum structure is that way because it is designed to be replaced in a front or rear collision without scrapping the whole chassis.

Not really. Historically, Ferrari is slow to adopt new tech. When Lotus F1 introduced wings, Enzo famously said that aerodynamics were for people who can’t build engines (similar story for mid-rear engine F1 cars). When Lamborghini introduced the Miura, Ferrari stuck to their front-engined guns and made the Daytona.…

I’ve thought that too, but I wonder if that’s the nature of carbon fiber, or just that vehicles which use carbon fiber are more likely to use minimal sound deadening.

Ugh... C’mon, Brian.

I think this is the direction sportscar makers will go soon. More focus on feeling than outright speed. I think this is why a bunch of these OEMs are releasing/restoring their historic models.

Interested to hear your perspective. A carbon chassis is lighter, stiffer and resists corrosion. On the downside, it’s more expensive, difficult to repair and sucks for radio reception. Am I missing something? In a supercar, I don’t see how a carbon tub isn’t the clear winner. Except maybe that Ferrari isn’t willing…

Maybe they’ll finally catch up with McLaren in 2012 and offer a carbon fiber chassis...

My brother in law has one of these.

Hard to say unless an engineer who designs this stuff can chime in. But it’s more than the latch. If you do a mechanical one, you’re designing the cover itself in a much more complicated shape with a hole and mounting tabs for the latch, then you have the five or so pieces for the handle itself, the backing, a key…

It’s likely cheaper to do it this way. They’re trying to get the costs down. Hence the creative engineering.

But that’s how you make progress happen. There is an established way of doing something, then you try something else. Sometimes new things work, sometimes they don’t. I don’t understand how many car enthusiasts get so mad about a company that takes a look at something simple like a glovebox, and then tries to find a…

It’s likely much cheaper to do it this way. Stuff like this is how you get the production cost down to $35,000.
ETA - Well... That’s not quite right. Get the production cost down so you can afford to have an MSRP of $35,000.

Buy what you like, just make sure it has warranty. Problem solved.