Laguna Seca. Salinas, California is the same damn temperature all year round and it rarely rains. That eliminates two big variables which is important when you’re trying to match up hot lap times. No wet laps, no hot laps with reduced power, no cold laps with more power but less grip, etc. Plus you can test all year…
The track should be a nice mix of out right speed and technical.
Laguna Seca. That corkscrew separates the amateurs from the pros.
Somewhere James May is thrilled.
Ralph Gilles for president? I’d vote for him.
Get ready for a bunch of made up stories from all the fourteen year-olds on summer break.
Gesture control: The car will sound the horn when it detects the driver flipping the bird to other motorist. Thus allowing the driver to keep his/her other hand safely on their iPhone.
I hear you on the “cars are simply not like other large consumer goods.” I lost my 2012 Focus in the Houston flooding last week. It was my first car, paid for it myself, put 70k miles on it and I now feel like a family member died. That car meant so much to me and I lost it all in 45 min and 3.5 ft of water. Cars have…
I have driven a 997 GT3. I have also driven a 993 that has been modified to have about 280 hp. I would take the 993 any day. It’s so much more fun. The problem with the modern GT cars is the gearing. They are sold as competent for the track in some way, and they are designed to be fast. This means they have really…
Really? I test drove one recently and nearly fell asleep. My Mazda 3 is infinitely peppier.
This is the correct answer, but for the wrong reason. The real reason is that this V6 sounds better than any V6 on the planet.