I’ll take wood over carpet any day too, but the difference in sound is like night and day. I’ve also been in all-tile apartments, and they are noticeably worse than wood.

Manuals are downmarket. DCTs are upmarket. Sad but true.

The 4C has transverse engine and transaxle. It’s probably identical to the 500's setup.

As someone who has lived in homes with both wood and carpet flooring, that sounds like it would be incredibly loud. Hard surfaces like wood make everything echo.

Hong Kong International has an IMAX theater in its lightly-trafficked terminal 2. It’s outside the secure area, though, so you still have to make time to get through security.

I think his anthropological take on cars is sometimes the most interesting (and unusual) part of his reviews.

Regarding the engine, I’d bet on the turbo L3, as seen in the Mini and 3-series. Unless a non-turbo 4 is purely a cost-cutting measure.

How much do the Monterey Historic races cost?

If they say it will work, then let them do it. Then independently and thoroughly test to see if it actually did or not. If it didn’t, make them do it over again. They’ll pay even more that way if they’re trying to cheat again.

Whoops, brain-o. Wrong Toyota hatchback.

I knew these were small, but I decided to look for a picture of one next to another car to find out just how small. I couldn’t find one of it _next_ to another car, but I found this...

Don’t forget the Toyota Celica is a nice pair of taillights for a Lotus Esprit.

My 91 has 206K and I had almost no trouble with it before 197K. Then it sat for 3 years while I was out of the country, and it’s had more problems in the last year than it did in the prior 10. Had to replace the battery, alternator, security computer, brake master cylinder, and I think something else that I am…

True, but mine was a 130hp LS. 0-60 in whenever it got around to it. It actually wasn’t awful, but nobody would would mistake it for being fast.

Depends how you define “great”. If you mean fun, it was very much that, as long as you didn’t care about straight line speed. I bought a base model Integra as a winter beater many years ago, and it was way more fun to drive than any of the other supposedly “fun” modern FWD cars (Mini, etc), and many RWD cars. It was,…

Separated at birth?

Or maybe he’s selling it to buy one of these

Good point. I’m also sure that at some point in the future we’ll have Chuck Norris standing on two open falcon wing doors from Model X’s driving next to each other. Will they be able to support his weight, or will he need a special Chuck Norris edition Model X with reinforced doors?

The preferred term at my local autocross is “all-compromise tires”.

Well, if they put sliding doors on it, it would officially be a minivan instead of a crossover. Then it would be automatically uncool, and nobody would want to buy one.