I am the original owner of a 2000 S2000 in red w/black. I love it. I understand it lacks low-end torque, but since I am not pulling a boat with it I don’t really care; it goes plenty fast when you keep giving it gas. I know the electric-assist steering takes away a bit of the road feel. I’ve experienced the dreaded…

Technically, the new Camry XSE 2.5L has 1 more HP than the 86.

I will teach you. I’ve taught numerous persons, even those that have previously failed. I’ve even had people tell me why no one ever taught them the way I taught them. Which is odd because I wouldn’t know a different way to teach someone. I did have one failure initially, I taught an ex girlfriend in an old Civic…

For years I just didn’t have the opportunity. I don’t know anybody who owns a car with a manual, and I don’t know anybody who’s even driven a car with a manual in the last 40 years, so I didn’t have the opportunity to ever learn to drive stick since I never had access to a car with a manual. Eventually I found a…

I’ve had this discussion before, but I’ve twice tried to learn how to drive a stick (once as a teenager and again in my mid-30's), and both times spent well over an hour stalling the car hundreds and hundreds of times in a row without ever being able to get the car into first gear. It just isn’t for me.

I’m not a huge Miata guy either, but I’ve enjoyed the NA and NB’s especially, that I’ve driven more than the S2K. Those cars have the delicate balance and live wire feel that is lacking in the Honda.

I still lust after an S2000, but at this point, it’s more of a mature lust. I can appreciate the car, love the way it looks, love the way it drives, but still sit back and say “it can be someone else’s car.”

I’ll be crucified for this, but oh well, here goes-

Let me finish this for you; “Oh, wait...we will actually be forced to examine the damage the to the environment and inefficient bloat that comes from a culture telling itself that soccer moms need to drive an Expedition to the store to get Captain Crunch for their two kids.

Blocking Trump and keeping the higher standards seems like a (the only) way to stop the current dumbass C/SUV craze.

I’m all for CAFE stadards

Does American tort law not have a “reasonable person” standard or what? A reasonable person (who has already decided to buy this vehicle and activate this system) would understand that these systems are experimental and would pay full attention.

Yep.

Yep.

Could’ve been worse.

People tend to be blind to the politics of CARB. It’s strange. Somehow they’re the magical do gooders.

Automakers aren’t required to meet a California-only standard. They could choose to not sell in California, make a California-specific variant or make a dealer-installed option to meet their standard if it’s not the national standard. It’s the kind of marketplace freedom Republicans normally champion.

What world do you live in that fighting for less pollution is a bad thing?

No state is FORCED to follow CARB standards....

I don’t know about that but do you live in SoCal? I do, the smog levels in the last 20 years have dropped so much that you can see LA from OC occasionally.

I originally said PG’s take was the right one, then I remembered the last time I put a transmission in Sport and it held at 5k for 10 seconds at a time on a flat, straight road with a normal speed limit.