They’d probably never do it... but VW should merge with them.

At least in the US market this has a certain logic since VW doesn’t have a line of trucks or a minivan. While Chrysler isn’t really doing much in smaller cars and SUVs. They actually cover each other fairly well.

Add in that Jeep & RAM print money.

As for…

pulling 300 lbs out of one of these probably isn’t out of the quesiton if you’re going for track duty. Wheels, maybe a hood, possibly a lighter exhaust and rip out the back seats & add a race seat and you’re probably knocking on 3000lbs.

Going much beyond that is going to get exponentially more expensive. and i’m not…

I just question why you want it to be lighter. People fetishize weight like anything over 3000lbs can’t be a good handling car but the fact is a lof of the cars we consider excellent handlers are almost a 1000 lbs over your target (e.g. M4)

Transient responsse might be a bit better but it’s not like the current Camaro…

For reference, a 718 Cayman is 3000lbs, and with options will easily push 3-4x what the Chevy so it’s not like they’re being cheap about construction methods

I’m not sure your expectations for light weight are realistic. 2600lbs is 200lbs lighter than my old E30 which was a tiny car by comparison.
Even a BRZ without the added weight of a turbo or beefed up drivetrain to take the power is 2800lbs.

A 2600lb camaro would have to be built like a pagani and probably have no…

I’d buy the fight just to watch the weighin

#girther

Photographs of night driving can be a bit misleading.

These cameras don’t have the same dynamic range as the human eye so outside of the immediate sweep of the headlights things look a lot worse than they do in person

maybe add some electric torque-fill, to separate it from the TT. Sort of like a cheap 918, or an attractive i8

As I understand those things were not as good in practice as the headline number would suggest. 

Probably the craziest thing we have right now is AMG 4cylinders.

I’d rather see them go full UR quattro with a straight 5.
Here’s what it sounds like in the Panamera, not great.

The Alpha is out of production but the Maserati does sound pretty good. But i still think the C63 sounds a lot better.
Here’s the engine they’re using though

Sound matters. a lot.
very few V6s ever have sounded good. Jaguar probably gets the closest by just making it LOUD!!!1. Porsche gets around this by having a flat 6 which is distinct from what you’d find in anything outside of a Subaru or a light aircraft.

And at the end of the day the reason these cars exist is for…

Also they already make this car, it’s called the 911 turbo, and it has back seats.

I get the economies of scale and packaging, but seriously, why does going under 3.5l mean we HAVE to have V6s? With very few exceptions V6s are fairly pedestrian, and before you say GT-R, if they released a 4.5l V8 GT-R you would all lose it.

Jag makes their interesting by virtue of having essentially no exhaust and…

You can also fly where the weather is good, so you have a lot less chance of scrubbing the launch. Scott Manley did a good segment on this.

Depends on what their procedure is after something like this but seems like a ripe opportunity to stash one of the bars that didn’t fall off.

Ford rolls out beta version of self driving car.

Non-hybrid ICE sales are going to start falling off a cliff in 10-15 years anyway .This is like re-engineering deckchairs on the titanic.

This also means the ones that are still sold will probably be under a bit less pressure to do all the heavy lifting on emissions reductions.

From what I’ve heard it depends on what you’re optimizing for. IFS can definitely compete but you’re optimizing more for the cross country sections (think pre-runner), on rocks the solid axle still wins. It just depends on your strategy.

As I understand there are some limits to how much deflection your half shafts…

Sounds like this debate was had at the time.
(popular mechanics april 1983)