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    I mean...the car wouldn’t “take off”, but it would develop enough rear end lift to surprise drivers with unexpected high speed oversteer.

    When I bought my Cayman S it was from a dealership 5 hours away from me. Before even seeing the car I had the car inspected by the shop that did all the work for sports cars (that the dealership selling the car used). I spoke with the mechanic that looked at my future car and was satisfied with his report. Though I…

    I’ve used Purelator Gold oil filters on my GS-R for the last 15 years. It’s a decent filter (i guess) but the genius of it is the rough exterior. It’s like sandpaper - very grippy and easy to remove with your hand due to this grip.

    I love it. First the McLaren Senna, now this. Glad to see exotic car makers getting back to the business of lightweight and high power engines, without hybrid systems and AWD crap to weigh them down and dilute the experience.

    Thank you. I wasn’t aware 2017 standards helped with this. Sadly, doesn’t change the fact that these engines were emitting particles unchecked for over a decade.

    CAFE has brought us direct injection engines, which have ridiculously dirty particulate emissions. For some reason everyone’s trying to ignore this.

    Agreed

    To help you avoid the torque dip.

    I think the engine in the BRZ sounds good because it basically has no currently 4 cylinder peers. Name another sporty car with an NA 4 cylinder engine. Nonexistent. When I owned one I was far from impressed with the engine sound, stock at least.

    Makes sense. The current gen Taurus has been a loser from day one.

    I think the sedan’s current trend towards demise is the result of a few factors. Sure, a lot of consumers prefer them over cars, but why. I’d wager that most of them have been conditioned by the automakers themselves.

    Are you sure? The Taurus is freaking huge. It’s roofline is even higher than some so called CUVs.

    As long as CUVs and lifted wagons get a CAFE “pass” by being classified as light duty trucks this is what automakers want to sell, and its what car buyers want to buy.

    CUV might as well stand for Compromise Utility Vehicle. Because that’s what it is, and by design it’ll never be as safe or dynamically adept as a traditional car. My parents recently switched from a Volvo V70 to an XC60. They switched because Volvo discontinued the V70 wagon and their other wagons were too expensive…

    I guess I was a little too stingy with my words. I already owned a BRZ...and supercharged it within 9 months of ownership (that freaking engine, ugh). Unfortunately I had an “incident” with it at VIR and now own a 987 Cayman S, lol.

    I owned an AP2 for 4 1/2 years. Every time I started to get annoyed with DD’ing the car all it took was a visit to the race track to make me fall in love with the car all over again. Unfortunately I couldn’t afford to do that much more than once a year. And I’m too tall for a rollbar to be practical (S2000's without…

    My dad had a ‘98 base model. Used to love driving it. Was interesting to drive it back to back with my ‘92 GS-R. It’s torque is nice but overall I preferred the lighter weight of the GS-R. Blows my mind how cheap these are currently selling for (Preludes).

    But then I drove a 2018 Honda Civic Si. And fam, you’ve got to understand something before you go spending $20,000 on a 20-year-old used car–the new one whips the EM1’s ass in every appreciable way.