My Cayman’s brake rotor/pad life span has pretty pretty normal.  And I track the car 1-2 times a year (swap pads of course, but not rotors).  Dunno how you came up with this stereotype.  Not like it’s a BMW.

Porsche claims that most brake dust comes from the rotor material.  Not the brake pad material.  That stance seems quite suspect, IMO.

Buttons until the day I die.

They’re getting pretty lazy with their “new model” designations these days. Just like the 982 (718) which is really just a 981.2.

This vehicle has the dimensions of a hot hatch. Literally everything in your above scenario could be done by an AWD hot hatch. Unless there was a lot of fresh snowfall, in which case the Macan isn’t getting up the mountain either, unless you threw on some snowies.

Flaky? GM has been incredibly forthcoming with information on the C8 in my opinion. Compared to the rollout of other recent high profile sports cars like the NSX and Supra they’ve been damn near transparent.

Why would you expect a higher trap speed from the C8 Corvette? For one, it’s power/weight ratio is not much different than a C7. Second, it’s time drops a lot because of the traction advantage of having a midengine layout. Better traction + similar power/weight = lower elapsed time at similar speed.

agree 100%. Except for the SL - God that’s looked bad for a while.

They all suck.  We’re splitting hairs here.  Just stop covering them so I don’t have to see that shit on the internet, please.  haha.

It’s pretty unfortunate (and unusual I think) that the dealership didn’t give you new tires when you bought the car. When I got my ‘15 TDI Sportswagen (also in red!) back in 2017 it had new tires, brakes, battery and diesel filter. Unfortunately mine had the DSG transmission (manual was impossible to find anywhere…

Why don’t they scale it back a bit.  It doesn’t need to be a supercar.  They need to stop making everything bigger heavier and more powerful.  Maybe make it more of a driver’s car.  Would have wider appeal and be more affordable.

I have 2 cars that are both pretty low to the ground. As a general rule when I’m in traffic, especially lane merges, I will not let CUVs/SUVs/trucks merge in front of me if I can help it (assuming I’m behind a car). I don’t want to give up the sight lines. Of course, well over 50% of the time I’m behind something I…

Oh I see. Well I can assure you that nobody that signs up for track days is trying to figure out the top speed of their car.

I’m pretty sure that nobody has ever had any doubts about F1 values skyrocketing eventually.  It is, and will remain, one of the best cars ever built.  Possibly THE best driver’s car of all time, actually.  And no fancy 21st century technology will change that.

Aww, evil Chick Fil-A!  What a dilemma.

Blah blah blah, the US economy is doing better than basically any other country in the developed world. And will continue to do so with current policies.

Nothing sports car related is cheap, so I’m not sure what your definition of expensive should be? It’s far better bang for your buck that an autox.

Oh I’m aware, and ugh I really hate all the huge pickups over here.

Well that would suck - though I’d never buy the base anyway.

I’ll use VIR as an example (since in my experience it’s middle of the road as far as cost goes). Virginia Inter’l Raceway is about 90 minutes from my house and has multiple HPDE’s per month (High Performance Driver Education). A 2 day event is about $400-450 (entry fee) and that includes an instructor (unless you’ve…