That’s good if you buy solar panels built in the US, not manufactured in eco-unfriendly China.

Without battery tech breakthrough the EVs won’t ever be cheaper than ICE vehicles.

Get the EPA (in US) to regulate car based SUVs as the cars (that the really are) will do much more than anything else, honestly.  All these pushes for higher car fleet mpg have done is pushed consumers into “trucks” that avoid the fleet requirements! 

Neutral:  EVs will never take over the market without a major battery energy density/material technology breakthrough.  Currently a dead end.

Sorry, I hadn’t noticed the long reply sub-thread.  Not trying to flame.

I’ve rallycrossed a lowered Integra GS-R. And beat a lot of WRXs that were afraid to beat on their cars like me.  10 years later there’s still dirt shoved into places I can’t get to (talking about car, not me).

Yeah, this statement isn’t remotely correct.

FYI the beloved naturally aspirated V8 you’re referencing actually has displacement of 6.2 liters. Benz called it 6.3 to invoke memories of some of their classic sports cars from the 50s (or 60s?) that used a 6.3 liter V8. So sadly the nomenclature has never been 100% accurate. But calling a 6.2 a 63 is infinitely…

At what point is a pure EV performance sedan looking more attractive than a traditional ICE muscle/performance car? When V8s are being tossed for 4 banger hybrid combos I feel like we’re getting closer, for better or worse.

“And they’re lighter, which is always a good thing, as the current twin-turbo V8 is pretty porky.”

I’m not even going to bother trying to figure out Audi’s new numerical model designations for power output.

Knowledge is power!  >.<

those freaking microswitches!!!

If you don’t care about knowing anything about this car, why did you open the post?  Just looking to be a dick?

Well, yeah.  IMS failure is “possible” since the part exists.  But the failure rate is so minor that compared to other possible failures (bore scoring, or rod bolt failure) it’s not even worth mentioning.  It’s just something parroted around online by people that don’t know what they’re talking about (I’m not…

As the owner of a 2006 Cayman S with 112,000 miles, you could say I’m a little biased in voting (NP). However, owning one also means I know a lot about owning and maintaining a car like this. Accessing the engine on this car isn’t as difficult as people think. Depending on what you need to access you can get to the…

Ignorant statement. There’s nothing wrong with the IMS on the Cayman’s M97. It has an incredibly low low failure rate. And is impossible to access without completely disassembling the engine. Ergo, only an idiot would proactively have anything “done” to the IMS.

Porsche’s PDK dual clutch transmission wasn’t available on the Cayman until 2009 (the first year of the 987.2).  Earlier Caymans’ auto option was the dreaded Tiptronic.

Takes less than 30 minutes to remove the upper engine cover and access that item.

“The original S, which debuted in 2005 sported a 276 horsepower 3.2-litre mill. Porsche kindly bumped that to 3.4-litres and 295 horses in 2007.”