“It’s that last part that’s the most fascinating: the Hellcat’s days are numbered, not because consumers don’t want them, but it’ll come down to those engines being regulated out of existence.”

Are you saving a company when it comes out unrecognizable on the other side? The company founded by it’s namesake, died around that time.

Thing is, Porsche and Lamborghini were created by their founders to BUILD EXCITING SPORTS CARS.  Not to make money.  Once they switched to mass appeal boring transportation devices they sold out their identity and raison d’etre.  Sell outs, nothing more.

I’m not sure which is considered the most impractical, so I’ll list them for others to judge:

This may be an extreme case (given car type) but my dad has a 2005 S2000 (mechanical throttle linkage) and I previously owned (for 4 years, concurrently) a 2007 S2000 which had DBW.  The difference in feel/response was QUITE different.

Came for cool stuff that was close to perfection, left with nothing. Just stupid.

Unrelated, but my engine died last month at an HPDE.  So won’t be driving to C&Cs any time soon :’(

Extremely surprised that the writer of this article didn’t mention that the self cleaning feature can actually destroy the hardware of convection ovens. It literally is a self destruct button.  Would seem like the #1 thing to point out.

I could be wrong, but I believe there are A LOT of BRZ/FRS owners that have 100k miles on their aftermarket turbo/supercharger equipped cars. (look over at www.ft86club.com)  I’ve been a member over on that sight since 2009 (sad I know, haha).  BTW I used to have a supercharged BRZ.  One of the first in the area in…

Oh God get over yourself.

Most of the drivetrain is already fully capable of handling the power. It’s a parts bin car and the rear differential, for instance, is from the Lexus IS.

Yes manufacturers have higher safety/engineering factors to bake into their designs, but the aftermarket has shown that the reliable limits of the existing design is…

If they hold the line I won’t complain.

Ah yes, maybe it’s there then.  Sadly that’s too small if someone wants to track theirs.  But, AFAIK the 1st gen has no cooler.  So something is better than nothing.

Hope so!

I could be mistaken, but isn’t that just the oil filter?

True, power under the curve is more important than peak numbers. I shouldn’t dismiss that out of hand. But You already know they’re going to charge way too much money for this...

Yup, dead ringer.  Been seeing that comparison in my head ever since the “renderings” came out.  Le sigh.

Have you even paid attention the current BRZ?  The Performance Package Brembo brakes are quite oversized and perfectly matched for over 300 hp.

I don’t mind lag.  It’s a feature/characteristic.  But only when things go crazy when the boost hits.

I hear you, but to which I reply “so f’ing what?  That’s an overweight auto only luxo coupe”