1st - 4th gears in the AP2 are 4% shorter than the AP1. Add a lower redline and you need to shift “a little” more. Any car with a 9000 rpm redline might seem like the gears are long, but they’re really not :-P

I’ve never seen someone describe the S2000 as having long gear ratios. I owned a GSR and an S2000 and the gear ratios were almost identical for 1st - 4th.  And the DB GSR has some of the shortest gear ratios Honda ever put into a transmission. Redlining second at 60 mph isn’t “long”. An S2000 actually has shorter…

The US is more enthusiastic about manual transmissions in sports cars than just about every other country.  The US is the reason that many sports/performance cars even offer a manual option at all.

CVT is an option, so don’t get it.

The UK isn’t a large market, and it’s government is increasingly hostile towards automakers, especially towards sports cars. I would say affordable sports cars, but with all their taxes and regulations very little is affordable there.

Nuclear needs to be developed further. Wind and Solar (farms not rooftops) are a con man’s game that works well at fooling everyone (at thinking they’re not as bad for environment).

I stopped caring about 0-60 times for EVs years ago.  It’s their one trick pony.  Clinical, unemotional, and requires nothing from the driver to achieve it.  All things that never make me want to own one.

“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.