I prefer motorboating women, not cars.

Honda stopped selling the Civic in Japan over 10 years ago.  It’s too large.

The Accord went full auto in 2020.  They were sneaky about it and didn’t put out a press release.  Just...stopped making them.

How did I miss the news that the 11th gen Civic wasn’t having a manual option for the non-Si model? And offering a CVT only is just salt in the wound.

lol, who gives a shit about how fast an appliance hits 60 or 80 mph?

Well over half of the Mk7 GTI’s sold had 6sp manuals.

I own a 2017 GTI (6sp manual Sport). I have no interest in the Mk8. I think it looks ugly. It’s bigger. It’s more isolated. And no more manual emergency/parking brake.

What a horrible, horrible mess.

Oh bravo, a speed limit stickler 

Tell me why cars don’t need to go faster than 85 mph on a public road.

Oh I dunno, maybe because you can do whatever the f you want with the car when you’re not on public property.

Is this still a car forum?  Or a place where people just bitch and moan.

Surprise!

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.