I agree, but the price he quoted simply was not the price of the car he drove, and in fact, (especially with the vette) represents a very significant difference in feel and driving dynamics, as opposed to a Porsche with yellow seat belts vs standard.

Please, please do not assume that. It really undermines the word "journalist" to describe yourself. Having driven both versions myself, I would argue that Z51, Mag Ride, and manual gearbox vs. base model automatic is the difference between "must have" and "rental fleets in south Florida only."

This is what America looks like, to the world.

Not to but pick, but while you can get a corvette for $52,000, the one you drove was more like $67k with Z51, Mag Ride, carbon, etc. still cheap by European standards, but while a Corvette is $52k, a GOOD corvette is $15k more.

File this one under "take with a pinch of salt", but someone on the McLaren Life forums is claiming the 918 just set a 6:48 'ring time.

Yea well, if maybe they had a better rating scale... :/

It got a 77? What are they thinking!?

Zing!

Still feel you did the car justice with your 77/100 review?

This exactly. There are some serious shitcans out there that have manual transmissions, and that makes them way more fun to drive. Even if they are slow as hell. Being able to row your own lets you pretend like you are a master racecar driver. On a daily basis! I don't care how much faster or whatever about the flappy…

I get it, the paddles are faster, but unless you are on a track and have superhuman driving skills it doesnt matter. Cars that are fun to drive like the S2000 or Lotus Elise arent about shaving a tenth of the 0-60 times.

But you're missing the ENTIRE point. At the speeds most people drive in places most people drive, we don't need BETTER control of the car. We have perfectly fine control of the car. We're not in danger of loosing control of the car. We're going to the edge of control, sure, but still within it. It's 95% of the…

This is exactly how I feel. And there is SO MUCH more to worry about than eking out a couple of tenths on a track using your DSG instead of a manual. You have to be seriously, seriously pushing beyond the level of skill that if I had to guess 95% of Jalopniks lack to ever gain a noticeable difference between a…

Flappy paddles are no fun.

While I intellectually get the arguments against 3 pedals, I still don't like it. It's "more = better" type of thinking that I don't think holds in all cases. If I can get this degree of performance doing it one way, and I can get +1 more degree of performance doing it another way, then that's always better. Look,…

The Hire was, at the time, probably the Pinnacle of BMWs lineup with a slew of great vehicles including the E46 330Ci, E38 740iL, and the heavenly E39 M5. Never was there a better time in the brand's lineup. While today's BMW lineup has more power and perhaps better handling, this group of cars came before iDrive,…

Imagine Bullet with paddles, hilarious

What also made those movies so great were the fact that they weren't ruined by flappy paddles. Lets face it, these films have to be dramatic and I can't think of the current BMW lineup being very exciting on film. Imagine the scene: Clive is being chased and he's gotta lose the baddies in his M5, he gives it a…

Yea but, "near perfect" and only a 77? How does this work again?