Yep, exactly. While this isn’t technically the same muscle/pony car type, it’s harder to make the case for selling this at the price point I’d expect they’re looking at if it comes in at closer to 335hp/3500lbs rather than 400+hp/3000lbs.

Right, but that’s the v6 Camaro. We don’t know the pricing yet, but if it winds up costing BMW-levels of money, that’s not exactly a great comparison to say your car performs just as well as something that costs half as much.

Part of the concern with that is the unknown weight and cost. 335hp would be amazing in something like a GT86 even if it cost a little more. If this new car comes in at north of 3200 pounds, or worse, in the 3500 pound range, then it’s got significantly less power than competitors - competitors who are also probably…

I would hope so - but then if they paid attention to complaints about the GT86 being underpowered, they might also have come out with a boosted GT86 trim, and they haven’t. I worry the converse is true, that they’ll give us an underpowered Supra too.

And at that point, you’re well behind Camaros and Mustangs, which likely cost far less for far more performance at similar weight.

Even at the current prices, the GT-R is still far more accessible than its fellow supercars. I can make the case for a GT-R by just saying that it has the performance of supercar, but at half to a quarter of the price of its competitors. Personally, I find that a much more reasonable solution than what happened with…

I could maybe live with paddle shifters and no manual, but 335 just isn’t enough for what the competition is putting out, and for what this car will likely cost. I’m not talking about cars like the NSX or GT-R, but look the numbers that rear wheel drive coupes from Chevy or Ford are putting out. Now, power to weight…

Pricing: “More than you can afford, pal.”

I not only need to get it, I need to Cosplay it.

Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here rewatching Dr. Strangelove to get ready.

This is honestly one of my concerns with buying a Tesla. There’s a supercharger 5 minutes from me, but the nearest service center is 2-3 hours drive away, so if anything does goes wrong... Yeah.

While those houses might be “upper middle class” size anywhere in the rest of the world, this is San Francisco, where you need to be a multi-millionaire to have a house that size, as others pointed out.

Poison still has to be applied and reasonably fresh to be of any effectiveness. It’s not something you can coat and then leave for days/weeks/months, it’s more of a “right before use” sort of thing, and they clearly didn’t have time to do so there.

I think you’re remembering the comments related to the reforging of Ned Stark’s sword by the Lannisters. There was a big point made about how rare Valyrian steel blades were, and how only some of the houses had one. I doubt there was a spare one lying around for Jon to have reforged for Arya.

Not poison. Poison (Chemicals/Drugs/etc) isn’t something you can just put on a weapon and have it be ready for use whenever, it needs to be stored and applied reasonably fresh beforehand. Otherwise, it rapidly loses effectiveness.

Clearly there was only one winner in all of this - Hijikata.

Sounds about right. Spectre certainly wasn’t bad, even if it could have been better. It’s still a solid Bond movie.

With PETA, horrible is really the rule, not the exception. It definitely gives a knee jerk reaction, partly just because the one semi reasonable thing doesn’t cancel the other stuff:

It’s not as if many pro-lifers don’t suddenly change their mind when it comes into conflict with their personal interests. Not that they change their minds about forcing that on other people, mind you, they just give themselves a pass. Trump and Scaramucci especially seem to exemplify that sort of “rules are for other…