I don’t really understand banning any sort of older cars instead of more harshly restricting new ones. They’re (mostly) going to be around for less than a decade anyway, and building new cars has to be far worse for the environment than using cars that are already out there.

I have ALWAYS wondered why someone would just happen to cut their boat in half, or put a screen door in the bottom of it.

Because used AMGs and M3s are closer in price than the step down.  Compare price for price, because that’s what most buyers do.  It’s rare that someone starts out looking (and able) to pay $45k and then buys a $30k car instead.

I’ve never noticed used car financing being notably more expensive either. If it actually was, I could sort-of see your point.

Ok Mazda, you’re up.

If I lose a tire, I get my car towed. It won’t cost that much unless I’m crossing the country, in which case I wouldn’t risk it on a spare anyway. I’d like to see passenger cars do away with spares altogether to free up the luggage space and also reduce the number of people injured or killed while trying to change a…

This is exactly the problem, though. Relying on software means relying on the crappy integrated whatever the manufacturer decided to include in the car when it was sold (or replacing the head unit entirely, which bypasses this argument).

At some point I misread it as ‘Guilla’ and assumed it was pronounced giii-ya for years. Even now that I know how it’s supposed to sound I don’t get that from looking at it...

Bluetooth is wireless, which is bad on just about every level, even more so for something that moves. It’s also one of those ‘standards that isn’t entirely consistent’, which is why it’s often a pain to convince devices to work with one another.

It’s a lot easier when you can afford a limited production car than if you’re trying to ‘flip’ an ‘05 Camry, though.

It always bugs me that companies produce a set number of cars like this. Everyone’s putting in their order in advance, and they obviously have the tooling for (relatively) mass production anyway, why not just make as many as they can sell for a given time period instead? It’s still limited, can’t order a new one if…

“Is there a viable solution?”

“Grand Touring Homologated” is also completely meaningless to quite a lot of people. The average person not that interested in cars probably couldn’t even tell you what GT stood for.

I partially agree with this. One of racing’s biggest problems is that 90+% of the population can literally never even try it due to the insane costs involved. It’s not skill that makes someone into a racing driver, it’s money. (Skill makes you more successful, but you can’t be successful if you can’t try at all).

Big items get delivered. Unless you own something with a trailer or have kids, you hardly ever need more than the space for a couple suitcases.

Step 1: Don’t drink things in your car.

These aren’t actually sold at dealers in the U.S.  I had one shipped over from the U.K. literally the day I bought my car.

Well, it could be carbon fiber. A carbon fiber tub can take an extremely hard impact without breaking.

Exactly. I honestly don’t care how much power my car has, because I almost certainly can’t use most of it in the real world. I do care how much it weighs, because a lighter car moves around more easily. I still would have bought a FR-S if it only had 150 horsepower, because there isn’t a lighter car I can buy new for…

Unpopular opinion I know but: Who cares what companies do with this information? Worst case scenario is what, marketing companies do exactly what they’ve been doing for a hundred years, but with more accurate data. So what?