They’ve actually already done this with what I’d want: The Jaguar D-Type/XKSS. Pity it’s not street legal or anywhere near affordable.

On the topic of lane discipline, at least in big cities in the US, there aren’t enough lanes to handle the traffic as-is. We use all the lanes for travel and everyone is still going twenty under the speed limit. Anyone know if it’s like that in European countries that have lane discipline laws, or do they just build…

It IS the point I was trying to make, however.

Well you cut out half the comment, so yeah, I can see that.

And it’s somehow less of a pain when you have to pay for the service yourself on top of that?

Everyone is completely misunderstanding my comment.

Compare that to your 2014 Pathfinder that’s out of warranty and having the same symptoms. Then you’re out basically the full purchase price of the car. On a new one you’re just losing time.

From what I hear, it pretty much doesn’t, at least, not statistically.  Most people that buy cars to keep forever buy them used.

I always wonder why people buying cars brand-new care about reliability so much. They’re getting a warranty, and aren’t likely going to have the car long enough to encounter any significant problems anyway (unless they’re an early adopter on a brand-new model).  Even if they do have problems, they won’t have to pay…

I bet a few tickets for no front plate is still cheaper than drilling holes in the front of a 720s.

The aggressive look doesn’t really fit the R8 that well when it’s supposed to be the soft alternative to the Huracan. That said, it’s probably a good thing that it doesn’t look quite as much like every other Audi on the road anymore.

I agree that the Daytona is hideous, I do not think it looks like a (corvette) kit car, though.

If this was entirely true, we’d see a lot more small sportscars, the equivalent of a $1000 phone instead of the $20 flip phone Camry.  The whole point of their marketing campaigns is to make them desirable. Most people jump as far as they can in the opposite direction, looking for things they feel are ‘practical’…

I ‘budget’ nearly 50% of my take home income to cars, but it doesn’t go to payments. It’s a lot easier to budget a huge amount towards something when you control when to spend it. 

Have you ever bought a car when you were planning to? I certainly haven’t. Accidents and catastrophic failure were the reasons behind every (daily driver) I’ve ever bought.  I could not afford to rent a car for two months waiting on a custom order to come in.

What about the less-insane but more driveable V6 version?

That seems strange to me.  I’d put the RX-7 in the top five or ten, but I can’t stand the Supra.  It’s always looked bloated, big, heavy, and ugly to me.

Yeah, reliability isn’t even my main concern. If I’m only putting 5k on it every year, 50k is an awfully long time.

There’s a pretty obvious reason we cannot switch over entirely to electric cars by 2040:

I think the question really is: Do enough of the rarer materials even exist, regardless of whether we can get to them or not? As far as I know, we do not yet have a definitive answer.