I wouldn’t just say “a Ferrari”. You can buy a 308 for ~$40k and keep it running for at least a little while with another 10-20k. Still cheaper than many new cars.
I wouldn’t just say “a Ferrari”. You can buy a 308 for ~$40k and keep it running for at least a little while with another 10-20k. Still cheaper than many new cars.
Am I the only one that thinks removing door handles in anything short of a pure racecar is hugely stupid? Remove the non-functional weight before you rip out the door handles that actually serve a useful purpose.
A relative has one of these (a mk1 though). It’s in his garage. It’s been there for thirty years. (took it apart to repaint, finished that, all that’s left is rewiring the entire car...)
As others have said, the allure of supercars should be ‘fun’ and ‘crazy’, not performance numbers. Yes, they’ve always had those in the past, but fundamentally they don’t really matter unless it’s a semi-dedicated track car like a GT3. Especially in the early days of ‘max speed is everything’ supercars weren’t…
Needs Paint, Interior, or Bodywork.
I’m confused. I got about halfway through the replies and haven’t seen any steel dashboards yet. Sure, they’re not safe, but they look amazing. The Porsche 356 has probably the best dashboard of any car, despite it’s body looking terrible.
It’s not really a first gen Bronco if it already has a modern engine swapped in, is it?
The auto RX-8s have a much lower redline than the manuals. I think it’s 6k for the autos, it’s definitely 9k for manuals.
Unless your car comes stock with (terrible) summer tires, i.e., the BRZ/86. I’m not tossing out a $400 set of tires, so it’s winter tires in the ~3 months we have below zero, even though there’s usually only snow on the ground a few days a year.
Turbos don’t help with real world fuel economy either, fuel economy standards are still why they’re put on practically every new car.
TVRs were relatively cheap new. Vipers were not.
In many cases, they can’t sell them at all, because emissions regulations more or less require turbos or superchargers.
Where are 20-year old used (electric) cars going to come from in 2030? Brand new electric cars are less than 10% of the market right now, and the vast majority of cars on the road are used, with 10 years old being a rough average.
When you’re between gears, the speeds are not the same, and that’s when you want to know the difference. The gear you want to switch to, the engine, and I think the input shaft? are all effectively spinning at different speeds.
In the U.S., the purchase price is all you’ll ever have to pay, plus maybe like $50 a year to register and plate it and a couple hundred a year to insure.
Why don’t any cars have dual tachometer needles, one for the transmission and one for the engine? Have any cars done this?
It just needs it’s rotary engine back, or one like this anyway:
At least someone might fit, vs the backseat in, say, a Mustang.
It’s very rare for me while driving (I’ve never driven on a track), but I can’t ride in the backseat of tiny cars anymore for more than half an hour or so without feeling sick.
You don’t cross shop a $15k Maserati and a $15k Toyota. You cross shop a $15k Maserati and $35k in maintenance to a new $50k BMW/Mercedes/Whatever.