I’ve been debating cheap RX-8 vs expensive Boxster as a second car for a while now. I sold a ‘79 RX-7 a couple years ago and really miss the rotary. Honestly, the only thing keeping me away from a 8 is the fact that it has back seats. I don’t really want back seats in my fun car. (It’s also seriously difficult to find…

The apex seals are not the primary point of failure, the ignition coils were/are. The stock ones are only good for about 20k miles (designed for piston engines but fire three times as often).

The dash-wide screen reminds me of the Mazda Cosmo, it is very well integrated. Pity the Cosmo used a CRT touchscreen that stopped working about a day after you drove off the lot.

Beyond tires, “What’s the consumable cost per mile on track.” could be a useful metric. That would include everything, from tires/brakes/gas to fluid changes, worn out suspension, and even ‘the stuff that breaks when you push it too hard’.

My last car had a physical, bare-metal key. It was amazing.

Well at $100k for a daily driver they can’t expect to sell very many.

It’s a legitimate complaint that California gets to set standards for the entire country.

This may be true but Audi is German, their museum is probably in Germany, and last I heard, it’s illegal to display a swastika on anything there. Can’t really blame Audi for removing them.

You overestimate the average person’s attention span.

This honestly doesn’t surprise me that much. This sort of thing happens all the time in the software world.

This is pretty much exactly why some people don’t like the BRZ (or the RX-7/RX-8/S2000). You can’t just casually decide ‘I want all the power NOW’. You have to commit to it, because most/all of the power is at the very top of the range, and you can’t get there without an extra downshift or by redlining first from a…

The point is that it’s not acceptable to work full-time for these companies, because they don’t offer any full time positions.

There’s a big difference between only being able to travel a block or two and being able to travel five or ten miles.

The only thing I want from semi-autonomous driving is for cars to start moving when the light turns green or the car in front of them starts moving. Let off the gas at 5 mph to force the driver to take over, but start moving.

We really should just be working in the other direction: Get rid of cities entirely. They don’t make sense, cramming a ton of stuff into not enough space.

More realistically, uber and lyft and the like shouldn’t have ANY operating costs.

It can be pretty difficult to find a car to drive for those two hours if you don’t own one or know someone who does, though. I ended up buying my first manual car without being able to drive it home (admittedly it wouldn’t idle, so driving it was a challenge for just about anyone).

Is there a standard for charging formats yet (that’s actually being used)? Or we still stuck on this absolutely insane path of building a different charging station for every make of car?

I known it’s not really your point, but power seats suck, especially in a sporty two seater where you set them once and never move them again. They’re slow, heavy, and prone to failure, while manual seat adjustment takes half a second, rarely breaks, and can usually be fixed with simple hand tools if it does.

Ehh, depends on the demographic. It’s a lot easier to afford an expensive toy if you don’t have kids, and it’s also much easier to live with one if you don’t have kids. 6 bags of groceries is like, four months worth of food for me, and I don’t have to drive other people around.