You can see and avoid potholes better in a sportscar. And you aren’t nearly as likely to pull into someone elses lane because their entire car was below your line of sight.
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SAs and FBs have really gone up in value lately. A couple GSL-SEs have topped $20k, a nice SA can go over $10k. I got $4500 for mine, a ‘79 that badly needed paint and a new dash.
A new rotary is unlikely but not impossible. It’s not like they’re much worse on emissions or fuel economy than V8s, and there are still a fair number of those around. The biggest problem is that Mazda just doesn’t have the money.
I’m pretty sure it is from purely a visibility/eye-fatigue standpoint. There’s likely a good reason nearly all endurance race cars use yellow lights.
They’re still very much not supercars, at least to the rest of the world. In the U.S., ‘supercar’ pretty much exclusively covers ‘mid-engine, 2 seat, street legal, and typically Italian’. Touring cars (even if just a shell over a full racecar) don’t fit any part of that description.
Pretty sure this is still the case, because the V8 ‘supercars’ class still exists.
If you pull into the intersection knowing full well you’re going to drive through a red, you’re running a red light, whether it’s legal or not.
If you’re going to run the red light anyway, it makes no difference if you’re pulled into the intersection before you do it or not. In most intersections you’re travelling the same distance (since the shortest route is usually from where the line to stop is, not ten feet in front of it)
I actually like the styling, except for one glaring flaw: That ‘vent’ on the door. It doesn’t connect or flow into anything else on the car, it looks like a giant piece of tape that’s starting to fall off.
It’s against the law to do so, just rarely enforced. You can’t pull into the intersection until there’s actually space to complete your turn. If you stop in the middle you’re technically blocking traffic (even if that traffic isn’t allowed to move yet).
1000 miles a year @ 10 MPG is 100 gallons of fuel.
With only two doors?
Wasn’t their a (relatively) recent supercar that had a bare-metal key in the name of saving weight?
That’s somewhat missing the point. Yes, every road has a capacity, but it gets (effectively) much higher with automated cars that can react faster and much more accurately than humans do.
It depends on your other costs, especially housing and insurance. If you make $100k a year and are left with $40k after expenses every single year (entirely possible in some areas), there’s absolutely no reason not to spend that on a $70k car, it’s not even going to make a dent in 50 years of saving for retirement.
It’s fair to rephrase your comment as ‘Cities are dumb’, right? And I don’t mean that as an insult.
There’s a difference between ride sharing like Uber or taxis and a truly universal platform that handles the majority of cars in a city.
You actually want longer following distances to reduce travel times, not closer.
In terms of morning rush hour, you also have to consider that most traffic jams are caused by bad or inattentive drivers, not accidents or construction.