The only ‘car’ they sell in the U.S. is the three-wheeler, and they only sell it here because it’s not technically a car.  That hardly counts.

If only they sold cars in the U.S....

In some cars with LEDs you can’t really help it.

I’ve always thought the same thing about rotaries.  Yeah, they have no torque at low RPM.  That’s the whole point.  You don’t need torque if you’re just driving around town, and it makes any chance you have to actually use the full rev range a lot more of an event.

As others have posted:

A few thousand of these doing a few thousand miles a year is a drop in the bucket even compared to a tenth of all prius sales.  There’s just not enough volume for them to make any difference at all.

If the snow is deep enough locking the wheels will make you stop faster.  Just like in rally driving, locking the wheels encourages them to dig into the ground rather than roll over it.

I agree. I’ve briefly looked into importing a car from Japan but never found a way to do it, at any cost.

School wasn’t that long ago, but there’s a difference between covering twenty languages in four years and working with thirty year old code on a daily basis.

Totally depends on the language... I write code for a living and didn’t catch the joke. In my day to day work, = is both the comparison and assignment operator. For all sorts of dumb reasons this is an entirely valid line of code (it just prints a 1, bonus points if anyone recognizes the language):

While I agree with the sentiment and xkcd in general... I have definitely seen road signs intentionally modified, e.g. a sign for 25 reading 125 or 250 (most common near high schools for obvious reasons).

Is it $30k more fun in the real world than a manual C7?

The BRZ weighs 500 pounds less than the Supra. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if a 4 cylinder supra was about on par with the current BRZ.

Why would anyone want this?

This study kind of refutes the point that electric cars are really saving the world though.

But that’s the point, right?  75MPH for three hours on end IS a real world test, because that’s when the range matters, not when you’re in town.

Humans have a decision making process, and can (theoretically) state what moved them towards a particular outcome. We can even point out the fatal flaw in their reasoning sometimes.

What road trips do you take where you’re NOT cruising at about 75 mph for several hours?

Interchangeable parts are more or less incompatible with capitalism today.  There’s no reason for two companies to work with one another, and a huge incentive to actively fight interoperability.

I’ve been toying with buying a 05-09 XJR as a second car recently, they’re at about 90% depreciation nowadays and actually pretty reliable.