Suzuki: add ingenuity. Hooray for them.

All of this posts sound to me like: “Hey! I’m some guy in Europe with a super rare supercharged 10th Gen Ford Thunderbird. I can sell it to you but you’ll need to drive me around sometimes.”

With the R-GT category it is not *that* rare. Some national championships were won by drivers in 911, among them the Spanish Tarmac Rally Championship.

It already exists. It is the R-GT category. It is mainly dominated by the 911 GT3, but the Abarth 124, the V8 Vantage or even the 360 Modena are homologated.

“Now, when a Porsche is built for offthe track—that’s special.”

It is curious, since in here Audi is keeping quite a lot of options with manual. Daimler has some (but not really relevant) and it is BMW which is making great inroad with the ultimate driving machine and whatnot is making then disappear from their catalogues.

“A note: it’s not that I hate BMWs, that I have some personal vendetta against them and would rather die than be caught behind the wheel of one. In fact, I actually like the old boxy rally bimmers a hell of a lot. It’s more that I cannot fathom how or why I decided to spew this absolute nonsense when I would not…

The article is full of inaccuracies, like Mercedes stopping sportscar racing to focus on F1 which simply isn’t true.

I have driven Z4M Coupes, M3 V8 saloons, F-Type S Coupes, XF 4.2 V8s, Supercharged Cooper Ss, 16v Mk2 GTIs and the list goes on and on and on.

All american articles about manual gearboxes: “I’m american and I don’t know how to drive, this article will teach you how.”

Welcome to the European rally scene! We do corners, manual gearboxes and free healthcare! We will adopt you should you want to stay.

First gear: so yoy bought a car which had a certain performance and fuel economy and now you are forced to have it reprogrammed to do worse on both aspects?

Oh good god! Why are American cars so damn horrible?

It was all good when an M BMW meant you had something really special.

Raphael, you’d have a very hard time in Europe as you’d pretty much have to buy all cars...

Many cars with this shift pattern have a ring on the gear lever which you have to pull in order to engage reverse. Or in the case of BMWs there is a clear resistance to engage reverse.

This. Unless I give you permission you are not allowed to touch my radio (or any other car control for that matter...) oaf of a passenger!

The original 1 Series (at least with Xenon headlamps) did the same. If you left them on, the light were on when the car was started, off when you switched it off.

The 2 litre is an entirely different animal. Not only for the more powerful engine but it is as if all the little changes add up to make a completely different car.

Ah, then it’s only for the speed factor. We could agree on that.