I disagree...so much so that I replaced my open diff with a mechanical one. What undesirable effects are you referring to?

Listen, it's better than dancing chickens or cars that detect and eliminate farts. I'll take it :-)

They'll figure it out. The rest of the world did when they changed.

As described in the article, that's only half the problem, and it's the easy half, and the only reason it would help is because no idiots have come up with a 'liter' that has a different volume, unlike gallons. Gallons/100 miles would be fine if everyone used the same gallons.

Because there is only one mass produced car with CF monocoques being released this year, and it's barely a car as we know it. (i3). Meanwhile, Mercedes and others have been bragging about their all-aluminium models coming out over the last couple of years, despite being almost a decade behind Jag (Hello, all aluminium…

Piper, from what I've heard.

And because until quite recently, 4WD cars meant locked diffs, which are terrible on-road. Newer trucks have some options now, but computer controlled diffs are way, way better than a selectable transfer case unless you're rock-crawling.

I think it's supposed to be reasonably priced for what it is; it's more unique because it's a Honda jet, and they've never made a plane before. The engine displacement is unusual but not unheard of, as far as I can tell. I have not idea how it competes with anything else, to be honest-future Flight club article,…

Haha, well, more likely it sounds like this:

People may not be so hesitant to drive their RWD Jags in winter if the company hadn't been selling them with 400 hp and an OPEN GODDAMN DIFFERENTIAL for a friggin generation.

Well, they CAN say just about whatever they want. Their employers CAN also then fire them for saying ignorant, bigoted crap. America, land of the free!

They made Trabants with good brakes?

Then you'd hope Subaru could get there! And Maserati, from what I've heard about the new Ghibli.

They use a twin scroll turbo-cannot be bothered to look up the details, but there are either two stages of turbine or compressor. Maybe I could stick one in the wife's car...

Well, the price is better and the engine is in the right place :-) How about a modern day 914? Or MGB?

Slower than Plymouths and Pontiacs from a decade before! And the 911 had been around for ages by then, and was more expensive than the muscle cars. A cool chart (not exhaustive of course):http://www.caranddriver.com/features/rocke…

Sorry-old reply. My point is this-the FRS is an old-school definition of sports car. Old 911s and many other cars fit this as well-they were slower, much slower, in a straight line than their much heavier muscle car/sedan contemporaries, but they were focused on looks and handling. Corvettes bucked this trip early-the…

Looks like BMW has cracked the lag thing-

Not in a straight line. Muscle cars owned them for decades-look it up. Old muscle cars were going sub-6 seconds while 911s were going 10.

Looking good and being fun to drive is literally the classic definition of a sports car. See the old British roadsters, Porsches, etc.