We’ve reached the point that it feels like reading wiki entries for superhero cars. “McLaren-Man’s Justice Cruiser has 5000 horsepower courtesy of twin nuclear turbines, the quantum-polymer paint reduces air friction to almost zero, and the inertial dampening spoiler eliminates all turbulence once the car breaks the…

Looking forward to Jack Doherty crashing one.

Any Nürburgring times?

Did they ever publish the P1 times after bragging how it would be the fastest?

AND with all this fancy aero, most of them will spend more time in a trailer going to car shows than on the road and track combined.

The odd number is a hint the designers were working in metric...

Wildly disappointing on the styling side.

I want to agree with you, but if you adjust for inflation, a base model Miata in 1989 would have been priced at $35,000 in today’s currency. That’s more than the $30,170 of the current base model. If any thing the car has gotten cheaper in real dollars.

“Your honor, I object to the use of ‘unexpectedly’ in the headline. It was expected to explode.”

Now we gotta pay the mad scientist 10 Grand to pull the engine apart

Worked at a repair shop in Alberta, one year had two Boxsters that Porsche denied warranty on due to a ‘large number of over revving incidents’ both of which had dropped valves into the engine

So the N cars don’t have rev limiters?

If it hasn’t blown up after 75 years, it’ll never bl.....

By granny shifting.  Not double clutching like he should.

There’s a big difference between taking the engine up to the rev limiter, and actual over-revving which can only really be caused by downshifting.

It says he took it to a drag strip. How to you overrev a modern engine while accelerating?

the engine had been red-lined multiple times

As they should. Overrevving is 100% user error. Hitting redline is the engine’s method of preventing overrevving. Mechanical overrev is what happened with this car, apparently multiple times. One can mechanically overrev their engine without experiencing immediate catastrophic failure, also knows as a money shift.…

“The Chevy SSR. Unnervingly ugly, not good at anything except acting as a callout to other drivers that you make poor decisions. And in convertible form, it just looked worse.”

Fun fact- the H2 which was too big for our roads is dwarfed by modern pickups. Yay progress!

The Subaru B9 Tribeca almost had a sister. GM owned 20% of Subaru at the time (which got us the Saab 9-2X aka Saabaru and a Chevrolet Forester in India). The 9-6X would have been the third collaboration, and would have been a somewhat restyled B9 Tribeca. But that project was canceled when GM sold it stake in Subaru…

I actually really liked the VW Phaeton. Who doesn’t need beautifully over engineered trunk hinges. :)