Not a terrible investment, but there are a number of stocks that have increased far more than 20x since the mid-90s. Apple for instance, if you bought $1Million worth of shares in 1995, you’d have over $200Million now.

Well, you have to be an aspiring model/actor/musician or business owner looking to get public exposure and a paycheck. So that’s about 1/4 of the population of LA or New York in the 25-35 age group and another few million or so splattered across the rest of America.

I disagree, in racing, you can have a flat tire and go off the course causing you to be lapped but after a pit stop pace faster than every other car. Gotta be allowed to pass and fight for position because it’s a race and not an aristocracy.

Yup, and I hope those considerations are made before issuing a blue flag on a driver. It is a flag rule, not a compulsory rule meaning you wait for the flag to be issued to yield, not yield automatically on your own if you’re a lap down and the 1st place driver happens to come up behind you.

If that’s NOT the case,…

As I understand it he’s at Autotrader.com/oversteer. He seems to mention it in a lot of his videos...Ive never been there is it good? haha

Oh, BMW in particular is known for it’s M cars shitting the bed and spending tons of time in the shop...but I agree they usually last long enough for a Journalist cycle.

If I owned a car like this, I’d rag on it like a Journalist. It’s why I would spend the premium to buy and drive a brand new car with a warranty. That’s the point.

The only cars that shouldn’t be asked to stand up to abuse like that are classics. If you’re buying something new off the lot it shouldn’t shit the bed.

With…

Uhh, Ford and GM etc. are relevant because people who have $60,000 bucks to spend on a sports car are going to consider their options and $60 grand gives you a TON of options these days.

I mean it’s designed to be a tuner car...great. Tuner cars are popular because they are CHEAP to start off with. This is already…

It is better than a Ferrari, many Ferrari’s in fact dating back many many decades in every measure. And then the newer Ferarris that are, in fact “better” than the Camaro are out of reach but also so coveted that even the rich guys who own them keep them off the road and in the garage and can’t enjoy them.

I agree BUT, Ford has failed to put their award winning engines in anything other than the Mustang or F150. There’s such obvious low-hanging fruit to make a GOOD sport-luxury family sedan based off the 5.0L engine and yet...KIA of all brands is taking all of the press and kudos.

If my wife weren’t so dead-set on our…

With GM, it might become as ‘stale’ but I doubt it will ever stop being a good deal.  Nissan has managed to keep cranking up the price of the GTR, GM in 8 years will be offering the C8 for less like every other generation.

Yup, you’re exactly right. I mean, it’s targeted to sell against the Cayman which has absurdly low sales volume.  If Toyota killed off the FJ cruiser because of “low sales volume” then the Supra will survive roughly 2 years lol.  It’s going to sell under 7,000 units a year if that.  

I disagree. It still costs millions to develop a new transmission and put it into production. Perhaps if there happens to be a manual transaxle already being produced they could retrofit it may happen, but the chassis itself is almost certainly engineered for a shift-by-wire transmission so it would be a pretty janky…

It doesn’t really get slower with age unless the battery is worn down below 75% of its original capacity which would qualify it for a replacement under warranty if the car has fewer than 100,000 miles.

It’s not JUST because of 0-60 times that the manual doesn’t exist, it’s a huge expense to engineer any type of new transmission for mass production and a cheaper-to-produce transmission is only cheaper if you sell enough of them to wash over the startup Development costs.

And frankly, not enough people buy manuals in…

A: Those ARE driver’s cars AND I think porsche secretly embraces that because they want the Cayman slower than the 911. What better way than keeping driver error a thing to deal with?

It’s still fun pulling paddles. And the Corvette has more been about all-out performance and punching above it’s class. We will still have manual transmissions for many many years, but in the smaller, cheaper drivers car category like the MX-5, BRZ, WRX/STI and other little hot hatch’s.

I think more…

Not really, you still gotta develop it (the manual transmission) and develop the tooling to manufacture it so the fixed/startup cost is similar even though the operational cost of actually producing the manual transmission might be lower. You’d have to end up producing and selling enough to dilute the startup cost to…

your #5 is sound advice for EVERY car maker and I imagine we could soon find ourselves in a world where the car market boils itself down to having very small lineups and fewer trim levels. More will come standard in each trim but choices will be easier.

Part of me thinks Tesla is selling well because they don’t make a…

I think Nissan’s story is likely going to play out for more than just their brand over the coming couple of years.  Dare I say it, but Honda could be next.