Of all the manual Porsches crossovers to get, why not this?

Lies!

I don’t believe you. This was definitely a JDM-only car with a campaign built on American lifestyle branding, sort of like Bill Murray selling whiskey. This car was never on American roads. Nope, I’m sure of it.

Not for the prior generations, and I doubt for this one.

Apropos of nothing, for many years “za” has been my go-to cheap way of landing a “z” on a score multiplier while also encouraging a challenge.

Camaje in NYC does this for three dinner seatings a week (https://www.camaje.com/dinners-in-the-dark). It’s an interesting experience - I recommend it.

You sound like a real keeper.

Alternatively: “Everybody Wants John Cena’s Ford GT So It Keeps Getting Flipped”

I’m sorry for coming off like a douchebag about it. I’m extremely excited about this car, and about the prospect of it coming with a stick, and about the prospect of new technologies that might make that stick a real alternative to a DCT (not that there’s enough detail here to conclude that, just to dream on it). It’s…

Actually, yes - I think so. If I started complaining about excessive ground clearance in a thread about rock crawlers, I’d expect people more knowledgable than me about them to correct me. And then if I doubled down despite having zero knowledge on the topic in question, I’d expect them to put me in my place. The…

Otherwise gas and clutch are all I’ve ever used.

You will never have to modulate your clutch input in any way approaching the way you routinely modulate your accelerator or brake inputs.

This I can believe. In normal operation you shouldn’t be receiving clutch feedback in anything resembling the way you receive steering or braking feedback.

But when? If I’m doing a gear change on the track I’m sure as heck not trying to finesse it right around the feather point: clutch goes in, gear is changed, throttle is blipped if downshifting, clutch goes out.

Am I the only person here who doesn’t think clutch “feel” is a thing? Brake feel, definitely. Accelerator feel, possibly. But clutch feel? From a dead stop I’m feeling gear engagement through my butt, not my left foot. And at speed clutch operation should be more or less binary. So what is this “feel” I might miss…

The car can distribute up to half its power to the rear wheels

That’s not the right question. The question to ask is: “What sporty and practical wagons are *not* sold here but have sedan versions that *are* sold here?” And the answer is: a lot.

Endorsed

And Cadillac’s engineers were apparently quite adamant about it being “fun to drive.”

I know only one “real” retired race car driver, a champion in BTCC and in European open-wheel racing (below the level of F1 obv.). He surprised once me by going on at length about how much fun oval racing is - precisely because the simplicity of the track demands such attention to all the racing skills besides just…