200 HP and 2400 pounds is far from underpowered - that's the kind of power to weight ratio reserved for pre-Coyote Mustang GTs and far more than a 2nd gen WRX.

The motor is too low. I've read the platform isn't compatible with an AWD layout. Personally, as a Subaru owner and dyed in the wool fanboy, I hope it is RWD. Traditional Subaru elements like quirky/ugly styling, turbo lag, more boxer throb relative to the Toyota version but with non-traditional oversteery RWD…

The interior is awesome. The 2000GT homage window treatment is lovely. It's not perfect aesthetically, but if it drives nearly as well as has been promosied I'll be driving one of these next year.

Most of Clarkson's isms are written by Richard Porter, of SniffPetrol, Gareth Jones on Speed and EVO fame.

I always liked his review of the RX-8:

puts the chops to mum's marley paste, fast up yer bummer, innit?

It takes a big man to admit he's wrong - so I'll repay you in kind.

It's pretty amazing.

I love that guy - genius bit too, I've never heard it and I've seen the guy live recently.

Is it from laziness, leaden and numbed senses or just sheer inability as a writer to convey details that aren't easily summed into numbers that the driving experience of one of the world's great cars - driven at length and on a empty race track - is detailed in all of one paragraph?

I'd donate a teste to Rosie O'donnell for the chance to rub up against a T87. Perhaps two.

He'll be missed, but the man had shit taste in music.

I wanna go yump the STi now... it's 11:30 at night and I can't because I don't wanna be a dick and wake the neighbors with my loud-ass immature exhaust on my loud-ass immature car.

I was referring more to the current state of Honda cars.

If you like to hoon, BMW.

I've heard this thing start liev in the flesh at Irvine Cars & Coffee - it's obscene how good it sounds.

When Honda engineering was the best in the world. Soichiro's spirit is not happy right now.

EB110. 02:42 - high-pitched starter, cough, 12 cylinders catching slowly ooooooone-by-ooooone like a WWII fighter, then a short but not exaggerated "brrRRAAPPP" from the pipes, before settling into a busy, complex and expensive-sounding idle.

Not power oversteer. Not real oversteer.

An FC RX-7 that isn't a fucking convertible.