They’ll never stop making sports cars, even with a SUV:sportscar sales ratio of 99:1. Porsche is still considered as a sportscar brand, focussing on SUVs only would surely have a huge impact on their brand value and perception. From a relative perspective, they sell more SUVs, but the absolute number of sports car…

Why would that be?

and discontinue all of Porsche non-SUVs...

So much this. There are enough kids on youtube writing f*** the CGT it killed Paul Walker. But having to read sth. like that on Jalopnik is sad.

This. COTA is a nice place to compare F1, WEC, MotoGP and the IMSA Sportscar championship. Even LMP2 cars and DPs are faster than MotoGP bikes around that track. Last year’s GTLM pole was “only” 2 seconds slower than the MotoGP pole.

This also was my first impression but the upper edge doesn’t fit

made my day

Maybe it’s me but I’m not so sure about that..

Like Toyota, Audi is moving away from its flywheel-based energy storage to big ol’ batteries.

There never has been a mention of TDI on any of the etron quattro cars. Even their last “pure” diesel car from 2012 (the R18 ultra) had no mentions of TDI on it. The “R18 _TDI_” from 2011 was the last car with TDI stickers.

+1 for Raikonnen reference

Names of Vettel’s cars over the years (FYI):

German speaker here. What he is saying in the video is that the particular car he is sitting in (not the Model X in general) seems to be a prototype due to some glass elements in front of him.

GT racing never worked like that, so what do you mean by saying “...no one gives a shit anymore”?

How do you say “Squeal like a pig” in German?

Bathurst, yay!!!

That’s a nice piece of rock

Article says all’s well that ends well.

It’s due to the .gif compression. If you look closely, the whole street is “flashing”.

In case you are interested (grey line represents the full track):