They don’t need any help with oil leaks, it is a Subaru after all.

A guy I knew in high school had a 914 2.0, such a cool little car. I’d love to own one. Or see Porsche develop a new 4cyl MR model with Toyota, making a new 914 and MR2.

There are 65 available in the whole country right now, at least on cars.com ;)

I’d prefer the Corolla hatchback with a stick as well, but I’m not going to do anything to discourage buyers from considering any affordable hatch with a manual gearbox.

I found all three of them in less than 2min, and they’re all within 100 miles of me! That was easy. You must be terrible at online car shopping, that or you have the world’s slowest internet connection.

People are being very hypercritical of it. It’s what they do apparently.

Every car it keeps getting compared to has anywhere from 70-125hp more, and yet their 0-60 times are worse or only marginally better. They’re pretty much all heavier, and all of them have larger dimensions. (This is referring mainly to the M2,…

Well, the vents are actually functional and based off of development of the race car. They just need the caps removed and ducting added. In reality people just driving on the road don’t need all the extra cooling and air flow, and those taking it to the track are likely to add modifications to make these functional…

Depends on the boardroom. If you’ve got nothing but bean counters, you’re in a tough spot. But if you’ve got executive leadership that actually has a passion for cars, you will have a pretty solid chance of selling it. Again, sports cars aren’t really about just the specific models’ sales numbers/margin. They play…

My points were more to the tone that; yes, things look bleak for the Miata, and sports cars as a whole, but it’s a niche segment that generally serves a purpose beyond sales figures. Manufacturers know that sports cars give life to a brand, and the people that buy them are often champions of that brand in the market.…

I disagree. I think they are just going to realize that it’s a smaller portion of overall sales, and continue with joint efforts to develop the model further. Mazda is also reporting some pretty strong sales numbers, primarily from making such great mainstream models, in recent years too. They’re performing almost as…

Miata sales are following pretty much the same trend as always, and really the basic sports car formula of a spike at the beginning of a new model/generation followed by steadily decreasing numbers.

Too bad a lot of younger riders don’t have $30k to spend on a bike. I think they’re placing their bets too high. It’s like if GM’s response to their financial collapse was to build a brand new state of the art hybrid sports car, instead of making/revising their core lineup to better suit the market.

How do you expect this to go down? Do you think GM might keep an extra plant around to appease Congress?

I’ve always skipped gears, shifting both up and down, and the clutch on my FR-S far outlasted that of most people I know. Really the TOB is the part that goes out, my clutch face still had a fair bit of life on it when I replaced everything around 90k. I’ve had a few people comment on me skipping gears before, but…

Maybe it was the American people, for not loving the Cruze enough. Maybe it was the UAW for not pressuring GM to get its shit together. Maybe, and this is going to sound crazy, it was GM for, uh, making boring cars that didn’t make it money.

A mid-size pickup or SUV that can act as a “daily,” I mostly take the train to work so daily means more about town on the weekends vehicle, and occasional tow rig so I can relegate the FR-Slow to dedicated track car duty.

The new Ford Ranger is VERY appealing for this, and the Canyon/Colorado doesn’t look bad either. I…

Neutral: A revival of the MID4 concept car built on the A110 platform and called the MID2

Yeah, driving one at the Ring really made me appreciate what a fantastic little hot hatch it is. Though I think I yearn for the Yaris GRMN even more.

Not quite the same Swift. They do seem to make great rally cars though. haha

My rental for the Nurburgring last year was a Swift Sport, absolutely adored that car. With Toyo R888s some mild suspension, brake, and power mods it felt like a giant go-kart. If they sold them in the USA I’d 100% daily one with the occasional track day thrown in.