I took some decent speed sweepers and some sharp 90 degree turns. Unassisted brakes were probably my biggest annoyance, and the pedal spacing was not to my liking for heel toe. The throttle response felt like it needed a much stronger stab to get the revs to match on downshifts which also irked me. Again, I’m coming…

Go for it. Even 996 Turbos are relatively dirt cheap for the power you get!

For sure it goes beyond a monetary comparison. Just because they’re in the same price range, there’s other factors that certain groups of car owners are willing to put value on than others. For me the Lotus takes it a step further than the air cooled 911 in the lightweight ethos but gives up some of that German clunky…

One of the biggest aftermarket vendors for the Lotus is Sector111, or S111 for short. I probably brain farted and just mixed the chassis code with the retailer lol

Yeah the 911 still is a great car of its time and every car owner is willing to look past some aspect of their cars’ faults or quirks for the overall feeling it gives them

Sorry, my dyslexia is showing. I meant 111S, or Lotus Elise/Exige

Lotus Elise/Exige... sorry I’m dyslexic it’s actually 111S

I must be the only person who ever drove a classic 911 (87 G50), and felt disappointment in its dynamics, steering, and brake feel. Part of me gets the hype, but once driving one I lost a little sense of the initial excitement. I want to tell myself it was just a phase, and that I’d never sell my S111 for one as it…

Again, that’s a “feeling” from isolated tests. Robb leaves it open ended intentionally because historically Audi’s sports coupe is always a relative disappointment. Even if it raised its game, so have its competitors. The relative gap to BMW is probably going to be the same, and I say that as a non-BMW fanboy.

I RTFA. It’s relatively better than the previous understeery pig TTRS. And you also mentioned it’s still FWD most of the time, although better than other Audis in transitioning torque. To me that still reads like it’s less of an understeery pig. I doubt it’ll hold a candle once you do the comparison to M2/Cayman.

It’ll still be a understeery pig of an Audi despite the weight loss. And it’s sad that 3200 lbs is considered light these days.

How about we get a stand in for Vin Diesel?

Can it reverse by spinning counter clockwise?

Does iOS10 retain the iOS9 bug where you can remove fade-in animation between app switching by going to Accessibility, turning on Assistive Touch and then messing with the Keyboard swiping on the home screen until the animation glitch kicks in?

Elise

Food is the great universal language!

Specifically Mainland Chinese tourists. Taiwanese and Hong Kong residents are generally more polite, courteous, and willing to follow generally accepted common rules of decency. I’m Chinese-American and have lived in Beijing and Hong Kong for extended periods, and have noticed strong cultural differences.

Loved this song ever since they performed it on Chappelle’s show and Kanye was still considered underground. Chappelle talked about this performance years later, saying Kanye knew he was the shit even before he blew up (and Common/Kanye/Talib listening to Jay-Z’s Black Album together)

The Nissan