About 15 years ago I test drove one of the other 7. Build quality is atrocious. Bits and pieces of it WILL come off in your hands. The late 60s tube-frame TVRs are your best bet, if you fit inside.

Yes.

Will they slow the car down like the phones when a new model comes out???

PS, thanks for being willing to debate without things getting out of hand. It’s good to have online.

Exactly, my point. You have nothing but anecdotes that goes against years of product sales. You are saying a proven sales and promotion technique needs to go away because you have a hunch it is driving away talent in other areas?

...and this is of interest why? He posited a moral dilemma on twitter and gets shit for merely daring to ask the question? Man people have become so f’in sensitive lately!!

Radwood 2 is currently in full swing. It’s time to drive into the new millennium with a Toyota MR2.

Thank German anal retentiveness for the galvanized steel. The only section I expect rust is where battery acid leaked.

I didn’t say we were the only one, but there aren’t many. But we are certainly one of the, if not the only, countries that obsesses over it.

Wrong. The US does not do better. From http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150602-do-the-british-have-bad-teeth:

I honestly don’t think that’s at all the case. Most of western Europe seems perfectly keen on oral health. A lot of them just don’t care for orthodontics.

This is true. Just to reinforce the point:

“after Porsche closed their wildly successful Formula One team down.”

It looks like a car from the 90s ...

Uh, scroll back up, re-read the article, then come back and try again. This is “boring dream car,” not “dream car.”

These are both limited-production, specialty versions of well-regarded cars. How on earth are these “boring” in any way?

And yet the 309 GTi was actually pretty decent.

Yep, and if it is then it’s essentially Government propaganda. Back then the Government made it law that cinemas had to show a certain amount of British produced film so we got little movies like this before the main feature, designed to re-enforce British values. One hilarious series of films to look up on youtube is…

Pardon me, but this entire digression borders on insane. Here’s a handy guide for anyone who is debating whether they should coast downhill or leave their car in gear

Come on guy. They lost to Trinidad and Tobago. The United States. We shouldn’t lose to Trinidad and Tobago at anything. ANYTHING. If you don’t think that’s at least a little bit hilarious, well, I don’t know what to tell you. If England ever loses to Bermuda, you’d never stop laughing.