The argument was never whether it was a good car or not. The argument was, “isn’t 600 hp a silly and almost useless amount of power for a car like this.” And my point was, “yeah, it is, considering that the overwhelming majority of the people who buy them 1, never push them anywhere close to their limits, and 2, don’t…

I hope the thieves are caught and castrated.

I work with people who drive cars like this. By and large, they are irredeemable, and the only thing they know/care about car-wise is how much they cost.

Something tells me it wasn’t (only) their bladders that needed relief.

You sound like a scumbag teenager trying way too hard to be cool.

You don’t seem to be getting it:

It’s not that track-day drivers aren’t good. It’s that they aren’t driving new M5s.

These videos are sort of the automotive equivalent of seeing someone get hit in the nuts. Not the highest form of humor, or even schadenfreude, but still pretty reliable for a laugh.

Oddly, most of my wrenching shirts are white. Something about my body chemistry turns white shirts yellow no matter what I try as far as cleaning goes. So, when a white shirt starts to turn, it becomes a wrenching/painting shirt.

Even on a track, almost none of the middle-age white guys who buy these executive penis-stretchers have the skill to handle a 2+ ton, 600-hp car. I doubt most of them could make use of even half that much power on a track.

Well, now he can buy one of those new Lamborghini Urinal SUVs for this kind of stuff.

What does it look like with the front bumper cap installed?

Yes, acceleration is a thing. A thing I enjoy. And having less power, for me at least, means getting to enjoy it more frequently with fewer chances of bad things happening. I like to wring out my engine as much as I can get away with. As it is, I can only wring out two gears worth anywhere but on a track. Better than…

Autocross doesn’t do it for me, but I have been out on the Streets of Willow, and it’s pretty fun. Expensive habit, though.

I didn’t know naval aviators did roadwork.

The only part I really care about is that the cats are OK. Phew.

2,100 lbs., actually. Redline in 3rd gear equates to an illegal speed pretty much anywhere in the US.

My car has maybe 120 hp, and I am frequently frustrated by not being able to use as much of it as I want to. Too much traffic, or a few slow drivers ruining it for everyone, or just plain realizing that if I put my foot too deep in the accelerator I’ll potentially face legal consequences all conspire in formenting…

I don’t see it quite so simply. For instance, if it’s unreliable and an expensive maintenance nightmare (and having a BMW powertrain and Bosch electronics, that’s virtually guaranteed), then even badging it as a Toyota is a mistake.

The last thing I read about it said it was sharing the BMW drivetrain, and that it would be automatic-only. It was also hinted that BMW did most of the platform work (still wonder if they put an awful strut front end on it), and that the electronics would be Bosch, not Denso.