Wow, that is some sorry dick waving. I have driven it. My friend got the first one in Austin. It is as fun as the reviews say. Again you seem to miss the point. A nicer interior adds weight. It adds Complexity and Cost. All elements are a trade off. Putting a custom interior would cost more than a “few bucks” as you…

I honestly cannot tell if you are trolling me? Are you actually comparing an impala to a hand-made carbon fiber masterpiece? Low volume cars are expensive. Low volume cars made with exotic materials are even more expensive. In order to keep the price at $50K they cut corners on the interior because they know that…

Again, you are missing the point? Want everything? Go pay more. The 458 is a nice place to be and a hell of drivers car.

But, that sort is the concept of this category of car (See Elise, Exige, Miata, BAC Mono, etc). They are not “nice places to be” they “fun places to be”. Driving dynamics, compelling looks, everything else be damned. If you want wonderful places to be for $50K Audi, Mercedes and Cadillac all have cars they would like…

Given the price of this car and the complexity of its construction they have to cut corners somewhere. It is incredibly cheap for what it is. I never understood why people care so much about minute interior elements.

Biggest mistake here is that it looks too small to be driven by an adult as well. Cuz you better believe if I am dropping $125k on this toy for my kid I want a go in it is well. [Checks craigslist for used monster trucks...]

Yes, actually, they do buy them. But they get about as much respect there as they do here. No one is being fooled by them. And they are just as bad as you imagine. If you hop in one, seats will wiggle, doorhandles bend, they come out of alignment because you looked at a pothole and pretty much everything breaks in the…

What sad and strange response. I don’t get but-hurt about cars. My 911 has all kinds of compromises. I am aware of them and I chose it anyway.

Well, regardless of whether the clutch wear is “premature” it is still a $8K job when it does go, right? It seems like all heavy maintenance is an engine-out issue. I have driven one and, yes, they are great toys but I wouldn’t call it “far more thrilling” than my 911.

Good christ! I just did some research; ~$8- $9K to replace a clutch as you have to drop the engine. Apparently $1K of that is just removing the rear clamshell! For comparison, I just had my 911 4S clutch done and it was $1,100. I was passively considering an Evora S 2+2 when they fell below $40k. Scratch that!

I identified a specific example of a public British institution that has a stated policy regarding attacking a subordinate that is different than the BBC and yet seems be showing long-term success with a different policy? Seems relevant given that was the specifc question you asked.

Is a knee-jerk firing _actually_ a better outcome than another form of punishment? If everything was a simplistic as you seem to want, I doubt would not be better off at all. Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending some of the US-style nonsense (why isn’t Lindsay Lohan in Jail?) but getting fired because of a physica…

To be clear, he should have been punished, but lots of people have gotten into fights in lots of situations and kept their jobs. Do you think no one has ever been punched in the Royal Marines? I looked it up, it doesn’t get you thrown out automatically. Lots of people lost their jobs because of the BBC’s decision too.…

I’d like to hear more about this. I had heard the maintenance prices were not far off from any run of the mill 911.

Thank you, citizen, for being amongst the legions that eat depreciation so I can buy expensive sports cars for a discount. Carry on.

I can attest to the “thought” put into these cars. My 996 is what I would call “logical”. When I work on it, things might be hard to reach, or cramped, but at no point do ever thing “what a stupid decision to do “XYZ”. When I worked on my Mercedes, that was my thought about _everything_. It is clear that an engineer…

“Porsche Club members look at the car all over and not know it was not the real McCoy” Were those member, perhaps, blind?

I don’t think you understand how “wear” works. This car didn’t just see highway miles. Its not “just miles” every part of this car has been stressed to the max meaning you will have to replace it in near future. You cannot maintain the thread in the seat, which surely has been stress tested by every fatass for the…

You doubt it is that bad? I assure the FD is SO MUCH WORSE. This is JUST the vacuum hose routing.

As a parent, what this means in the real world is that I go back to being the chauffeur every two weeks when the FD shits out the Apex seal. Again. My Dad give me a ‘41 Chevy and an 84 Subaru. His thinking was that one would always be running. You would have to do similar here.