The only thing stopping me from buying a Mazda 3 is the four-pot. After driving an E46 for so long, I’d rather stick to six cylinders or buy an EV.

I’m hoping that the rumored inline-6 will not be kept exclusively to Mazda’s CUV/SUV line and trickle down into the sedans.

Yes. Shmee recently finished a Clio V6 restoration project funnily enough.

RE: 1st gear - owning a convertible in Houston has always been a dubious enterprise, but shit’s getting hotter and hotter, most of my driving is stop-n-go highway miles, and at 30 I’m starting to value comfort over fun in my daily driver. I can’t remember the last time I dropped top in that thing.

That being said,…

I have been on my 1080 Ti for five years now. It absolutely slaughters Destiny 2, even at 1440p ultrawide. The number of (AAA) games that can drag me away from D2 are few and far between, and if I’m smart about which settings to drop I probably won’t miss out on much.

NVIDIA can kiss my ass with this pricing scheme.

Y’all shouldn’t even be on Oahu anyways tbh. Indigenous folks have been begging the tourists to stay away since the military fucked up the water table and the state/local govts have been prioritizing water supplies to tourists over the people who actually live there.

Counterpoint: the Boxster loses that beautiful flowing line from the roof to the rear. The Spyder humps rectify it somewhat, but the Cayman’s silhouette always makes me go back for a second look (which is why I chose it over the vert).

Plus, the older I get, the less tolerance I have for baking directly in the Houston…

Car 1: a GT4 RS - delete the buckets, swap the alcantara for leather. I’d prefer PTS British Racing Green, but that requires Weissach package and ironically I don’t want this to be a track monster. I just want to enjoy that perfected, flat-six screamer in as much comfort as possible.

Honorable mention: Classic 911…

There was a beautiful brown over beige 987.2 Cayman that I wanted but thought was ridiculously overpriced at $25k with close to 120k miles, and the owner wasn’t gonna budge on it.

He later put it up on Cars & Bids...where it sold for $25k. 🙃

I later bought a .2 with half the mileage for only $3k more, and I love it…

Something about the Boxster’s silhouette, top up or down, doesn’t do it for me (and why I ultimately settled on buying a Cayman).

Now this convertible? Striking on all accounts. I would buy it.

...even as a Porsche fan, this is such a stretch of an article.

I still have my first car, a 2004 325 Ci I’ve driven since 2006. I have put well beyond its value into that thing (including a new engine cuz I was penny-wise, pound-foolish re: maintenance). I barely use the convertible top anymore because SE Texas bakes and the driver side C-pillar keeps coming undone. By every…

What you learn after owning a convertible is that there is really a narrow window of weather were it’s actually enjoyable to have the top down, any other time it’s just a chore.

I pulled the trigger on a 987.2 PDK in December because of these rumors...and now I’m doubly glad I did, even in this market.

I plan to make that flat-six scream for as long as I can.

I think I might actually like this better than the Taycan Cross Turismo. Well done, Audi.

NGL, this is the first V8 in a hot minute that sounds heavenly. I think most V8s are too grumbly for my taste.

(Then again, I also think that V10s generally sound better than V12s so I might just one crazy motherfucker.)

This seems like a really dumb segmenting move when the Macan’s ICE days are already numbered.

Spend all that marketing and development money keeping the Cayman an ICE car alongside the 911 instead.

My wife, my brother and I saw Shang-Chi last night at a drive-in movie theater.

Aside from having shitty radios and parking next to a couple asshats who run their engine for the entire film (thus not helping the shitty radios), I think it’ll be the perfect way to scratch my theater itch until I feel it’s reasonably…

I feel you on the 911. Granted, I think that most of the mainline 911s through the 964 generation look quite striking (though with their soaring prices I will never own one).

Happy N7 Day, everyone!

Oh shit, really? I grew up in that district! (And was super stoked when she knocked off Culberson two years ago). I was mad worried for her this year but I was happy to be wrong. The optimist in me wants to believe that TX-07, even with the Villages in it, is actually getting more progressive. The cynic in me just…