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$4k/yr in maintenance.

Dont’ wait on it. Do yourself a favor and buy a nice BRZ / GT86 with light upgrades. Budget for a turbo / supercharger unit and build it up. You’ll still spend much less than buying a base model Supra (when it comes out) and you’ll have a perfect purist car (the ToyoBaru twins only lack in power). 

The King of “using old popular vehicle names to create a shittier modern version.”

Sooo, good enough to hunt Porsches, but also as expensive as one so not that impressive?

I’ve figured it out: Toyota is going to only offer dazzle camo as the paintjob for the Supra. They’ve been hiding it in plain sight. No solid colors, ever. 

A car that isn’t in a crash costs nothing to repair.

Counterpoint... Ford in the mid-90s.

Neutral: Mid 90s center stacks that only had the basics.

I’m all for reading manuals to get familiar with all the features, but this seems like a basic enough function that ought to have had a more intuitive design. Would it have been too much to ask during the design phase that the release mechanism be placed on the door instead? I suppose the lever isn’t hidden per se,

It was definitely this man’s unlocky day.

To be fair, Nascar emails are a bitch to read.

Why did I hand the position back? It’s a track day, not a race. I have to lift and the other guy didn’t, I don’t want to ruin his lap and fun. I felt bad when I cut someone off into turn five only to lift a little later and gave him a point by too. I’m just having fun, not out there to ruin anyone else’s.

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Hey everyone! I’m the lucky driver being overtaken by the S2K! I got one of the first cars from McLaren and didn’t waste time putting some miles on it. Before I had to leave the US I put 1600 miles on the car road tripping it from Monterey to LA and back and to SF and back to Monterey. Then I did the double track day

Years ago, while out motorcycle riding, a “friend” pulled something similar to me. Riding side by side on our bikes at about 60 mph, he reaches over and hits the kill switch on my handlebar. This stopped the engine’s ignition resulting in turning the entire driveline into a mechanical brake and almost threw me over

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The best Predator sequel wasn’t even in theatres:

It’s Harbor Freight. The whole rig is sub-optimal, but buying something from HF that we want to try for the first time, only need once, etc. is a compromise many of us have made. 

What is the airspeed of an unladen Model S? 

Additional footage found of the moment before the jump

Tesla Model S-endIt!