Massively underestimated price. Seats are a critical safety component, as they are tasked with holding you in the car in the event of an accident. They have to be able to withstand loads of force. Now, if he were buying stock versa seats, brand new from Nissan, sure, maybe 1000-1200 for the seats. These are “Nismo”…

$2000 for a japan only set of seats? Getting the Ford specced recaros for my fiesta ST would cost $3000 for the seats alone. Good luck getting those seats shipped to the US for $2k. Your forgetting that seats nowadays have airbags and a surprising amount of wiring in them.

Brand loyalty cannot be understated. Every car I’ve owned has been a FoMoCo pile. Granted, my Fiesta ST is great, but I’ll be looking at other showrooms since Ford is killing the cars that I’m interested in and their dealerships are literally the worst.

Excellent counter point. You’ve given me a lot to consider.

TRD Pro MSRP $50k, because otherwise you have to deal with our retarded entune infotainment system.

If that’s the “grill” it looks like Aston Martin is borrowing design cues from Mazda. Wasn’t expecting a company that produces cars that regularly cost 6 figures to steal a play out of Hyundai’s book.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races.

Honestly, like trade 10 hp for an equivalent or slightly greater amount of torque... they should just put the last gen Fiesta ST engine in it... maybe with a slightly larger turbo.

Obviously so we could build another one and so Mexico would pay for it....

I mean, it certainly used to be a higher priority for them.

I get that portion. Just considering pretty much all their competition have been building sports oriented or straight up sports cars, I just don’t understand the hype. Toyota isn’t reviving the Supra, it’s probably already on life support and will be canceled on 4-6 years when sales taper off. It is at best, a…

One doesn’t not go through all of the effort of performing a swap and then dumping it before it’s even completed unless they’ve hit a brick wall on something and are now trying to recoup lost money and time. This is an easy CP. S/he put a lot of time, money, and effort into this car and now that it’s “just waiting on…

What would it take for a Supra to get the manual gearbox it deserves?

Half a second is massive around any track. God even the Nurburgring fan boys would be ecstatic over a half second.

IE different clutch packs. Valving, casing, etc is all the same. The only other difference is software.

Mazda already has a small sports car, I’d love to buy one from them... provided my knees weren’t in constant and excruciating contact with the dashboard the entire time I forced myself to sit in it. That coupled with modern safety standards means that IF an RX-7 revive were in the pipes, it’d likely land at around…

I mean it’s a pretty big car. It has a somewhat usable back seat, and a relatively long wheel base. It’s also super affordable, msrp around 25k gets you a 300+ HP rwd coupe with a decent chassis underneath it.

That’s actually an insane amount of weight in a subcompact

And this people, is what we call “functionally retarded”.

Ecoboost mustang with performance pack tips the scales at 3500 lbs. I’m sure Mazda could shave a few hundred pounds out of that. For reference the previous gen Mazda 2 and Ford Fiesta were the same chassis, but the 2 was about 150lbs lighter iirc.