Would love to buy another STI but close to $30k is way overpriced even for a hatchback model.  $15-$20k range is where the sweet spot for these are priced to sell.

No one is pushing you to buy a modern car at all. If the idea of driving a modern car bothers you so much why not drive your 90's or older car for the rest of your life, plain and simple. 

And that E28 made you feel something at 70mph. Changing gears, feeling the tires wiggle in corners. I’d take that over a new M5 for everything other than commuting.

Makes sense, but the vast majority of people have never been on a liter bike or do much sporty with their car other than hit the gas hard.

They feel boring to drive, other then acceleration they don’t have much going for them. On my bike I can run it out to 12k rpm and above 3500 the whole feeling and sound of the bike changes, it goes from a nice commuter bike and really comes alive. I have a modified vw that always puts us in a good mood to drive, its…

Light makes right. Always has, always will.

You do realize that as you get older you are also going to get fatter and uglier right? Human beings were not meant to appear young and attractive forever.

This is a car enthusiast site, right? Has the author of this article actually driven a lightweight car without any aides past the limit?

My opinion is that modern cars are really, REALLY good....for people who don’t care about driving and consider a car an appliance. Which, to be fair, is the vast majority of the car buying public.

This seems like an inappropriate thing to write about for a number of reasons.

“Old cars suck, actually”. -Jalopnik, 2024

Considering the wheels are the only contact point between you and the road, you could probably stand to care a tad more about at least the tires. But you do you. 

It takes all kinds, man.

Well, makes sense. The C8 is sorta... not so great looking..., especially from the rear. The performance envelope is beyond the scope of any legal road, and well beyond that of 99% of purchasers. And, the C7 is just a friendlier vehicle all around and a lot more fun to drive. And looks really great.  Going mid-engine…

If it doesn’t come to a complete stop with other cars at other stop signs, I’d honk at the guy.

The other 70% should be ticketed.

The whole selling point of autonomous cars is that one day, hypothetically, they’ll be safer than humans because they won’t get tired or lazy or lax with the rules.  “No u-turn” signs might seem arbitrary sometimes, but there’s usually a reason they’re there.  Teslas ignoring those signs and then having to back into…

I would tack on that the C8 is such a departure from the “traditional” Corvette, a lot of the traditional customer base that isn’t interested in them. There’s gotta just be less demand for them secondhand in general. 

Also hurting the C8 is the fact that due to being mid-engined a lot of actual supercar buyers bought into the initial hype. They tend to only keep their cars for a year or two versus traditional Corvette buyers who will put them away for a decade plus. And a lot of those supercar buyers I’m sure realized that the C8…

The C8 is a decent performer and the higher performance models even more so and I respect that they punch well above their price. I’ve just never been able to get over the fact that they look like a Hot Wheels that was designed by a 12 year old.