Correction: This is a picture of a car that somebody who works at (or for a firm hired by) Mitsubishi drew.

I’m going to guess that you’re either younger than about 30 or older than 50?

No, but I did buy one of those huge display boxes of baseball cards for $50 once. It wasn’t as awesome as I imagined it would be when I was 12 :(

Really, the 240 will probably “feel” faster because of the turbo, but the BRZ will be actually faster. I wanted a “modern” 240sx, drove the Genesis when it came out and didn’t really like it since it felt exactly like a KA s14 off the showroom floor. The BRZ really felt like an s14 240sx + a decade of improvements…

From taxpayers? Nothing.

No, it’s way faster than a stock 240sx. It only really felt a touch slower than a stock SR-swapped 240. A stock redtop is only about 200hp, and the s13 isn’t much lighter than a BRZ. The only advantage is some more torque and the turbo power-delivery, so you feel it more. The BRZ’s handling is light-years ahead…

After a couple years of owning one...never? Not while actually driving it anyways.

They are very handy because you can fit one full grocery bag in each seat and the bolsters will keep all your cantaloupes from falling out and rolling about the cabin on your way home.

Had my BRZ for two years and even took it to some autox/drift events without changing tires....they still had the little knobby things on the sides and plenty of tread when I sold it.

Just perused the linked Aerostar article. Holy shit, that “concept” went 290mph!? Somebody needs to print this out and mail it off to Infiniti with a sticky note saying “this is how you do a concept car”.

Taxpayer expense? How much extra would it cost to write a ticket for the spot right next to the handicapped spot?

Nah, I don’t think there is any brisket worth risking jail-time for in Florida.

Not to mention a litigation lawyer on speed dial if he is not one himself.

After a week of driving rental cars in Japan, I was still flipping on the windshield wipers every time I tried to make a right.

That's how it goes. The only really good shops I know of were started by people who already had a lot of money, college business majors, and the lead tech at the shop started by the guy who already had a lot of money. The enduring enthusiast-started shops are few and far between.

I do too, but not the price tag. It doesn’t really seem $20k better than the Volt. Of course, I’ve never actually seen one either.

Ahhhh, those are some of the worst ones. I've seen a few cycles of that for local places. They usually start out well enough and do a few cars really well, but then either they start to get too flooded with business, they get lazy, or the shit-side of the people that run them starts to manifest. The life-cycle seems…

"SR20 swap at a local shop", red flags all over the place there. There's only a small group of people I'll deal with locally since most of these places are a shitshow and out of business after a year. The ones that do good work are quite expensive too. Better to just study-up, make friends with somebody who knows what…

Yeah, he admits it’s from Macy’s

That's exactly how I think about things. When my friends suggest going out to a nice Italian place, I think in my head "wow, that's going to be expensive both ways...can I afford it?"