“the 991 turbo sounds angry under full throttle” at which point you’re doing 135mph on the public highway...
Ideally you want a used 250cc Japanese dirt bike from craigslist or similar. Why? Cheap. Easy to repair. Low seat height. Lightweight. And tough. A first bike is one you can beat the crap out of, drop, take off road, fall off, etc and that would hurt so much on a nice new bike. Build your skills for a year then go…
Couter point: Keep the particulate filter, it makes the exhaust plumes harder to spot and attack?
grandpa? is that you?
Does BavarianAuto or IPD count?
It is about avoiding a Carbon Tax, which are politically impossible. If the CO2 pollution externality was accounted for (tax) then you wouldn’t need these stupid rebates and the market would sort this out on it’s own.
It is, that’s the way economic incentives work. Sometimes there isn’t a case to equally incentivize all parties when the resources (rebate dollars) are scarce. In this specific instance encouraging manufactures to build and price vehicles for high-income/low-volume individuals might not be the best use of the limited…