The problem is more powerful turbo engines, right? My car’s intercooler is located below the bumper and receives air there (so does the oil cooler,) while the grill feeds air to the radiator.

I think you mean under 3 seconds.

Oh the irony if Russia was the country to finally break the glass ceiling!

Anyone outside of the PNW, where I live btw, would still rightfully pick Luck.

I happened to just look up the Supra on Autotrader, and it’s interesting that there are many available under MSRP, or do you think they could all be bait and switch?

The hate GM cars. I grew up in a GM town, my dad worked for them and got screwed on his pension, and I’ve never bought one myself. Plus, I won’t buy a sports car without a manual...but I do think this may be the sports car Messiah. Bringing a mid-engine V8 with a DCT to the masses is a big, big deal.

BMW is the new Oprah.

Seriously?  I mean, sometimes I just go sit in my car in my own driveway.  Are you also someone that’s annoyed by driving a stick in traffic?

I’d rather spend a half hour in the car that I love vs. 10 minutes in a shitty fast food restaurant.

I love cars. I love looking at them. I love driving in them. I love talking about them. I love working on them. I love riding on a ferry in them. I love watching movies in them. I love eating in them. I love f’ing in them.

I can’t speak for the 718 that I haven’t driven, but I think the 987 and 981 were fantastic on both track and street. You can’t beat the feeling of spinning like a top, and with the 911, you have a host of different and equally fun reactions with that weight being out back, but both are more fun to me than an engine…

Really? My last three cars have been a rear-engine, a mid-engine and now a front engine. Rear engine has character, mid engine is a scalpel, and front engine is the least appealing.  The only reason I’m currently driving a front engine car is because I need usable backseats, which the Supra doesn’t have.

That’s always been the case with Corvette. What’s new is that it will now have mid-engine feel, which changes the ballgame. 

That’s a weird way to compare the two, considering an option-less Corvette will still smoke a Supra. 

Mid-engine. Regardless of performance, there’s an aura of “better” around a mid-engine sports car layout.

I feel like this post could have been from a dozen years ago in referencing the Z4 coupe, which didn’t exactly sell like hot cakes. The new Z4 coupe, errr Supra, finds itself in an even harder battle without a manual, because purists are still gonna pick a Porsche with a stick, and those prioritizing speed are going…

2002 Turbo, 3.0 CSL, M1 and a 1M as the daily.

Yeah, I live in the city with no garage and a slanted, narrow driveway. Even just getting the calipers off my car during a brake job was scary. lol

Yep, just like digital watches keep better time than mechanical, digital audio recordings are better than analog, and keytars sound better than guitars. I prefer a little “character.”

I grew up in Indiana and didn’t have much issue, although I did get a ticket on the highway from an all black Camaro that tricked me.