I think you'll love the BRZ. Heck, even though it's the antithesis of my GT-R, I'd love to own one of each. Variety is the spice of life, after all...

I quite enjoy mine, but I track it quite a bit: it really does take racetrack pace - where you're really fighting for every ounce of grip - to come alive. Driving it out of the "boring" envelope on public roads is both antisocial and suicidal (as Travis pointed out). That said, I agree that Porsches are generally…

Depends on what you're doing. Although rally cars are definitely "proper racecars" you don't see them with wheel-mounted shift paddles, because rally driving frequently demands a lot of lock, and a paddle in a fixed position is much easier to keep track of.

It sounds infinitely better once you replace the mid-pipe :).

This is only one data point, but I own a 2012 GT-R, and I haven't exactly been gentle with it (plenty of track time). It's coming up on its two year anniversary now and I've had exactly zero problems with it. The first few model years of the GT-R tended to have transmission problems when hooned, but they've beefed…

I would have been more impressed if this "street legal" GTR hadn't arrived on a trailer.

It was nice of Pirelli to have an early 4th of July celebration!

Wah! Knowing that makes me extra sad. We should have an official wake at Harris Hill. I really liked that car.

Bummer! The 944 is such a nice car for this kind of racing. I drove Bo Rivers' 944 in a CHUMP race last year and loved it (until the rear wheel bearing blew - definitely a weak point on these cars). I look forward to seeing your new baby testing at HHR!

I'm no expert on true phobias, so this may be moot, but I wonder how you would respond to taking a performance driving course at a track - away from traffic, intersections, and pedestrians - focusing simply on improving your confidence in your ability to control a car. Now, even if you have 100% confidence in your own…

It was pretty clear he was in over his head about, oh, 5 seconds into the video.

Yeah. It's kinda silly. I timed the laps in the video out of curiosity, and if the playback speed is accurate (it looks like it), the fact is that neither of these guys are exactly setting the world on fire. They both had to deal with bit of lap traffic, but were running right around 1:30 laps. The fastest cars in the…

A lot of folks on the thread have been disparaging the Aventador driver's skills, but here a few things to consider:

Actually the Lambo driver was also an instructor, although I'm sure he was taking it a bit easy. He had only recently taken delivery of the car (it still had that "new supercar smell"), and I don't think it was even fully broken in.

Slow in, slow out is right about the track. I was at this event in a Nissan GTR. It definitely felt like a lot of car at several places around the track (particularly the Rattlesnake, which is the really tight right-left-right-left section). My tires were not particularly happy with me.

I'll be there in the Turn 15 grandstands. Looking forward to someone trying something brave and/or stupid in the 12-15 complex.

OK. Didn't read carefully. Shame on me.

Parking fail. Quite a few commenters seem to be defending this guy (perhaps because they do the same thing?), but I'm sorry. If you have enough money to affort an Aventador, you have enough money to afford an inexpensive daily driver you can take the the strip mall and park normally. No car, no matter how expensive,…