Good points. Alternative suggestion: Use the 2.0 WRX engine, detune to around 200-220hp (less than your requested 15%, but bear with me), but also have 200-220ft-lbs of torque instead of the ~150 it currently comes with, or the ~170 you’d probably get from the larger engine. Beefier components (brakes, halfshafts, cv…

The 260hp, 277lb-ft 2.4L turbo from the new Ascent sounds like it would be just peachy, if they could fit it in. It’d change the character of the car, to be sure, but you wouldn’t have to wind it out so much to get decent acceleration either.

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”

I agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. Yes, something needs to be done about access to firearms by people who would misuse them. But actions taken with indifference to consequences, unintended or otherwise, can often cause more harm than good.

You could argue that neither was this vehicle, in hindsight.

I will take action - any action - over fatalism.

“First autonomous car to kill someone is a Volvo.”

It’s always best to call ahead and make an appointment for the test drive for cars like the STI. Worked perfectly for me, even with the clear understanding that I wasn’t going to be buying the test-driven car (was a sedan, I wanted a hatchback).

Which is ironic, as Toyota owns a substantial stake in Fuji Heavy/Subaru Corp.

What does a 600hp Supra and a 1200hp Supra have in common?

Everything is available for a price. How fast do you want to go?

Being better than human and still hitting this woman are not mutually exclusive.

Do people really cross-shop a E-Class and a GLC? I would think they’d be looking at the GLE instead.

I have provided a test where it ran in the middle of the pack, and a video where it also finished in the middle of the pack. You have provided nothing but useless opinions and exaggerations.

Don’t be dense. I didn’t say it was the same damn car. Obviously it isn’t.

They definitely need to give it more time. The E-class they’re comparing it to has been around since, what, the mid 90s? That’s a lot of time for iterative improvement.

That’s the first and only time I’ve heard the Supras’ handling described as “razor sharp”. Based on the sentence that precedes it in the article, I question the author’s perspective of what ‘razor sharp’ is.

I’m curious as to your source for these ‘facts’, because I have a 1997 issue of Motor Trend that begs to differ.

Not sure where you live in NH, but if you’re ever down near Worcester, BT’s Smokehouse is pretty damn good. Even got props from Gordon Ramsay.

Probably the only exception is the to your no-SUV-rule is the Land Cruiser, which seems surprisingly popular among the old-money affluent, at least in New England.