:( maybe it’s time to look into alternative careers? You can’t get this time back, no matter how much money is in the bank. 

4.75 hours of sleep x5 days a week? How are you alive? Cocaine?

By the math, your 981 was by far cheaper to own than my 996 during any 2y approx 20k mile stretch. lol I’m dumb to keep holding on to it

It’s pretty crazy. Guy I know just picked up 2017 718 Cayman S with 2k miles for barely $60k. Certified pre owned, awesome color, the good sport suspension, mechanical diff, 3 pedals. Totally bananas.

Haha yep. People are acting like Tesla invented cutting corners. In many ways they are exactly the same as nearly every car company that came before them... I guess it just goes to show you how much people dislike Elon Musk.

I mean... if you’re going to go that route and not talk about the actual underlying tech... then Sure. Regulations could make anything unusable. The future of ICE regulation is far from stable at this moment. Same with electric cars. Hell, some idiot(s) could get elected and outlaw electric cars. Sounds crazy? So did…

Ha! YES. This might be the only true answer.

“The Tesla is an iPhone you drive; a gadget that doesn’t evoke emotion, just wows you with a shiny but inoffensive design and a strong spec sheet”

I’m not even sure what a “true Lotus” would be in this form. It’s not as heavy as some hybrid supercars even though it has a butt-ton of batteries on board, so maybe 3700lbs is a featherweight 2000hp electric supercar?

Corporation cuts corners to increase volume and make more money in the near term? Guys this is CRAZY, so glad you’re reporting on this. This has to be like, the first time ever that this has happened right? BIG NEWS. YUGE NEWS. So glad it’s getting coverage.

“I’m sorry we’re not interested in this story. However please do get back to us if Elon Musk becomes involved in any way.” - The entire gawker family of websites and the people who comment here

I mean... welcome to the the rest of forever? Anytime you rely heavily on tech to create the value prop of a product, you introduce moore’s law into the picture and all bets are off. At least ICE tech has more or less stabilized and you’re not going to have a piece of antiquated ICE tech in 10 years. The problem you’ve…

He’s trying to be creative with his writing? 

Exactly. There is a reason 0% of makers of front-mid-engined cars call them mid-engined. It’s not because they’re technically wrong, they just understand what terms are accepted to mean and they don’t feel like they need to pretend to be smarter than everyone else by using it technically correctly. 

Takes a pedant to know a pedant, and I’m certainly a pedant... just of another sort.

This was the thought at the beginning of the hybrid era, lets see how thats turned out...

Fair point. Max failing to overtake Leclerc at Silverstone was some of the best racing I’ve seen this year. Same with Lewis on Bottas. 

Different race/fueling strategies could lead to larger speed deltas between cars on track, so it could quite literally help with overtaking.

Always a few pedants pointing this is out on every mid-engined vette post...

Counterpoint, maybe the point of ICE sports cars will shift away from numbers (which are stupid) and back to driver involvement. They’ll never beat the electrics on paper, but they can be a hell of a lot more fun, involving, and better sounding. I think ICE sports cars should play to their strengths and not try and…