That’s the rumor! They’ll make as many new GT4 as they can sell

I’m pretty sure that guy got the idea from that time back in 97 when me and my buds made Dan drink a budweiser out of his shoe at Grogan’s Point Park. Definitely no one could have had that idea on their own, it’s far too creative 

Rumors are that McLaren were very interested but Ricciardo was not interested in them. Didn’t want to be on a customer team. Sainz was signed because Mclaren had already understood that they weren’t going to be able to sign Ric. So it wasn’t so much as the door closed for him at McLaren so much as they were just…

It’s Jalopnik, shoulda gone for it

Low $80k for a driver 997.1 GT3 or basically a perfect GT4 with 4-8k miles.... Hard choice! I’d have to go Mezger... but the GT4 is probably better in every way technically except for a lack of dry sump.

Oof, hard to say. It’s too freakin good to go too low... right? I’ve seen some good drivers with reasonable mileage sell in the $80s, and I’ve seen some not make reserve on BAT in the 80k range as well. I chalk the latter up to people not realizing which way the wind is blowing.

I really do think regulations might make the next 20 years the last call for new ICE cars, so really young people’s interest in expensive sports cars with manuals might be irrelevant. What matters is who can afford them for the next 20 years. I’m 37 and only want manual. I’m quite literally the demographic that they…

I’m 37 and I only want a manual, so... yes? I’ve been driving only manual since I was 16 and I figure I have at least 20 more years of knees and hips that work well enough to keep driving 3 pedals. All my car enthusiast peers are pretty much manual or bust people as well. It’s a niche... but so are sports cars as a…

This is an underrated complexity that colors the whole debate about sales demographics and data. Great point

This. This + “freeway pulls.” Sadly you’re right.

Exactly. Corvettes have been offering performance equal to cars costing twice as much for decades and decades. This is only a game changer in terms of the chassis dynamics, at least so far. Corvette has always failed to deliver good feel/feedback and interactivity. That could all change now with the C8. If that’s the…

Yes yes YES. How does this only have 9 likes?

You can’t keep selling to that same aging demographic forever. Chevy need to ask themselves if the average buyer for the last 20 years is the same as their target buyer for the next 20. Chevy has been saying it is not. If that’s true, their old data will only mislead them when it comes to building a car for anyone…

If Chevy have more customers that think the inability to fit two golf bags in the trunk is a deal killer, but no manual trans isn’t... Chevy have a sales demographic problem. Their marketing team should be in a full on panic to avoid becoming the next Harley Davidson.

Get it together man. Dropping food is on you, not the transmission. I eat french fries with a fork when I’m on a road trip. No steering wheel grease contamination ftw.

Rare photo of Boyd Coddington in a bmw

“Moral of the story: Understand your data 100%.”

Right? And I thought they partly are building the C8 to appeal to the generations of younger people who have not been buying Corvettes? If you base all future assumptions on your past data pool (which may only contain a small % of the customers you need to lure to the brand) then obviously you’re going to end up with…

Preuninger has said explicitly that developing a new manual trans solely for the 911R was cost prohibitive, so the entire endeavor was only going to happen if they brought it to future models as well. Thinking it was just an F U to speculators is a flight of fancy, but hey... it’s a good story and it had the same…

Zero reason to buy one new. Buy one that’s a few years old. Same car just costs less and has a few miles on it. The miles wouldn’t other me more than getting the same car for more money.