Yes. But also to help organizations like Renault and Mercedes internally justify sinking millions into a sport that is, on the surface, completely antithetical to the direction their road cars must take over the next 30 years.

What makes you think they need a GTR killer? The notion that a performance halo-car is necessary to lend a brand some kind of legitimacy is outdated. This fact kills me, but it’s true.

Actors be tiny

It’s the forever young Maserati 

Fitting they gave the final eternal Maserati an eternally unfinished paint job. It shall not grow old. 

This. This is a warp speed I know too well. Surprise November dusting at 6am while I’m 1 hour from home and 20 minutes from the track... On Direzza ZII Star Specs that were below the wear bars. Not a good morning.

It was only years later that the internet blossomed and I learned that the sensation had its own term of “death wobble.” Had we known it was a named thing, we probably would have been much, MUCH more careful.

I’m all for pedantry, but only if you read the entirety of the instructions for the assignment first:

I’ve tried the same thing, it’s really really reeeeeeeally hard to get the fine dexterity down to the point that it’s beneficial. I do it for fun on the street when I end up behind the wheel of an automatic just so I feel involved in the driving experience. But at autocross it’s tough to get to the point that it feels…

I feel like warp speed is best used as a subjective expression for the sensation you have in any given car at any given speed. Indicated 92 mph in a 4cyl Wrangler with plastic windows, questionable alignment and 4 unbalanced wheels on the Hardy Toll road in the late 90s was Warp 11. I was extremely uncomfortable at…

I respect your optimism, and it would be cool if you were right... But let’s look at the reality of the evidence before us. Toyota have to make 25,000 of these for homologation purposes... So they will not be some super extreme homologation special due to extreme costs and very limited markets for that type of car.…

Ours is a 2016... So I’m betting the engine’s are about 85% the same and within 20hp output

WRC is a whole other can of worms. I’m just talking about selling cars. WRC rules allow some insane things that have nothing whatsoever to do with any version of the street car. I wish the rally cars were as close to the road cars as they were back in the McRae days, or required homologation cars to be produced for…

OK, show me the actual STI version of the Toybaru... I’ll wait.

Haven’t driven one on bad surface streets. Feels fine on course, quite pliant and well-rounded without being soft feeling. Modern suspensions are pretty amazing at doing everything well. You can always throw nice adjustable shocks on it (might already have them?). Not even my wife’s Outback is happy on our atrocious DC…

Who cares what a vintage car runs on. By driving one, you’re ostensibly recycling. How much worse for the world is getting a new, slightly more efficient car every 4 years? A lot.

No. Drivers must keep their vehicle inside the curbs. Full stop.

Or they could just, you know, make an STI version of the Toybaru since that’s already two doors and is 87% of the way there.

Depends on the Subaru. Our Outback has a squirrel who smokes cigarettes in lieu of an engine

Bingo. The Supra that everyone worships didn’t sell that well at all, and wasn’t the standout driver’s car pick compared to what else was in the relative price range back then (RX7, 300Z, 3000GT, M3, Corvette, 911).