YES to all of this. Seeing cars that could be sold for the road (even if only produced in very small numbers) was always part of the magic of Le Mans. How fucking cool would it be to see Corvettes battling Ford GT, 911, Vantages and whatever Ferrari for overall Le Mans victories while also being parked in the grass…

He should check the list of cars actually made in America by Americans and expand his purchasing circle a little bit hahaha

Yes, like a particular spectacularly bankrupt 90s airline...

yup. plenty of those kids in every wealthy burb. GT350R isn’t even that extravagant in some places. in the 90s my hs parking lot had more than a few 911, m3, 4 year old 7 series and s class hand-me-downs and occasionally something more exotic when parents were out of town and left keys in accessible places 

oh hai, we replaced your side mirror with a series of electrical devices that work in conjunction to offer marginally more utility than a mirror with a domed mirror sticker affixed to it and significantly more components to fail. noice

20 years? bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

You should have a seat in a model 3, it’s plenty nice in person. The design is pretty refreshing compared to all the overwrought interiors that the market is crowded with. I wouldn’t let the Corvette interior put you off, the point of a Corvette isn’t to be luxurious. A Cayman is much nicer but honestly how much can…

This isn’t the base Corvette, it’s the z51 package which is more like a 911 T. Base engine but the T package gets you an LSD, the sport suspension, decent tires and some silly cosmetic stuff that doesn’t matter. As far as I know, there is no ring time for that car unfortunately. The earlier 991.1 generation S did it…

Holy hell I would kill for that drive. I’ve driven Houston to DC more times than I care to remember, Dallas to a few places in FL and Houston to Denver and back a couple times. Those drives are 90% mind numbingly boring with little way to take detours and add spectacular scenery. Relative to that, every inch of road…

Pretty sweet Speedmaster Rory has on his wrist there 

Yeah fair point about Porsche. Homologation rules are very persnickety and I don’t have a grasp on how far a manufacturer could go with a series of bolt ons (like this thing seems to be) before it must be homologated separately. 

True. But we should nonetheless applaud car companies that still let their engineers have fun side projects like this.

The odds of that happening are about as good as a massive increase in spending to fix our crumbling infrastructure.

Fast and loud. This is excellent. Loud is self evident, but the problem with FAST is that it is not always self evident. A super tidy car looks slow on TV, especially with the idiotically tight camera work that TV producers seem to love. It’s like they’re intentionally trying to rob any sense of speed. A simple…

This. This is the sad truth. Racing doesnt make sense in any equation except for racing for the love of racing. Hell, around here even grassroots SCCA wheel-to-wheel is dying out as the boomer generation ages. It’s gotten really, really expensive even at the lowest levels. But I suppose that’s partly the cost of…

I was genuinely surprised he was so consistently behind his teammate this year. I thought he showed flashes of pretty good driving at Williams (when they had a car and not a garbage pail). Fully expected them to be neck and neck by the end of the season.

Maybe Toto should have voted in favor of all those cost capping measures rather than aligning with Ferrari and voting them down... 

I recall the same thing. I turned 16 in the mid 90s and probably read every car magazine available from 1989 to 2003. I also recall almost buying one in the late 90s, but the integra GSR was so much better in every way, despite being front drive. 

I’m willing to bet you can thank the trucking industry lobby for that absurdity. In your govt’s defense, they raise the rate on those trucks and those type of national business will just register their vehicles elsewhere. A freedom individual citizens don’t have the resources to undertake.

Lucky you. I could change gears on the old 1990s Ford f350 tow vehicles my dad had on his lot faster than the automated manual in the Smart cars I have driven. And the Fords had shifter throws of 1 foot and a clutch that required the entire range of motion of my leg to operate