This car is Ford’s answer to the WRX. If you’re over the age of 20, I wouldn’t look at it.
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What’s wrong with a Cayman base? Or the far more fun Boxster.
I think a TDI would actually clean the air in china.
The ducktail is my favorite. It’s a $2k-$3k upgrade on most 911 models, though the 991.2 doesn’t have it any more because of their new rear intake design. On the 991 it was quite functional and less likely to get damaged or vandalized than the full aero cup kit with the rear winglets.
This would be a great track car. It’s natual end of life is the motor blows, or you put it into a wall in a blaze of track day glory. You have to have $20,000 in checking (or in AmEx credit line) ready for repairs on this beast. Even a brake job is going to cost you $5k. If something goes mechanically wrong you’re in…
This Daimler Unimog is way better. Seen in Grand Canyon.
This thing looks unsafe at any speed, particularly 85 MPH.
A guy I go to the track with has this. He’s not coming to the next event but I’ll see him in January. I’ll try to get excited about taking a ride with him.
It was when they were bankrupt. Extra, extra cheap out.
“GM cheaped out” seems to be a theme. My folks have some Chevy SUV that they got as a cash-for-clunkers trade-in on a broken Mercury Mountaineer (I have no idea how trading a fuel inefficient 5 passenger SUV for a fuel inefficient 7 passenger SUV qualified under the program execpt MURICA). It only has one power seat.…
Does the Caddy CTS-V ever have this problem? Or is the evacuation of air from that engine bay tremendously improved so that it is never a problem?
So replace this
Is the reliability problem just when you strap a blower on it? I’m trying to reconcile all of the Z06 performance problems on the stingray that auto journalists have been running into.
This is a great example of how the dealer franchise model protects the consumer, by protecting FCA through the indirection of intermediary agents who screw the consumer. This is why Tesla is the distribution model of the future.
It’s hard for me to un-see that $80k Lotus with $20k of work into it literally stopped on T5 at Thunderhill and burned to the ground 2 minutes later, all because an exhaust pipe touched the fiberglass. I don’t think I could ever buy one. But I’ll make it a point to go for a ride at the next event and bring a…
I’d want to see it on a dyno to check if it can still make 200whp.
I don’t even know what we’re arguing about any more, but it’s flatly absurd to buy a Targa GTS for $140k when a Boxster with a half dozen options exists for $65k. Also, you shouldn’t downplay my 1:46 at Laguna. It’s a respectable time even for guys that have been doing this for 10 years and are beyond the basics. If…
The current Exige, which is the same as the 10 year old Exige, couldn’t beat the 2 generations old Cayman. Why do you think a ~2008 Exige S is better than a 2015 2.7L Boxster?
No model years on them and no guarantee the sales closed. All it shows is the FBO market is 30% below the dealer market, which means you’re screwed. Are you really going to buy a 5 year used exotic sight unseen and fly somewhere to pick it up? Especially when this is a car that nearly every buyer would take to a track…