I have no idea where that is. Why don’t you plug in a coastal city where people live. San Francisco, San Jose, Long Beach, etc.

Tell me where the trends come from. Just say what you think - it’s Detroit right?

So $16,500 for a crate engine from Chevy plus tax, plus $5,000 for this kit from Las Vegas (seems legit), plus a lot of elbow grease and months in the garage or 40-60 hours of shop labor for $6000-$9000 if you want the job done right.

If it’s 100% mental masturbation, then I guess so. Some people actually do stuff with cars IRL. It would be sad to plan this out for a few years and realize it was a bad idea when you started making some phone calls to get the job done.

Do you even VIR and Road Atlanta? The cold rain is what kills winter track days there.

People have all kinds of problems (I don’t have these problems). By any measure the traffic in LA or SF isn’t anywhere near on the level of NYC, Boston or DC. It’s very tame by comparison and pretty predictable in terms of when it will be busy, when it will clear up. There just isn’t enough people and the highways are…

You’re so busy being right you’re missing the point that California sets a trend for the automobiles that everyone buys, both in emissions requirements and style. They buy more expensive new cars and tend to spend a higher percentage of income on cars especially in SoCal.

WAT? It’s 66 degrees every single day 12 months a year.

The laws are pretty straightforward and don’t really affect you at all. You can still chip your car, you just can’t delete the cats. Air off of the Pacific starts in California and blows east over the rockies onto the plains. If CA pollutes, everyone down wind suffers.

11% of US autos are bought in California. It’s 2 million new cars a year - and not just a bunch of Subarus and utility vehicles for the New England weather - real sports cars. Tesla, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda and others keep their US headquarters here. We’ll see if Google and Apple get their act together and convince…

Everyone in Cali walks to work. Nobody has time for traffic.

Factory Ford racecars for $85k are a better deal and very easy to get, comparatively.

Who cares about the largest auto market in the world where you can drive sports cars 365 days a year?

Looks like they’re going for the front mid-ship engine layout, like the Mercedes AMG Coupe. I’m not a big fan of driving cars with a long hood.

This is an exceptionally bad idea, even by very unrealistic “balling on a budget” Jalopnik standards. You might mention that this is a complete and total non starter for the 33 million people in California, where a car like this would not pass smog, CARB or ever be legal to register. You can probably add New York to…

Heh ok a 6 year old beat to hell cup car with 60+ hours on the motor, so it basically needs a new Mezger engine now for only $135k plus that new motor. Sure it is better if you’re one of the top 5000 drivers on earth. This Cayman has a slightly different value proposition, mainly a production car motor that won’t…

That’s in Ireland. It’s 165,000 british pounds.

They are kind of “dad jeans”, but so is every full size luxury sedan. It’s not really cool to rock an A8 unless there’s an uber driver in the front seat.

Try driving a 2014+ PDK first before you smugly dismiss it.

No.