FYI, you can buy a brand new Mitsubishi Mirage in Maryland for $9100. Safety is not what is driving cost increases. When technology like this is on all cars, the hardware becomes a commodity and is super cheap.

You are wrong. I will offer no evidence or insight to why, but you are definitely wrong.

The problem is that the EPA isn’t interested in testing your car to see if it is still compliant. They say that if you change emissions equipment, you are out of compliance regardless of actual emissions.

To be more precise, I believe it was the driver circuit for the injectors, which is an issue on older Bosch DMEs.

I bought a $1600 Porsche 944. It had rough paint and interior, but ran well, so I was fairly happy for a well-running car. Turns out the engine computer would work fine for about 45 minutes at a time, then would start overheating and leave me stranded. Took me a year and a dozen breakdowns to figure that one out...

It’s always been racist.

Don’t speak for me. You’re just an asshole.

I agree, the size of track certainly makes a difference. As for 918 being the benchmark, all 3 of the hypercars are very close in lap-times, but there are more 918s out there for running comparisons.

Isn’t risk of death the reason you shouldn’t tailgate in the first place?

That belt got abused pretty bad when the pulley gave up. If you don’t replace the belt, I don’t think you learned your lesson from this. Don’t let cheap parts leave you stranded.

Leave it to Aston Martin to rip off the annoying aspects of a Porsche.

‘P’erformance

‘D’ual motor

That’s good, because it does!

German automakers have been known for that for decades. The joke was, you walk into the BMW or Mercedes dealership and say you want to buy one. The salesperson asks, would you like that in small, medium, or large?

High output DC motors have brushes, which require replacement and would be too much maintenance. The only alternative to brushes is to convert power to AC somewhere along the transmission path.

Yes. I want a coupe, not a convertible with a helmet. A coupe top is lighter, stronger, doesn’t leak, and is cheaper than a convertible hard-top. The hard-top also looks silly, with a coupe the styling could be preserved.

A lot of transmissions have 4th or 5th gear as direct drive, so it kind of makes sense that the rear-end wouldn’t have to be much different than normal.

My worry is that the hardtop is just a skin and the roll cage is the only think actually structural. I think if they sold it as a hardtop they would have to pass rollover tests.

So if they completely replaced the platform and restyled the body....??? I’m guessing it would look different.