If they let you enter the race, they need to let you finish the race.

When I was in high school and college, I was all about lightweight, high-revving cars that made you work for your power but let you throw them around a tight road. When the RX-8 came out, it seemed like the ultimate car. No torque, decent but not overwhelming horsepower, and a ridiculous redline? Yes, please!

I stopped caring about spec sheets and lap times; worrying if I had the fastest car in a segment based on a professional driver on whatever track. Instead I have a list of cars I’m interested in, go test drive all of them, decide my favorite, and then buy a Subaru anyway.

This looks oddly like how Trump sold himself to the US during his presidential campaign...

Yeah, but did they combine extreme precision with the robustness of volume production where every micrometer counts??    Audi did.

We’ll have 15 production bays there which means that as it takes us about one week to build a car we could build about 750 cars a year there. But wait we’re only allowed to build 325 cars a year as an approved NHTSA low volume manufacturer. Does that mean in let’s say three years we’ll have fully crash tested…

You spin me right ‘round

Of all the brands to have an SUV I think Bentley makes a ton of sense.  To me they are about grand touring and that to me is covering a shit ton of miles at pace in comfort.  This thing checks those boxes easily.  

Please do, you know, for science.

Show me on the toy car where the Porsche touched you....

They’re both tough. Meeting heater core warmup targets when you’ve got a new, more efficient engine that doesn’t dump as much heat into the coolant at idle is tough. So is preventing charge air coolers and active grille shutters from freezing, ensuring smooth starts in the cold, getting the CAT up to temp, warming up…

It’s a straight 6.

Smuggy McHipsterface.

Spot on. If Fox translates stuff between quotes; it should be quoted. This was nothing like Jos said.

(disclaimer: I’m Dutch and I like it if Dutchies win races)

This.

counterpoint: no top-tier level driver got there by being a genuinely nice guy all the time.

Exactly, in your twenties you drive a two seater sportscar.

Patrick George nailed it. Too old for a hot hatch? Fuck off. I have a GTI and I’m going to be 40 in less than 2 months. You’re old at 30? Fuck off. I say that lovingly, of course, but please do fuck off. Get a Golf R and be happy. It’ll take your dogs and your skis all the way up to wherever people do the skiing, and…