Had a ‘99 boxster....

Thank you.

Can we just call this for what it is: Travel for leisure is conspicuous consumption. It is not environmentally friendly. Period. Full stop.

And what would you spend your money on when your income is $500k-$1 million per day, every day, in perpetuity?

I’ve owned a 2001 M5 and driven the e39 various models a good bit - 528, 530, and 540 in manual transmission.

Sports car purchase for a life altering diagnosis means you gotta get something crazy....

I wanted one of these badly when I was making $35k a year and couldn’t afford it. I wound up buying a 2006 Civic SI in February 2006 instead - a technically superior car and yet...

Love the concept, even kinda like the shade-tree mechanic execution, but that price is crazy.

I forget the details but there was a story of a writer who picked up an air-cooled 911 on behalf of a customer - I believe driving from Texas to CA -and who “topped off” at a gas station on the route to make sure he had plenty of fuel for the next leg. Wound up he was topping off with diesel coming out of a gas pump…

I’m a big fan of honda - and Mazda for that matter. I owned a 2006 Civic SI until 2012 and about 120k miles. They do offer some excellent value models; their top-tier hatchbacks don’t appear to fall in that realm and so I objected to Kristen’s words.

“We already know Honda Civics tend to give you a lot of car for not very much money.”

Every once in awhile NpOCP hits it out of the park with something not worth the money and yet totally worth it for the memories and ridiculousness and yet reasonable functionality.

From a performance standpoint, this is Porsche NOT limiting the platform to the slower transmission.

I don’t really accept that as an excuse. Building to the test is conceptually fine but this is a fairly standard real world example. Those results SUCK and yet other models of the same era (i.e. volvo) were building far safer vehicles.

I gotta hand it to Mazda..... growing up in the 80s, 90s, and early aughts my favorite engine makers were BMW, Porsche, and Honda.

Had 2 kids, had a Subaru Outback, good choice. Sliding door is convenient but not necessary. Enjoyed driving it onto the beach and watching folks with lifted trucks and jeeps expecting be to get stuck....only to actually be able to handle it far better than them with 2000 less pounds dragging me into soft sand and a…

As the owner of a 2018 honda odyssey and someone who has ridden in dodge caravans.....that video terrifies the crap out of me. How is that in a 6 year old vehicle? That looks like what I’d expect in a 50s cadillac. 

If this is a true “off the showroom floor” test, then it’s faster than the new 911 carrera S and faster than a 991.1 porsche 911 gt3 in this test.

I was a bit too obtuse - wealth inequality rebalances through state intervention or war (civil or outside). Interestingly, we are also seeing philanthropic forces helping here too which is cultural in nature. Cultural rebalancing would be the most effective, long-term, as state re-balancing tends to be the most…

Hehehe, nice snark.