Most people still need a daily driver, unfortunately - or one far more capable than a Corvette (and I daily drove a C5 for a while). This gives you options. If you want AWD - Golf R or WRX, or upgrade to the BMW / Audi lines. RWD options on BMW too (or Stinger).

That’s a WRX. 

Ain’t no one but a dozen folks buying an SUV with a stick :(  Admit it - most of the folks buying a Kona N either wanted the nicest (expensivest) one, or ...  made a mistake. 

They’ve sounded like that since the beginning.  It’s a WRX.  Back then, if you wanted a real door, you bought a Legacy.  And if you wanted a REAL door, you bought ...  a BMW?  Audi? 

Do we have any details on the STI yet? 

I do wonder on this. I don’t disagree with the core point at all, but I wonder if we’re missing a point too. You’re right - I’m the FnF crowd (I was late in high school when that came out), and about to hit 40... and I know my next car will be my last new ICE purchase. I currently drive a M550, and it’s the best “car”…

I assume you meant the unvaccinated?  

I wonder if it’s a shit ton of idling...?  Even that seems massively excessive - unless he never, ever, turns it off.  

FINALLY. someone gets it. Colorado has had the positive traction laws for almost 10 years now. Yeah, I buy AWD (and finally moved to where AWD + snow is pretty much a requirement) - because I ain’t messing around with chains.

All depends on where you are :-/  Here, winter can be January-March, or September-May.  Tends to lean more towards the latter - but you’re gonna have a LOT of 80 degree days just before 1+ ft of snow...  so it tends to kill snow tires.  They made those new “almost-snow” all-seasons for people that live in places like…

You own 24 4x4 Jeeps, and you picked a 1960's RWD Valiant as a winter car.  Only you David, only you. 

Eh. I averaged 22mpg. Coming from, in the past, a ZL1 camaro (LOL 16 up or down hill), Grand Wagoneer (11 mpg, no matter WHAT you did), a Firebird formula track prepped (uh... I don’t remember), and a modded GTI (3o on the highway. 15 ... not). It’s... yeah. Not THAT bad. But not amazing. I do 21 in an M550 now.

I’d have gone for the Genesis (I still want one with the turbo 4 and the manual), but RWD.  Where I live, the AWD is a requirement :(  And now, finding them with the 4 and a stick is, well, impossible.  Totally impossible.  

With the headlights off at night. 

There was a window in the mid 2010's where CPO G37s were the bargain daily driver.  You could easily pick up a low-mileage, excellent condition one for mid-low 20's, and drive the wheels off of it (since maintenance on them is pretty darned cheap).  By the latter portion of the 10's though, they were getting pretty…

Well...  I guess it IS called a “Sawzall,” not a “sawzmostshit...”  This is fixable...  

Ditto. I’m REALLY hoping that one of the BEV will be at the right price - so I can get a BEV daily, and then debate swapping the ZL1 for one last ICE sports car. But if not... then the ZL1 will be the last sports car (not a bad one!), and the daily will be the last ICE (and it’ll still be fun!).

I can understand that.  Where I live, AWD and snow tires (or snow-adjacent) are a requirement...  so the Supra is a 3-month toy (June/July/August).  I’d consider it for the daily otherwise, but...  yeah.  Don’t get me wrong - I’d rather it had a stick, but I’d buy it with the ZF8 (because whatever they sacrificed to…

I don’t even mind the lack of manual. I’ve strongly considered it - especially as a gift to myself as I wrapped up an executive masters program... But, at the end of the day, I realized I’m buying ONE last ICE car new(ish)... and it’ll be a final daily, unless the right BEVs are in my price point when that time comes…

Hell, till they 1, put a yoke in it, and 2, set the price to absurdium levels, I wanted a Tesla roadster.  I’m all for the light EV with limited range for a toy - I’ll find a way to charge dammit!  And the stick.  Someone makes one with a stick and I’ll buy it, dammit.  Screw the price.