But there are “mid engined” RWD cars with the transmission in front of the engine—see Lamborghini Countach.

Audi 119?

Golf clap back?

Meet with the GRU, you’ve got to meet with the FSB. Fair and balanced.

It looks like pushrod operated shocks?

There are a couple of things that are interesting about the photo—first, sliding pillar calipers on the rear, which is a departure from Tesla practice to date. Probably necessary for cost savings. Will be interesting to see if performance models have different brakes.

Yeah, but those tires on that car aren’t going to last 30k miles. More like 10.

9 months, but how many miles?

I believe that, since all of Dave Matthews songs fucking sucked.

I mean, the obvious answer is a 3.6L 911 Turbo swap.

For this kind of scratch, I hope it comes with recently re-vulcanized tires and a fresh tank of petroleum distillates.

I’m not sure where you’re looking, but a quick Cars.com search shows the cheapest Mark VII at 28 and change, and that’s a 2015 with nearly 40k miles.

I will say that the lingering effects of racing sponsorship are strong and unpredictable. Things I have a bizarrely favorable impression of, despite knowing little or nothing about them:

If you wander into the wrong neighborhood, you might get Silk Cut.

I think you’re probably right. What terrifies me is the idea that you might be wrong.

The other advantage the Type R has is that it’s so much slower that you have more time behind the wheel to savor it.

I agree completely. As long as it’s the correct 2 wheels.

True. Look at the Golf R and ask, “how many turbos does that thing have?” I mean, it’s got four exhaust pipes, so probably it has at least one...

Mark VI Rs had undefeatable traction control (though that could be fixed with a quick tweak to the software).

I’m not sure any of these are accurate.