WHY CAN’T I FEEL ANYTHING?!

Also having the massive 305’s up front are great for a metric fuck ton of grip, but do a quadruple homicide to the steering feel. Wide tires kill steering feed back.

Somehow, Mazda got electric power steering right more than ten years ago with the RX-8. Yet, nobody seems to have caught on (and in fact the ND might be a step backwards in that department). The RX-8 had one of the best steering systems I’ve ever driven. Not quite as good as the Elise though, which is utterly…

Yep. How many complained about the S2000’s or RX-8’s steering?

I will also say that electric power steering is not necessarily terrible to use, and manual steering is not necessarily amazing. My old ‘73 Baja is completely unassisted and it’s still light and far from what you would call bristling with information. Moreover, it has some slop to it, too.

It’s pretty much the opposite of road trip season. It’s cold...

>If you are saying a Spyder is more visceral than a 997 GT3, then I’m not sure what to say.

I’ve driven a 996.2, 997.1 and 997.2 GT3. I sincerely doubt that the GT4 is a world beyond the 997.2 GT3 in terms of feeling. Also note that I did not buy a 997.2 GT3. I didn’t buy it for the same reason as a GT4 — too much grip for me to have fun in the real world without non-stop risk to my license.

Food for thought: The Cayman GT4 is obviously very good, but I think everyone has forgotten about its sibling. Yes, the GT4 is the crowd favorite, and it was developed by Andreas Preuninger and friends ... but having driven this around for a few weeks, I think this is the real star of Porsche’s lineup that everyone’s…

Calling it. Doug is going to get a used Nissan Leaf. A year of goofy Doug, with all sorts of electric car antics. Everything from running electric cords from power outlets in restaurants to... other goofy things.

Struts are cheap. The development cost of tuning them to perform nearly as well as their multi-link cars (the 911, which is struts up front) is not. The 60 years of motorsport experience plays into that as well. Lots of long-amortized R&D that is well into the billions of dollars. Drive both a 4C and a Cayman and…

I should’ve specified, but yes, it kind of goes without saying. No one cares enough about diesel emissions from trucks/lorries at this point in time to legislate them out of existence — the immediate economic impact of such a decision would be immense.

The loss of Hackenberg and Hatz is huge. Porsche will deal with it a bit better than Audi, as they have no shortage of brilliant minds in Weissach, but it’s still a huge hit.

Mercedes’ new glowing-star option? That’s so freaking gauche I hardly even see it in LA. But Jaguar could totally put LED eyes in their cat and get away with it. (You can have that idea for free, guys. Just keep them dim.)

Don’t get back in the– ugh. I’ve had chicks bail on me just for using their handbags to store cheese balls, what could possibly make this woman willingly climb into a car driven by somebody who just went Grand Theft Auto on somebody’s ass in real life?

I’m genuinely curious if Magnus was wearing his seatbelt. In every video I’ve seen him in so far, he NEVER wears it. I always buckle up, so not wearing a seatbelt is something I’d never do, but doubly so in an older car that isn’t anywhere near as good as taking a hit as something modern.

No. If they had significantly more money, they’d live in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Weston, or Lexington. They’d have an Audi SQ5 as a beater, with an Evoque, Macan Turbo or Model S as their “nice car” that they like to show off and be seen in.

Rich people with no taste, I assume.

Wow...what the hell is in the water in Needham, MA?

Spotted one of these in Novi, MI, a fairly well-to-do suburb of Detroit, a few weeks ago. I had so many questions, but the main one was: "Somebody actually bought one of these?!"