Putting salaried workers out to do potentially dangerous jobs that they are not trained to do seems like a way to make sure those salaried workers brush up their CVs and hit up linkedin, its not as if labor market isn’t super tight at the moment...

Show me a turbocharged RWD performance vehicle that comes within 400 lbs of the BRZ. There’s a reason one doesn’t exist. A BMW M2 weighs 3600+ lbs.

Unfortunately with modern reliability and safety standards, this car with forced induction would weigh 500 lbs more and cost $45k. At that price you’ve gotta compete with a load of capable options, where as the current positioning leaves the miata as basically the only competitor.

But there are already a few small turbocharged performance cars out there which don’t have big weight penalties compared to the current BRZ. The Civic Si coupe is a 2+2 with very similar curb weights to the BRZ despite a turbo, the Fiat 124 is ~2450lbs with a turbo (100lb heavier than a ND Miata but is also a bigger…

The 2000 s2000 would be ~$48k today when adjusted for inflation. $27k for this seems like a bargain in comparison.

David Tracy can finally own a mid-engined sports car in a few years time! Legendary Maserati depreciation and reliability will make sure of that. 

Weren’t these things notorious for having super cramped engine bays? Maybe actually plugging injectors would involve removing too much and cost too much for a mechanic? 

Sounds like a great buy at 40k in 3 years time. 

I think the best way for Gordon to build a entry level T.50 might actually be to work with McLaren. They clearly have the prowess to build light carbon tubs at reasonable scale and cost. Put a free-reving NA engine there, strip out the internals and there’s your “affordable” T.50 derivative.

I would like to be smoking what you are if you think a 2 million pound supercar limited to 100 road cars will be driven anywhere. 

I can’t help but think he has given the British sports car a thoroughly American make-over with those grilles and wheels.

If Covid-19 has a silver lining, it’s that businesses and people are starting to realize that, much of the time, they don’t *have* to commute to a physical place to keep on functioning.

Agreed, the problem with urban congestion isn’t that there are too many cars *period*, it’s that there are too many cars concentrated in a particular time and area. The best way to counteract that is to substantially remove the need to concentrate traffic at particular times & areas, if that means cities decline in…

In this aspect, COVID-19 is a hidden blessing. It’s made many businesses realise that remote work is very viable even with infrastructure that’s wasn’t prepared for it. Far more cost-efficient and less politically contentious to roll-out improved data connectivity for a country than upgrade its mass transport.

This^^^

By that logic, LeMons teams could justify digging up Judd V10s and Gibson V8s from the 2000s just because they are well past their usable life for Le Mans teams.

Not familiar with LeMons rules at all, but the article implies that this car has turbos straight from an LMP2 race car. That cannot possibly comply with even the loosest interpretation of the LeMons budget, right? .

Let’s be honest to ourselves, over the past couple of months the smart ones have already moved on with a webcam and multiple streaming accounts. 

Vr38dett Micra, preferably FWD so it either breaks your arm or the steering axle on acceleration. 

Now I want to see the MC20 get a Hellcat V8 shoved into the chassis. It makes big power, is reliable, cheap as chips (relatively speaking) and truly leverages FCA's scale, what's not to love?