Right. Smart people factor in the fact that they don’t ever have to deal with oil changes - or going to the gas station. If you value your time, that’s worth a lot.

Ummm... maybe don’t look at luxury branded cars then.

Don’t think for a second that this situation isn’t deliberate on the part of the Saudis. They are not fighting shale oil so much as EVs, which are an end game for the value of their resource.

Annoying clickbait title is annoying.

Everyone says the new Porsche interiors are great. But in every review or in-person view I have seen of them, they have a ton of blank buttons. I think you can get a fully optioned (outrageously priced) car and still get blanks, just because they left extra room.

The car was just adding lightness.

That’s actually the easy part, and is probably long since done. The real challenge is safe navigation through snow and ice, especially in construction zones where the road borders have changed.

I have to say, this is one of the few of your “bargains” that I actually have to think twice about. This is a hell of a lot of car for the money, and the right one is not going to be *that* unreliable.

That’s with a car that has a tiny fraction of the development budget that has been spent on LMP1s since it was introduced. The form factor makes more sense. If the rules allowed horsepower parity and competition in LMP1, every team would be running DeltaWings. As it is, they are using flow-through designs that…

Absolutely. This thing was a clear scam from the beginning. The mileage is as real as the “always garaged” line.

Looks to me like a good start for a great track car.

Wait a second. The Delta Wing is failing only because the team doesn’t have funding and the form factor is forced to run in the experimental categories.

You did get robbed today. Came here wondering what you would post to yourself to celebrate.

Seriously. I don’t think people give enough mention to the fact that you really have to be an expert driver to extract the most out of a modern supercar. I run in the Advanced group at trackdays, and I still don’t think I would know what to do with that much power on track.

So you know, I wasn’t disagreeing with your overall point. But I think that if they wanted to generate a lot of horsepower with a cylinder count that sounds impressive to the fools who buy these cars, the LS is a good way to go.

Even better. With the battery removed, you get invisibility, smugness, and a whole lot of carrying capacity:

A LS motor is only about 30” long fully dressed, so it should be ~5’ long.

Pretty clearly, the Cayman is the modern NSX. It’s a six cylinder, mid engine, lightweight sports car still available with a manual transmission. But it has better brakes, modern suspension, and more horsepower.

You could just buy a McLaren 650S if you want that kind of car. And it would be better engineered than a hack job on the i8.

The biggest news here is that the big banks have loaned VW 20 billion, which means that governments, at the behest of the banks, will now prevent VW from failing.