The main trick with the switch gear though is that Porsche is only Porsche and only makes Porsches.  It would make sense that all of their stuff is “nice” because their whole brand is “nice”.  Not that I don’t get your point, but it’s a little bit apples to oranges in that regard.  Chevy could make dedicated stuff for…

You can daily pretty much anything if you are committed enough.  I daily drove a 71 Vette in high school (15ish years ago), a 67 Dart with manual everything when I got my first job, and now an 04 Viper.  I’ve never cared about not having cruise control or power options or fancy tech, I just enjoy the ride.  Does that…

Was basically going to say the same thing.  I did daily my Viper for years and still would if my wife’s back would put up with it.  Now that I’m married I have a weather car to drive when it’s rainy and crappy out, but I drove the Viper in the rain plenty and ran every errand I could in it.  The irony is that it’s my…

I really don’t get the hate for chrome around here.  It’s a freaking finish.  It’s no different than hating a specific color of paint.  If anything chrome is actually a pretty nice finish because of the corrosion protection it offers.

The Corvette is one of the most practical sports cars you could ever buy. My parents had a 99 that would haul more groceries than you could put in a cart, get 30+ mpg on the highway, and be fun to drive. The only thing it really lacked was extra seats and a bed for hauling lumber. It’s nowhere near as single purpose…

This has been the problems with AVs from the start.  There are plenty of autonomous vehicles in the world today, but the difference is they operate in a controlled environment.  If you can’t control the car in every case, you have to control the environment to remove the case to begin with.  Several ports are almost…

“Internet capable” and “everything controllable remotely” are two different things though. Just because a car has a modem doesn’t mean that it’s ECM is connected to it and every function of the car is accessible through it. It’s not a lot different than using your phone as a hot spot in the car. My “car has internet”…

There’s beef to be had by competitive-minded players who hate not having complete control of a fighter, and Hero’s randomized nature does mean sacrificing a certain amount of control.

I think some of it depends on just how much speed difference you get between wheels. I’ve hit plenty of puddles that will “hydro brake” the car and slow it do pretty significantly but it has never triggered a TCS warning on the dash. The theory of what they are talking about makes sense, but it would require all 4…

The tricky thing with rich people is how you got there.  Say you just made a really amazing thing that became wildly popular and sold million of copies and you made $1 profit on each.  You’re an overnight millionaire just because what you made was popular.  You didn’t do any more work than the next guy, you just found…

Put it between the front and rear seats, then the driver and front passenger can enjoy a mid/rear engine experience and the rear passengers can feel like they are driving a front engine car with a reaaaaaly long hood.

Yeah, but they are still building them in volume compared to any other mid engine car out there. The MR2 was affordable mid-engine back in the day for the same reason and the only other “cheap” mid engine I can think of. I guess you could maybe call the Boxster “cheap” as well, relatively speaking.

Maybe it’s just a random dude that broke his front bumper and got a steal on buying a former camo one used.

My first car was a 71 Vette and it still sits in my garage today almost 20 years later. I’ve thought of selling it from time to time, but every time I drive it I remember how much I enjoy it. It’s the slowest, least efficient, and maybe even least comfortable car I own, but it’s still probably my favorite looking.

I did regular commuting and that was the reason I sold my automatic car.  It was so mindless and boring to drive.  I wanted something that actually kept me engaged.

There are various stories on it and I’m sure there’s some truth to all of them.  I talked with one of the lead Viper engineers about it at a show and asked what the deal was.  Ultimately he said they cancelled it because they just couldn’t put together a business case for it.  I’m thinking a $300k Chrysler had…

Eh, I guess that’s fair, though maybe not as typical.  Hard to say.  I’m not sure what the borderline is on financials between saving for the car you always wanted and having the money to get both.  Like, if I wanted to I could save up and buy a 550 Maranello (the only Ferrari I really want), but it would mean passing…

I think the C8 is going to have a tough time pulling buyers from other brands. A lot of the time it has no bearing how good the car is when it wears the “badge of a commoner” so to speak. People buy European sports and luxury cars because of the cache and name. Chrysler had the same problem with the ME412 years and…

For me it boiled down to potential and efficiency. I went through a few different builds in my head and on paper and they all came out with similar numbers, but the modern engine left a lot more room on the table to grow. I looked at a stroker small block, supercharged “junkyard” small block, aluminum big block, and…

Yeah, my Viper is an interesting hybrid of the two I’ve found.  The front portion is basically a large magnesium panel (if I remember right) and the rear section is just fabric, though the front section is also covered in the same fabric.  It gives the top nice rigidity and air flow characteristics at speed (far less…