Watching the video of the guy unboxing the Porsche Le Mans prototype made me go researching. Exoto prices have skyrocketed apparently. I’m sitting on a small fortune after 20 years.  There’s no way I could buy one at this point and justify the purchase.  It’s a damn mortgage payment.   But the quality and detail…holy…

Agoura Hills Raceway?  I grew up in the area and still live somewhat locally and had no idea it existed.  Riverside was a shame.  Caesar’s had issues with asphalt lifting during the race. 

Who needs the V6. This has the wonderful Lampredi twincam.  You know, the engine that powered various Fiats and Lancias to about a dozen WRC and other series championships over the years.  Parts are easy. 

There already are.  The first gen models are everywhere.

Better yet, all the cars that same off of lease were sold at ridiculous prices. My 2015 was had for $8300 total in October 0f 2018. Flawless car. I’m now at 86,000 miles.

Small electric hot hatch performance.  It may or may not catch on.

All of those Gen One small EVs had a similar range. Whether the 500e, the Spark, Golf, MINI, or others. Really, at this point the first 500e examples are now well over 10 years old. They’re truly ancient.

Is this when I mention that the new 500e was the best selling EV in Europe, even beating the Tesla model 3 in sales for a few months during 2022?

Brilliant. Let’s destroy the chassis development the factory put millions into giving you a decent safe and handling vehicle, and you destroying it for that 2% of time you spend driving over someone’s lawn, and putting the rest of us in harms way when you operate that now reduced-performance vehicle on a public…

The original 1000 SP was classically gorgeous.   This is a modern existing car that they’re attempting to mold into something reminiscent of the original vintage car.  That doesn’t always work.  

The Dino is one gorgeous power plant.  

It’s a Hyundai.   Too consumerish, too mass produced, too boring  

The Alfa Busso V6 always makes these surveys. It sounds great, looks great, and does wonderful things.

Luckily I’m not a fat old fart, and I appreciate a vehicle that doesn’t handle like the Exxon Valdez.  So I’ll take that perfectly sized Euro box.  

I’m willing to pay for quality and performance, are you?

It’s right there in plain English. They made the decision to sell the public a lesser capable product, ‘just to be different’. And people bought them. Fools and their money.

Hurricane warning last week.  Plenty of time to do anything about it. No excuses. 

Any denying size creep in succeeding models is out of control?

In English this time.  What?

Basically your post regurgitates the same old conservative bullshit excuses.