How so? I think the performance and price in relation to it’s competition will be what really determines whether it is “pretty far from the general idea of what a Corvette is”. The Corvette has always been about punching above its weight. If the C8 gives us near to Huracan Performante levels of performance for near to …

Race. Car. Bed.

Challenge accepted:

New 5 blade grill with moisturizing strip just leaked...

Taller and more lights is better, this one is mine

This will be great for the new series I’m writing with Dick Wolf:  Law and Order: SVYoutube

The fat and the furryious

True story:

When your brand identity is dominated by styling that looks like it was focus grouped at Trump rallies, your brand identity needs some reflection and self-examination. I swear to God, somewhere in the focus-group verbatims you’ll find some comments about how having a giant-ass grille in someone’s hybrid’s rearview and…

My uncle was the most careful, gentle, intellectual, Consumer Reports-reading car guy you could ever imagine. He usually drove a Buick station wagon, but his wife had a cherry Karmann Ghia and he had a Fiat Spider (in impeccable condition, naturally) for the occasional weekend jaunt.

I keep it in gear (and downshift when I’m down to about 20kph into 2nd just in case I need to scoot away in an emergency).

Your dad is kinda silly, like most dads. Over the time most people keep their cars they will do several brake changes. They’ll probably do either one or zero transmission “changes”, and that number isn’t likely to change based on whether or not they engine brake.

i realize anecdote /= data but i am at about 500k miles driven in a manual over the years and i have always engine braking and i have literally never replaced a clutch in any car. The most miles ive driven in any specific one is 250k and the rest are b/n 40 - 75k. Again, ymmv, these are just my results.

It should cause no meaningful wear on the throwout bearing. You’re still going to be clutching to coast or downshift, the question is just when. The worst thing for that particular part is probably to just clutch and hold to coast instead of doing either of the options noted below.

The synchros are going to be used regardless of whether you go up/down 1 gear or 2. Any rev-matching you do, even ballpark, is going to be more important than whether you switch gears.

It needs.....something more.

RE: Poor Pay

Maybe if he was just a floor worker. But a supervisor?  He should’ve been fired immediately after saying that.  Nobody that thinks that way (especially to the point he feels comfortable just blurting it out) has any business supervising people.  There’s no way you can trust him to treat all the workers equally.

I love my FiST. I don’t know that I would recommend it being able to last a decade though.

I just bought this one new. Practical, fuel efficient daily commuter with enough power to have fun but not get in trouble. I know he wants an auto but the clutch is light and easy and shouldn’t add any wear to his weary left leg.