Those of us who love 911s and have run them on track know that the idiosyncratic layout that we have come to cherish is, how should I say ... stoopid! It’s amazing that the rear engine layout works as well as it does, but when you finally lose the back end - and you will! - well, Porsche didn’t manage to alter the…

Wow, this turned into quite an amazing thread. First off, as only one of the financial geniuses in this thread noted, this story is from Sydney, Australia. Australia has massive import duties on cars to try and protect its domestic market. Cars are at least twice as expensive in nominal terms as the US and exotics…

I had a 993 before the 996. There’s not a lot in it. The 996 drives way better, like one car instead of half an understeery one welded to half a very oversteery one. But you’d expect that. The 991 is dynamically better than the 997 and 996 but they’ve just lost the tactile immediacy of the older cars.

Yes! Yes! YEEESSS!!! So much this. This is why I hang on to my 20 year old 996 because the new 911s just feel like big, heavy beige boxes in comparison. OK, that’s a tough accusation to fling at a 911 but the steering feel is not there and the smallness and lightness (just around 3,000 lbs for the 996) is missing in…

The new limousine is going to be huuge, so so good. We have the best presidential limos, folks. The last one was bad. It was made by illegal immigrants. The new one will be the best. We’re going to send those immigrants back out of the country. And we’ll make the taxpayers pay for it. Oh, wait.

She should just say “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” to fuck with/please the christo-fascists as appropriate.

It was a political act!

And then—and then!—when Trump’s aides were squabbling over how to respond to James Comey’s recent email upset, former Breitbart goblin Steve Bannon literally caught fire:

Ve mast deal vid it!

The 996 headlights always looked great on the Carrera GT1. I always consider that when someone disses the original 996. The only failing is that even I, a dyed-in-the-wool Porschephile from decades ago occasionally mistakes a 986 Boxster for a 996 911! From some angles my car looks great, from others goofy. It has…

You could do a lot worse! The 996 Carrera 2 is a much-maligned Porsche although I have no idea why. It’s fast, light, handles fabulously, has a proper handbrake lever and hydraulic steering and can still out-perform most cars on the road. I am happier with it than the 991s I’ve tested so far. (It seems most people…

I’ve watched a bunch of Nurburgring vids (I have pretensions of driving it one of these years) and I can safely say that BMWs are evil-handling cars, prone to the most lurid oversteer. Some expert drivers manage to tame it, and there are a handful of irritating specimens that seem to drift their E30s and E36s the…

I watch some of these because I have fantasies about doing the Nordschleife, and I think that maybe I can learn how not to do something, but I always feel dirty for watching someone else’s painful wipeout. Seriously, I derive no pleasure from watching people like me, lose their prideundjoymobiles to lift-off oversteer…

Jason, animals don’t have wheels! That’s just a vicious lie promulgated by those sick mendacitists at Breitbart. (“Mendacitists” may not actually be a word, but it has truthiness, no?)

My inner Dr. Strangelove momentarily got the better of me.

Then why aren’t you called Bmwstein?!?!? Ahem.

America! Exceptional! (It’s like “special”, only different)

Honestly, it was the same with Schumi and “honestly”. Honestly!

I dunno - Tesla are making a lot of them: 8700 delivered this past year IIRC. Maybe the Tesla Roadster: much fewer of those built.

They should have stuck with the T- naming convention of their other SUVs and cross-overs. Talus would have been better than Atlas IMHO. I don’t know why, I just don’t like “Atlas”. I guess it doesn’t roll off the tongue: vee double-you atlas V-WAtlas. Hmm.