The whole idea seems seriously lame compared to just using an electric motor to spin up the turbo. Compressing all that air is going to be horrendously inefficient compared to storing and releasing electricity.

Yes. Move the lever to the left, and use the paddles. For additional driver involvement, you can stomp on the dead pedal with your left foot every time you hit one of the paddles.

This is Porsche’s:

L’Hôpital’s Hoopty

Clearly you can see the VC-25A’s route deliberately avoided Syria, Iraq and Iran.

How many Lexus owners even know how to open their hood?

I don’t know whether to respond defensively, or hang my head and sigh in acknowledgement.

This stroke of German engineering genius still exists in the present-day 981 and 991. If your battery dies, the procedure is:

Hydrogen isn’t an energy source, it’s an energy store. Hydrogen-powered cars are a pretty stupid idea, standing out in an industry with no shortage of them. All of the inefficiency of a hybrid, but conveniently hidden from view at whatever plant generates and compresses the hydrogen.

Looks more Macanish to me.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to spend a lot more money to buy it from Alfa or Porsche or somebody like that. Mazda doesn’t want your money, or mine.

Those are two radically different cars. An F-type probably weighs almost as much as two 4Cs.

If you’re honestly asking, here’s why it’s hard to fathom: because the cars you posted can easily be ordered in trim levels that make them more expensive than base 911s. In fact, that’s pretty common, as you’d see if you hung around on the various Boxster and Cayman forums. There is absolutely no way to compare the…

Macan Turbo owner here. Have dealt with two “Oh, you got the truck?” derpasauruses who felt the Macan wasn’t a proper Porsche. 3 guesses what they drove.

Those are just some very strange cars to pick on, is all I’m saying.

But what’s interesting is how well he succeeded in riling them up. I had no idea that these cars were attracting any sort of popular “douchebag” stigma, but they clearly are.

But those people are more likely to be in Cayennes or (I guess now) Macans, if they’re just looking to show off a badge.

That’s an interesting assertion, even more interesting with 44 upvotes attached to it. What, specifically, inspired it? Did someone in a Boxster run your SmartCar off the road, or something?

If you quit making such a big deal about it, you’d find that the tourist trade would fall off in a hurry. What you have created instead is a recipe for “forbidden fruit,” aka the Streisand Effect.

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