Valid points, except for the one about analog speedometers. You don’t prefer analog speedos over digital speedos, you prefer them over bad digital speedos.

I’m not familiar with Brabus, but that is a modified (“nicely equipped”) Jeep Wrangler, isn’t it? They’re just taking the whole custom-Jeep thing to an absurd level.

Those were crap-ass cars (how many Granadas are still on the road today?), but that was one hell of an effective ad.

Better order that Cayman now.

What test is this from?

Bomb somebody else’s harbor next time, kthxbye.

You can get Porsche-level speed and power out of a four-cylinder — Porsche proved that with the 951 and 968.

Fortunately, no cops ever carry small quantities of drugs in their cruisers to plant on people who do scumbag things like refuse to give permission for a search. That never happens.

(Shrug) I wouldn’t throw either of them out of my garage for leaking a bit of oil now and then.

Visibility is driven by the compromise between cost and crash regs. To meet side-impact standards without a lot of expensive structural hardware, you need a high beltline.

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.