Seems like Qatar needs a big dose of Daenerys and her dragons.

Laser requires a reflective surface to hit (e.g. headlights, front license plate, chrome grille, etc.)

This. I bought mine for 1300 in the winter, rode it for a year and a half, and sold it in the summer for 1800.

By that measure, doesn’t that mean the Corolla is the ultimate car?

So this never happened?

Actually, I think the beef is that Honda has been saying the NSX would come out forever, and it’s never come out. In 2007, they said it would come out by 2010. Did it? Nope. We got to see a prototype running around the Ring in 2008, but that’s about it.

When the NSX finally comes out maybe 10 years from now, I’m pretty sure the i8 will have gone through at least two more iterations.

Wookies live for well over 400 years, so he's probably right in the prime of his life.

That quite literally means never buying a previously leased German. I can’t insurer how many people would actually perform maintenance beyond what their lease contract says.

I thought the gay trend was to buy Subarus?

For their target demographic, it might as well be an M4 rival. I don’t think many folks will be able to tell the difference without pushing it past 7/10ths.

What does meticulously maintained mean? Does it mean that the owner followed the recommended service interval? When I had a Z4 with the N52 engine, the car was telling me to do oil changes every 17K miles. BMW would not perform free oil changes unless the car said it needed it or it was 1 year since my last oil…

Exactly. All I could here was the coarse-sounding motor. No smooth induction noise, just a grainy rattly sound. A lot of folks have complained that the engine sounds truck-like due to that.

I’m not sure why exactly, but when I test drove a G37 with the same VQ37 motor as the 370Z the induction noise sounded a whole lot better. I don’t know if it’s due to a difference in sound dampening material around the firewall or some other structural difference, but whatever it is the G37 sounded less rattly and…

Exhaust note isn’t the same as engine note. You can throw an exhaust onto a 370Z, but the engine note still sounds like trash. What Nissan is doing doesn’t make an aftermarket exhaust redundant from an aural perspective; it’s strictly to address the crappy engine/induction noise than the VQ37 has in the 370Z.

Maybe it’s not so much amplifying it as it is fixing it. Who knows, maybe it’ll sound better. I mean, it can’t sound much worse than it already does....

Plenty of people have been complaining about how the VQ37 in the 370Z sounds terrible. I’m talking about the engine/induction note, not the exhaust note. That seems to be what Nissan is trying to address.

That’s just the exhaust note, which I think sounds great. However, the engine note (especially from inside the cabin) really is it’s weakest point because it sounds pretty terrible.

The exhaust note sounds good. The engine note is hot garbage.