My theory is that a M2GTS variant might come around in a year or so. Drop the same 200lbs they did on the M4GTS, and offer way more performance than the hot Cayman GT4 that nobody can buy. Also may be why you can’t spec the carbon brakes on the M2 - saving it for the next step up. Love me some Porsche but their price…

I’m sincerely interested in one of these as my next long-term daily. Just wish they could’ve got the weight down. Wonder if there will be an M2GTS variant in a couple years. They managed to shake a considerable 200lbs out of the M4 despite adding a roll bar.

This isn’t crazy. Nissan’s sporty lineup is long in tooth, and might buy them some time to kill/replace the 350/370z.

How are the sales doing on these? I’ve only see an i3 running around for StateFarm Insurance, but no i3 or i8 in the real world - and I live in a fairly wealthy part of our country...

I didn’t know that! You’d think NA is THE market, car sales were record highs in 2015...

That’s a fair point, other than maybe the Fiesta ST (and I don’t know what those or the Focus ST cost exactly). They’re both fun at AutoX.

Toyota killed Scion for a reason, Nissan won’t resurrect Datsun. Nissan themselves haven’t done anything interesting on the affordable-fun end of the spectrum for a long long time. (will the 370z never die?). Nissan came up with the IDX concept, the general population loved it, and then Nissan dropped it. I’m really…

The FF seems to be one of those cars that looks much better in person. I like it for being weird mostly. Harry Metcalf has an interesting real-world review on this taking it skiing with 4 people + gear. No skiis though so the + gear part is a bit iffy.

I read something somewhere sometime recently that said approximately 60% of all Mercs sold are AMG models now. Soon they’ll all be AMG with tiers of AMG-ness.

This one time I turned on my wipers but I guess one was really frozen to the windshield because the whole actual blade broke off from the arm.

Or the whole actual blade from the arm. Ask me how I know...

Myself and a friend discovered that these cars have no tow points. I would say this car failed because it’s motor mount broke at under 5000 miles, and had no tow points.

What is this, Reddit?

there are not enough stars to give

I think the big takeaway from this is knowing that somewhere, somehow, people still wear those strange jester/rasta-dreads/god-knows-what head warming devices.

Thanks for listening to my rambling! haha

That’s the idea, adding the really high-angle bit in your camaro pic just makes it that much further for the air under the car to have to travel, making the vacuum that much stronger.

Good diagram, all that blue under the car is low-pressure air, speeding up to meet the airstream above the car. Same principle, pulls a vacuum under the rear of the car. AutoX guys use this too due to rules about wing dimensions not being allowed to exceed body dimensions in some classes.

I’m being a cranky engineer, but don’t really have a good arguement for you. Whaletails are typically long to smooth out the air behind the car - more like anti-drag and anti-lift, vs. a wing making actual downforce. In the case of older 911's, that’s also the main air intake/cooler for the engine. Wings work by…

Air needs to go past both the top and bottom sides of the wing to generate downforce. This just makes drag. Works on the soft-top version.