1st Gear: Japanese Banks Are Abandoning Toyota

I prefer driving fast cars fast.

The idea is that it’s not special anymore.

more like 25-100.

The one thing this thread has taught me is that nobody working at a supercar manufacture wants to design a light.

Isn’t every GM built this way?

I don’t think that many people use their garages for cars anymore. It seems like a chicken and egg problem: trucks are too big for garages, so they don’t expect trucks to be parked in garages, so they don’t see garages as a place to store the vehicles.

We can’t imagine that BMW has any plans to bring the new 1 Series to the U.S.

Put your money where your mouth is and go out and buy the Mini Clubman JCW. It’s on sale right now in the USA and is a rebadged version of the M135. Same engine, same transmission, same platform, same size.

I’ve owned a couple of WRXes back in the 00s. Every generation I consider one, but opt for something else instead.

everyone hated every single one without exception and said they ruined the car (until the next one came out,

Buy an Outback XT. Lower it if the added 2" of height bothers you.

A steering shaft can break too, so it’s not inherently more reliable. And with EPS, a power failure effectively immobilizes the steering system anyway, since most are too strong for a person to steer against with the EPS motor acting as a brake.

This could have been actually fun and interesting, but instead it is just laughable.

Now to be fair, all steer by wire systems lag. It’s just a result of having no physical mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels

Cars holding their value cuts both ways. A car you buy for $10k and sell three years later for $9k is cheaper than a car you bought for $5k and scrapped three years later.

They’ve probably mostly been converted to manual. It’s a really easy swap and given the discount of automatics, it’s a worthwhile swap.

Depreciation is a bitch. They are basically expecting this to lose half of its value in three years.

If Mazda had given us another RX-7, taller drivers could just buy one of those, but Mazda never did.

I’d be happy with the STI getting the DCCD and differentials. Perhaps paint the black trim, throw on some wider tires, and increase charge cooling capacity to juice lightning lap times and justify the 10k price increase.