although the dealer has no word on how much power this thing makes.

And these interiors were “nice” compared to American cars of the era. Go look up a Malibu or Taurus from the mid 2000s for comparison.

Heavy, ponderous things with little joy in driving them,

Akrapovič

Agreed, especially since this is a transverse FWD-oriented AWD setup.

Very different cars.

really the tC was the successor to the Celica all along.

I think it’s that the Celica suffered from being seen as a “girl’s car” whereas the AE86 gained popularity in the USA due to anime.

The Supra is probably Toyota’s best GT (grand touring) car.

Toyota has zero interest in actually selling the supra

we wouldn’t be surprised if demand starts to fall off once the early adopters have all gotten theirs.

Yeah, I don’t think the authors here expect you to actually click on the links.  I’ve long suspected that they are auto-generated.

For sure. That’s basically what I was getting at. Axle hop is generally a symptom of too much traction.

The Speirling is such an incredible machine, I’m surprised that it doesn’t get talked about more often. 

masochistic?

VW has been phoning in the manuals for so long.

The LSD doesn’t help.  The axle hop is terrible.

I think almost every car with start-stop has a failsafe in place that turns the feature off when the battery is low enough to not safely re-start the car.

The problem with how this is reported, is we don’t even know how they got to the that figure. Gross margin is supposed to be related to cost of goods sold, which is calculated from inputs, labor, and overhead expenses, but not R&D. But we have no idea if they mean gross margin or profit margin because they don’t say…

It’s ~30k or so overdue, and whiteblocks are definitely interference engines.