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There’s always going to be some initial wear from contact parts that hit 7000 rpm. Depending on their factory break-in procedure, your “first” oil change may be more like the second, but modern tolerances may have them doing less at the factory (and then finding out once the cars are in the wild that there’s more…

None of this sounded very “perverse” to me. Just plain old, hipster, faux-irony (less cruel than regular irony...besides legitimate humor is played out).

It’s about 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene

If you don’t want to do dangerous things, don’t do dangerous things. Don’t insist politicians Nerf the world for everyone else.

It’s less inherently unbalanced than an I4, and uses one balance shaft rather than two which should make it rev better. Still no I6 or V8 though.

Audi became Audi with the B5 S4 & RS4. And maybe when the S8 showed up in Ronin.

Even if you think the S4 is too big to count (it is), there’s the TT RS, RS3, RS4, and RS7.

Hm guess I stand corrected. In my experience mainstream buyers equate size with quality and wouldn’t seek out uber-performance versions of small cars. I know when I decide to make that level of irresponsible purpose, I’ll have a list of maybe two cars and want to test drive, but can’t imagine seeing the dealership as…

Do you think there are many non-enthusiasts buying the low volume hardcore performance models? I’d believe it for AMG cars because they’re higher volume and it’s more like an exclusive badge, and the S4 as the upscale trim of the A4, but for something like the RS and V-series I’d expect them to be too…

I’m not saying they don’t take it to the dealer for service, I’m saying the folks who buy the top performance trim aren’t the ones showing up at a dealership to check out options on the new ES because they know they can count on good Lexus coffee. They’re there to buy an M car because it’s an M car, or an RS4 because…

An ATS-V with AWD and a stick would be about the perfect all around car.

I can see “dealer experience” mattering for someone looking for whatever random base model Lexus or FWD Audi fits into his price bracket, but if you’re buying a V, M, or RS car, you’re buying the car and the driving experience, not the single trip there to pick it up.

5 cylinders belong in actually small cars, like the RS3. The 4 has been north of 3500 for some time and in RS form 3800+. A low-3 liter 6 is already a downsized engine...go any further and you’re going to trade output or end up with a peaky engine, because limited displacement means limited turbo spool capability. A…

Pressure is resistance to flow. So if the supercharger is at its limits, cranking it up will produce more heat than extra air molecules. A bigger supercharger or turbo doesn’t provide more PSI, it flows more air at a given PSI.

3WD because the torque will keep one off the ground.

Lift up the body, reverse it, reinstall. It’s great Nissan wanted to think outside the box, but FWD was always going to be a reality-fighting gimmick.

The entire Mazda lineup would become instant class leaders with Ecoboost engines.

Mustang II, with V10 and ducktail spoiler?

Mazda 6 is begging for a real powertrain. Skyactiv 4-bangers and FWD are a waste of Mazda’s design and suspension talent...shame they aren’t still partnered with Ford so we could have an AWD Ecoboost 2.3 as a 6S, and an AWD Ecoboost 2.7 as a Mazdaspeed 6.