Awfully ambitious of them, thinking that this engine and transmission can last 24 hours at race pace.

Looks like the Genesis G-series. Except the Genesis G-cars look better.

Agreed. The FA/FD/8th gen SI was the very last SI I loved and got excited about. The K20 is a peach. That generation was peak SI. Every generation after got more diluted, watered down, and not nearly as fun to drive.

The Mazdaspeed 3 could have potentially existed if Mazda didn’t can their Mazda 3 TCR race car due to COVID.

ND Miata. Having owned both ND1 and ND2 in separate occasions, the ND2 engine update was a much needed upgrade in performance. It’s a great engine, and it would be nice to squeeze a full 200 HP out if it, though not completely necessary. But the biggest glaring weakness of the Miata is the soft suspension. I get the…

COVID will kill the everyday performance cars. And dealers will bury them and place headstones on their graves by marking them up so high that you might as well buy in to a higher segment.

Crazy how far the Koreans have come in just 10 short years. Fun to drive in a boring looking CUV? A commuter EV at that?!!? From a brand we all considered cheap and junky a little over 10 years ago? It didn’t have to be fun to drive. It would have sold just fine as an appliance vehicle to get from point A to point B.…

I can’t find much info on the 1.6T Smartstream engine. I thought that it was just an updated and renamed Gamma II, but the bore and stroke measurements are different, so I’m going to assume that it’s all new, or mostly all new. Time will tell, I guess.

I believe that’s the Gamma engine you have. Theta II-i engines are only found in real N cars. N-Line cars are appearance package only.

2.0 to 2.4. With and without turbos.

Oh man I love that mechanical transmission noise. My old NC2 Miata transmission made clickety-clackety noises like that which enhanced the experience, IMO.

I never said it wasn’t fast or exciting. I just said that it’s transmission felt like an afterthought. There are plenty of fast cars out there with lackluster transmissions. But I can only speak about the ones I’ve driven.

One thing to note is that the Theta II-i which is found in the Veloster N, Elantra N, and Kona N are unaffected by this. The N engines share very little with their pedestrian counterparts, and are incredibly robust and can handle track days without overheating after 2 laps. They also don’t consume oil like the regular…

Thought I was the only one. I drove my friend’s MK6 GTI and have underwhelmed with the more or less dead feeling transmission.

I’m not going for low hanging fruit by listing older cars here.

PT Cruiser, Dodge Caliber.

100 allocations for your region or the entirety of North America?

This slide show will apply to people who didn’t put a deposit down on a GRC. 

Those are better numbers. North America would probably get the lion’s share like the CTR did. I just put down a refundable deposit on one for MSRP+dealer bullshit fees and add-ons. 2nd in line apparently, and they were confident that I could get one.

I’m sure we’d like to know what projected production numbers will be, and how many model years the GRC is expected to last.