You missed the sentence “spoilers aren’t an issue for me”? However, I can empathize with people in different regions having different options for watching the sport, and being in different financial situations. It’s called “not being an asshole”.

Wow. I’m sure this will get me back into the greys, but this makes you into an even bigger dickhead than Schrader in my book. If Jalopnik’s standard for writers is this low, I won’t miss this place.

My biggest gripe is that Gawker/ex-Gawker/whatever it is these days tend to cross-promote content across their blogs (Yes, blogs. Not “news sites”. Jesus Christ, raise your standards). So if you go to Kotaku, io9, Gizmodo or whatever, this headline will appear in the upper left corner.

Where I live (Sweden), essentially 100% of all driving licences are for manual cars. I think it’s now an option to get an “automatic only” licence, but that option only appeared a couple of years ago. Hence all driving schools are using stick shifts, and the driving test you take will be on a stick shift. I can assure…

FINALLY. 

Very, very few NA or NB owners in the Miata community would trade their current car for an NC, even if they were offered a direct trade with no money inbetween. Just like pretty much zero owners of a 1969 Mustang would trade their car for a 1999 Mustang. “Most people just want the latest iteration” isn’t true for car…

Your take is pretty much exactly what I meant by an overly simplified take on the matter (which, to be fair, is very common in sport history).

The “Ford vs Ferrari” story has been told so many times, and every time it’s oversimplified to the point of insulting the listener, just for pandering to one perspective or the other.

Like most of those occasions, it’s when armchair engineers (and real engineers) get to poke hole in some marketing bullshit move pulled by the PR arm of a deep-pocketed for-profit conglomerate.

Bollocks, that’s the iconic ‘Even.

I went through the car list, and removed everything that is (a) a pretty expensive sports car, (b) a very old vintage car or (c) a race car, to get the following list of “everyday cars I’m likely to see on the parking lot outside my window”:

To me, and many other Gran Turismo fans, it’s not about the number of cars or number of tracks. It’s about the complete lack of width.

You’re not wrong. Other RWD cars with similar lap times tend to not be purpose-built for this particular scenario.

“Classy?”

I can’t believe that anyone on Jalopnik doesn’t appreciate the brilliant 1970s design of the V-35 Courier. This has been my favourite sci-fi vehicle ever since I spotted it in the background when I was nine years old.

This doesn’t make any sense at all unless you’re assuming that an unproportional amount of large prices have already been claimed by a fluke. If there is only one or two top-tier winners, then this might of course happen. But when we’re talking about as many as 70 top prices, the odds are that if 57 prices have been…

I usually try to avoid commenting unless I have anything useful to add, but I’ll make an exception today. I just wanted to say: Jesus motherfucking Christ.

IMO, good racing is always about a lack of fuel. And tyres.

Bollocks, Torch. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.

I agree with you in pretty much everything. I wish that there were more cars with supercar looks and “aspirational” prices (even if the performance is sacrificed). Something one could dream of buying after saving up for 20 years. The real successors to the NSX (and to the Esprit) is the Evora, like you say, and the…