Has anyone posted this here yet?
TheInfamousMisterLicious
theinfamousmisterlicious
Best comment of the day - I am completely with you on this.
That is such tired BS. I drove a manual C3 Corvette in Chicago 20 years ago - and the only thing I got tired of was trips to the clinic to get another "z pack" to relieve the drip/burn I got from all the dirty whores I used to bang in that city.
No I won't. I'll put a "save the manuals" sticker in the back window and on the rare occasion that I'm near a new slushbox 911, I'll point to it.
I remember Car and Driver calling that car 'A nice little runabout...from the Planet Zarkon"
I drove one and liked it - I thought it was more of a "poor man's SLK" than it was a "better handling Miata", but I suppose we are splitting hairs. If I was smart, I would have bought one of the couple hundred Solstice Red Line Coupes with the dealer installed Stage II - because I could have made money on it while…
Better looking and faster than a Miata = check. Better handling? Hm...
Isn't that just a Geo Storm with a more expensive and finicky suspension?
Why not go for an 05-06 with the 6.0 LS2? Trust me, that 50HP and 50 lbs of torque is VERY noticeable.
But there were no manual wagons, in brown or any other color :(
Okay, fine - then compared to the 540i and GTO/Holden - it's painfully slow *and* uncomfortable.
Compared to every Corvette (C4's and C5's), Mustang, and Camaro on this list - it's painfully slow. Sure, I guess it's faster than the Amazon someone suggested...
I wish it was a '97. The inline six is just so much more at home in a British humidor-on-wheels.
better than the other choices on this list? Not a chance. I like Volvos, and I like S60's - but the model pictured (2001-02) can be bought with the T5, a stick and a solid "stage 0" for roughly half the asking price.
You can find decent stick shift examples for ten, although they all have over 100K miles. When these were submitted on the six cylinder for less than six grand, I vehemently objected - because the four grand delta here is significant.
This is an accurate comparison, although Tucker wasn't such a self-involved, arrogant prick.
I wish the technology went the OTHER way, give me RWD and the live rear axle and LSD out of the last generation performance pack / track pack Mustang and put it in the Fiesta / Focus and you'd have something.
Plenty of people like to think of the Tesla Model S as a massive smartphone on wheels, with its huge battery, monolithic touchscreen, and constant software updates. So to hear that Tesla has snagged more employees from Apple than anywhere else shouldn't come as a surprise.