You baby the bejeezus out of a rotary and you’ll kill it. They need monthly Italian tune ups to keep everything breathing nicely.

Prince George? Maybe. It looks like it passes through the town I was brought up in and the namesake for the newest Windsor.

I've always loved the FD's cockpit.

My Dad did a similar thing. We were on a vacation when I was really young, and the leaf spring on the tent trailer we were pulling broke. So he vise-gripped (that should be a verb) it back together and we were back on the road.

Buyin a super car and putting you (or me) into the cockpit it is like buying a blu ray and hooking it up to a tube television. There are few people who can really drive those cars. People buy them either because they want to look cool or because they want to have fun-the same reasons people get manuals.

Like 12A housings or rotors, or really anything 12A. I heard they scrapped all the tooling for those.

Toyota, you're breaking my heart in two.

Not bespoke. (Sorry to be an asshole)

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I'm with you on that. They made their names in the sports sedan category, which is quickly becoming the Camry of the well-off.

Those TTs re awesome, with their trunk lid spoilers.

Funny thing is, a rotary engine with worn apex seals will still get you to your destination, just a lot slower. And, a rotary is a simpler engine than a piston engine, with less moving parts. The only reason the rotary has its reputation is the apex seals. Other then that it's rock solid. Well, apex seals and heat,…

I'm with you. Ninety per cent of what the German big three put out just leaves me cold. They're like Camrys with pretension. Maybe if I can ever afford one, I'd be amazed at how they drive, but from the point of an outside observer, they are racing toward a vanishing point of design mediocrity.

Sure it does. It's all based on pronunciation in different countries: in Japan Mazda is pronounced Matsuda, the founder of the companies name; and in English an 'e' hanging off the end of a word isn't pronounced, thus porsh. I also don't get your comment about Volkswagen versus Porsche. Saying Volkswagen with an…

I've never heard that. But I do know that the founder of Mazda's last name was Matsuda, which is how it's spelled in Japanese, and I've heard Japanese car companies when they were coming to America wanted to not seem Japanese, because most things coming out of Japan at the time was cheaply manufactured crap, a la…

But it's an anglicization of the founder's name: Matsuda Jujiro.

All car brand names are written in katakana or romaji, which means they, as far as I've seen, either write it Mazda or マツダ (matsuda) depending on which alphabet they want to use.

I love bringing up Mazda when Porsche lovers complain about mispronunciation. Cars have become so global the word Mazda, as most westerners read it, isn't even in the phonemes of the Japanese language. There's not even a real proper pronunciation for it.

I disagree, though I may be the only one, that chick car is necessarily a bad thing. Lots of them are just cars that focus on style rather than speed (think karmann ghia, new beetle, new mini, and new fiat 500). I think these cars offer some much-needed diversity in car line-ups. Their great sin is that when you're…

Gunma is a prefecture, not a road.