No no no no no. That's stupid. On a Corvette, two of the wheels turn, and two of the wheels put power to the road. What they SHOULD do is drive the front left and rear-right wheels, then steer the front right and rear left wheels. That way, we don't break the perfect Corvette formula of two wheels to steer and two to…

"Why V10?"

It's perfect, I'll take it. Most excited I've been for a new car, like, ever. I've been hoping for this ever since they brought the Fiesta back to the US.

This is the biggest want I've had for a new car in years. 197hp through a 6 speed in a 2500lb compact hatch? Perfection.

It's still an excellent idea, though. That's enough gokart to scare the shit out of you and a very large friend of yours! Granted, I wouldn't want to go for a "traditional" go-kart, since those don't have a differential. It would be excellent in a modified FSAE chassis, though. You'd be looking at a power to weight…

"decent starter"? I don't think you understand gokarts very well. A shifter kart has around 40hp. A Formula SAE car has at most 80-90 hp. This thing has 120. That would make an absolutely bonkers gokart, a hell of a lot better than just "decent." Also, it would be terrifying.

In retrospect, I think we should have realized that the sort of person who was so self-absorbed that she would drive on the sidewalk to avoid waiting for a bus is well past the point where they would view this sort of punishment as anything but an irritating inconvenience.

"not fast by 2012 performance car standards"

I actually dropped in to post that song as its own thread, but against all odds, you set me up for the perfect reply, and there was no way in hell I was passing it up.

http://youtu.be/ EDIT: Nevermind, got it.

I'll just leave this here...

The Toyobaru is a Scion in the U.S., and this is a Toyota contest.

I can second this motion. My dad's a professor of psychology at the local CC, and he drives a red Z3. Former owner was not a stripper, thankfully. He was far too old.

I've always seen flashing reds paired with stop signs & other normal intersection signage, such as "4-Way" or "Cross traffic does not stop."

Do it.

My jelly is strong, man. The interior is my favorite feature of the MkVI. Volkswagen did black the right way with this one. Also, if you get the same seats the the R does, I'm doubly jelly. Finding a sport seat that's wide enough to fit me and deep enough to hold me in place is a tough thing. The MkIV seats are quite…

A friend of mine had a beat-to-hell 200k mile '96 Corolla with non-functioning seatbelts which is bad enough.

If you can figure out how to drive with your dick in the tailpipe, you can figure out how to put your dick in a tailpipe without blocking the flow.

& GTI interior. It's just nicer. Mmmm, piano black.

Comfort, primarily. I haven't driven a WRX, so I'm not speaking from experience, but the WRX is heavily skewed towards the rough-and-tumble performance side of the hatchback world, whereas VW also puts a lot of effort into making the GTI a really nice place to be. The fast Golfs (I wasn't going to leave out the R) are…