Having owned one for some time now, I can tell you that if you keep the foot between 10-20% the car feels extremely normal, just like a regular slightly firm-ride sports car.

Indeed. It’s a pretty short sighted metric. Some places do post 5-60 rolling times, which is nice to know.

Mine’s a White one with black + red stripe wheels manual in Phoenix AZ, so not a match there. But I’m sure that your dad’s cousin probably reflects a non-trivial number of Vette shoppers in the country.

Is the Carrera a 4s? 

Hello fellow spleen-punch wanter! I know exactly how you feel. 

Hey look man, I didn’t mean to piss you off, so I apologize if I took some generalist liberties. Not all the C3s were slow, just the one used in this example. But genuinely, is this the battle you want to fight here?

It kind of does - warranties are expensive and new cars are expensiver. Your income matters highly then. Even if you save and don’t finance, how long is it going to take to get an average new car nowadays if you make $10 an hour vs $60k a year? 

It really depends on how poor I am.

Young and old, cocky guys with more HP than rubber go into the wall.

A guy who grows up admiring his dad’s C3 gets a C7 with 2x or 3x the HP and he just turned 50, and he just wants to cruise and the car jumps at every application of the throttle, so he trades it back in and gets a Lexus? Sounds possible.

I found the amount of power for me exactly right. But ymmv obvs

Don’t know how the counter applies. We all know Hellcats are quick and the C3 was slow, which is the point I was making. 

When I bought my Z06 the salesman had a story about a guy who test drove it half a week ago (I slept on the decision for like, 2.5 weeks before pulling the trigger) who went out and came back and said it was too much for him.

Honestly I think this is the best looking Ferrari I’ve ever seen. It is exactly what I imagined a futuristic car would look like when I was a child, decades ago.

Thomas Donohue is 300% correct, but there’s one other metric for me, and that’s the door slam test.

Are there any 240 volvos scoped for the established budget?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Although the 2nd gen front end is better than the first gen front, which just looked a bit... frumpy.

I know right? What a tragedy....

Yep the difference is they don’t mind, since they make $100 dollars faster than they can light them on fire.