It’s damn sure closer to a  F1  P1 car for the street than Ferrari ever got.

I’d like to compare this car to my 2007 Audi RS4. For a couple years, when the SS was first announced with a manual transmission, I was thinking, “wow that looks really cool, but I already have a 4-door sedan with a V8 and manual, it would be redundant”. Well, it turns out (surprise) that’s not the case.

Check your info- the 2015s also had the MagRide suspension.

Me too

“A Mitsubishi Evo will even have a front-drive bias most of the time.“

It’s important to distinguish between clutching as a torque transfer medium and clutching as a torque equalization method. The ATTESA-ETS Pro rear active diff is similar to the Mitsu Evo AYC rear diff (Evo X USDM) and Audi Sport Differential (Audi B8 S4, S5) in that a “normal” mechanical open diff is connected to the…

What truly makes this car special and irreplaceable is the AWD system. The only other one on the market that comes close is (no surprise) on the WRX STi. The system on the Focus RS doesn’t come close: The Evo’s system is designed for competition and winning rallies. The RS’s system is designed to impress hooligans by…

The width of the Focus RS is wrong- it’s 71.7 in. I think you’re using the width including mirrors?

Necro-replying to my first-ever Jalopnik comment(!!):
I have, in fact, been GT-R-ing my kid to school for the past two years and counting!!

Oh my God.... a three MILE *dirt* road?? That sounds like heaven to me!!

Yes, absolutely. We just moved last year, and basically my main requirement was at least a 3 car garage that couldn’t be seen from the street. At our previous house, we had a 2 car with a house on a corner of a main road on a steep hill, so there was nowhere else on the property to park cars without directly blocking…

Miata soft top... goes up in 3 seconds manually one-handed, and you don’t have to stop driving or even take your eyes off the road. I’ve operated the top at up to 40mph so far. Not to mention, if it’s raining and you’re on the highway, you don’t need to put the top up at all, the rain won’t go in the car if you don’t…

I laugh when I read stories like this about ergonomic/spatial suffering in the new Miata- not because I’m mean, but because I realize how truly *lucky* I am that Mazda literally went and built a car for me exactly. And I can’t thank them enough for that. In other words, I understand this car isn’t for everyone. But…

Hear, Hear! I installed the skip-shift eliminator the day after I got mine!

Whoops, guess I should have read this article first and put my traction control reply here (https://jalopnik.com/1795146622)

I’m a bit late on reading this but: it was really cool to see the adjustable traction control included on this car. I’ve been interested in such a system since I first read about it being included on some versions of the Lotus Elise/Exige/211/whatever. There, it was basically a knob that adjusted the veracity of the…

I take it you’re not married? :P

Because the child was implicitly trained by Mom not to respect it because Mom doesn’t respect it either.

If this were a Russian dashcam, none of the cars visible would be trying to reverse or almost crash into each other trying to escape from the danger-free scenario they are sitting in. Russians would just sit and then proceed through the intersection as normal.

I think you’ve read me wrong. It’s not about being anal or fastidious or controlling. I don’t know if you have kids, but I’m really trying to say that you don’t have to give in to the image that your car will be ruined once you have to transport kids around in it. I actually thought that’s what would happen to mine-…