You can buy examples all day long for $12k. There’s no reason to pay 4x as much for this.

SAE Gross v. Net HP. That’s probably 480-490 today.

Wait, you actually saw engineering students put together something brilliant? I guess I was always on Team Spectacular Failure.

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Or you can just get a turbocharged petrol engine and have great torque and great horsepower.

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Consumer Reports gave it the worst reliability rating in its class. It wasn’t just turbo failures that plagued the 335is. There were HPFP and injector failures, carbon buildup, valve cover cracks, etc. None of that is cheap to replace either. Not all of these issues are BMW’s fault, VW has been facing similar issues.

The 2.0L is so much more powerful than the old I6. It might be rated at the same power figures, but the F30 328i is a half second faster than a similarly equipped E90 328i. It makes much, much, much more torque too. And even that 2-3 mpg gain is a solid 10-15% improvement.

The ZF8 is absolutely amazing. The BMW variant is easily the best automatic transmission you can get, even better than any dual clutch I’ve driven.

The 335s are cheap because they have a horrible reliability record.

Yes. VW has had great luck selling the Touareg as a Audi, then a Porsche. Why not see how far they can go? There is apparently a market for $200k for a VWs with big engines.

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I probably wouldn’t order the track package. I could just barely swing a base model, so anything to save a few bucks is fine by me. The car is still going to be retarded.

Early adopters will pay a premium. It’s not unique to the Mustang or performance cars in general. Even Foresters had a market adjustment if you didn’t want to wait three months for one.

If you’re willing to wait until 2018-2019, these things should be slightly discounted. Even the Z/28 has money on the hood now.

The takeaway from this seems to be: buy a Prius. Seriously, none of the complaints levied against this apply to the Prius. It regularly beats EPA estimates, the brakes are quite good and the CVT is excellent; better than any other that I’ve tried.

I’m surprised to hear that, the Miata has a really close-ratio transmission.

Mazda — The company that puts a sports car transmission in a truck.

Or, a traditional bike?

I could see Japan making the switch, since they make it pretty expensive to own older cars. Within a decade most of their cars would be RHD. NZ and Australia would probably follow suit since they import a lot of older Japanese cars.