You used loath when I believe you meant to use love. Loath means reluctant, which Ballaban certainly is.

The LC500 is a luxury cruiser,like an S550 coupe. Nobody is buying that to win any races.

That’s the LC500. That is a halo car designed to compete with the S class coupe.

What kind of annual mileage?

That sounds.....meh.

Watching drivers run through their sponsors after a race is one of the most entertaining parts of NASCAR. Especially when they realize they forgot one when they finish an interview so they use it as punctuation. “All in all I wish we could have had a better race, going to work with the team on pit stops over the next…

Man, I just posted the French Canadian commentary. I think “OOOOOOHHHHHH CRASHUUUUUUU!!” comes out ahead of “OOH-LA-LA LE BIG ONE!!” by a country mile.

The best NASCAR audio is the French Canadian broadcast.

C7 corvette, 991, or Aston Martin V12 Vantage, for all your 7 speed manual needs.

Classy.

Sublime handling, garbage exhaust note mitigated by active sound management.

I’ve heard them in person, with various exhausts. They all sound a mess.

I love S30s, specifically with ZG flares and Watanabes, so Wangan Midnight S30s.

The M2 sounds as good as the M3/4 sounds bad. Also, I appreciate the tall greenhouse. The F8x BMW M cars sound absolutely garbage, which is a shame because they’re absolutely beautiful.

Bald Michelins instead of fresh Pirellis.

I’d have it.

I am a pretty serious Lexus fan. The build and materials quality, the dealer experience, the way the sport sedans handle... Nothing really not to like,except for the fact that the RC, IS, and NX all have seat bottom bolsters too narrow for my thunder thighs.

Yes, but only after they’ve sold enough Camrys, Highlanders, and Siennas to pay for them. It’s priority number 7 at best.

I think about one every day. My wife is on her second. We leased her a 2013 right out of law school. She liked it so much that we leased her a loaded 2.5i Limited when she turned in the first one. The leather is okay. The infotainment is okay. The CVT is unobtrusive at worst. It gets great gas mileage with the 2.5i,…

Most car companies care little about “their credibility as a producer of good sports cars”. Sports cars are not volume sellers. Toyota made it to #1 in global sales without a single RWD manual sports car. The FR-S/GT86 didn’t come out until years after they hit #1.