I think it’s only the lack of low-end torque that makes transmissions a necessity, right?

All I can tell you is first-hand experience with Matt Farah. My 12-year-old son and I drove up to see Matt begin at tire rack in South Bend Indiana for the one lap of America. Son and I happen to bump into Matt and just say hi because we had seen him on the car show.

Didn’t know him before that really much. Just got a selfie with him, and said thanks. He said hey wait a second he goes why don’t you just hang out with us until we head out? So that was pretty cool. Nice enough guy.

Variety.

I think it’s easiest to say what you don’t like.

You don’t like driving around other people that put those around them at risk. Often that is in areas of low quality drivers. Frankly, I find them in US America, particularly commuting situations in dense urban areas.

Likewise, pedestrians and other people that try to share the road such as bicyclist when they encroach your only possible pavement/tarmac areas in such a manner that you are forced to divert your intended progress. So people that walk into intersections, or even jaywalk at parts of the road that aren’t intersections; bicyclist that , they themselves don’t pay attention to the rules of the road.

Yes.

Did you see that crazy man take his creation out on track? Watch the moment Chris Harris, back, slaps him or smacks his shoulder that look on Chris Harris‘s face I have never seen before. It is his eternal car guy coming out at the highest peak of sharing the car guy experience with someone else. That video is crazy amazing

I tell everybody if they want to feel how the car should drive the steering and responsiveness they should try to drive one of these

Crown Signia?

I miss my NC

I have a buddy that came to me and asked me to find him a 500 hp car that he could fit in, he’s rather large. Fast forward to today and he has 2 ZL1s one with 800 hp LingenFelter upgrades, and another one he did himself with 1000 hp.

I’ve driven the Alfa on many Driving events and pushed pretty hard in and out of Canyon roads in California on said events. I did, and Giulia Quad back to back against a Huracan rear wheel drive spider and I couldn’t believe how good the Giulia does when pushed hard

I tell everybody that if they want in my opinion, the best out of the box attainable track car it’s the GT 350. I have not driven the Mach 1 or a dark variant though. I also like the GR 86 but it’s just slightly underpowered to the 350.

As like me, I bought a 2007 hardtop convertible Miata about 18 months ago with only 9000 miles on it. I loved that thing. But really wanted to step up to the C8. I still miss the way they felt on the road.

I was around Gordon Murray more than a few times, and more than a few minutes in April. He is the nicest, nicest gentleman. Not sure what’s up with always wearing Hawaiian shirts, lol. But the T 33 and the T 50 were there. Dario Franchitti was there, taking them out for a spin as well. Lovely cars lovely engine super friendly nice guy

I like driving the super on track. I’ve driven a couple of AMGGT‘s and I’m surprised at how cramped it is inside. Seems more confining than our C8. Nonetheless it fun but I’ll take my C8 over the GT every day. Now the new SL, more seats and convertible might be something great for my wife if we could ever swing one.

I think this car tops my most desirable exterior looking car today. Again, I looked into getting one of these, but dealer mark up and supply constraints and me being old and not sure if I’ll be able to drive much longer kept me from it. But I would stilllove to own one of those

I’ve driven the new 86 on track and I think it’s one of the purest driving cars out there. I looked into getting one of those but dealer markup kept me away.

We had a focus RS for a day once. Very very stiff ride, and confining seats. But a lot of fun as well. Coincidentally that day we visited the now deceased John Campion, his personal collection/garage. To our surprise and John’s surprise, we pulled up and he happened to be driving a focus RS as well. Hilarity ensued. Such a great guy and sad to have lost him to cancer. I have also driven focus and fiesta ST and I think I would probably live with those better than an RS. But I appreciate the RS for what it is.

I really must drive an Alpine!

I’ve had both the Supra and the NSX on road America track and the Supra surprised me the most at liking it c

I used to drive a 1996 Dodge Caravan as a daily driver until a few years ago. Back when commuting existed for me. I would attend Car events all over the place and in those events lots of manufacturers let you drive their cars. I always said once everybody was launched, graduated from college, and on their way, I would get a fun car.

The final two family members graduated with their degrees at the beginning of this year.

I wouldn’t call it a dream car, but I would call it attainable and slightly aspirational. Corvette C8.

From the list above that others put before me, I can tell you that I’ve been in the 911 GT 3 RS on a naval base runway up to 180 mph. I’ve also driven the Lexus IS 500, I just toured McLaren headquarters in woking UK. Also, just rented a 911 convertible from Porsche Stuttgart, they do that at the museum there, and drove it through Europe, but particularly the Alps. I’ve also noticed that Porsche has some driving events that include the Dakar now, and so you can pay a lot less than it would to own it to be able to drive it. Similar to the Ferrari, kind of the predecessor to it, is the FF. Also have driven one of those at a Ferrari event.

In the end, low and behold, I just bought my 2023 Corvette C8. Still a lot of money, in my opinion. But it was attainable. And I needed to get something before I get too old and decrepit to be able to put it to good use.