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Yeah that's gorgeous

All I'm reading here is, "I'm not having anywhere near as much fun as I could have" :p

Mine has never changed. I did a hard break-in, as I do all my cars. I changed my oil around the 900 mile mark and put in 5W-30. I'm at about 2000 now. Still max.

Yup. Looks perfectly fine. BMW states a quart per 1500 miles is acceptable and you're well above that, and you're nowhere near a quart low.

Yeah true. Always fun to watch somebody lurch forward and stall at the lights. Or the grinding crunch of a crappy shift :rofl:

So what's the difference between pushing a sequential shifter forwards and backwards, or the ZF8 stick in the center dash forwards and backwards? It's the same thing lol.

One more thing to add, it would be one thing if BMW made a good manual like the STI gearbox, but they don't. They're sloppy shit.

My next car will most likely be a Cayman GT4, and when I spec it, it will 100% have a PDK. Because I have no interest in buying an amazing performance car, and making it worse by making it slower.

I've rowed 13 speed transmissions for most of my career, raced many manual cars on tracks and autocross, the whole "engagement" thing is a bunch of bullshit. There's no difference between pulling a lever back, to pulling a paddle, (except that it's slower) and you can even use the center stick...

Minivans and SUV's and the like, have autos because their drivers don't want to shift. They use their vehicle to haul kids and groceries from point A to point B. It's a necessity. And they don't want to do anything more than they have to in order to get to point B. Sports cars, virtually all...

I do it this way, I leave my garage, drive easy till I get to the interstate on ramp, by that time the car is fully warmed up, on the on ramp I run through the first 4 or 5 gears, not WOT but enough to get a good load on the engine, then I cruise to the first exit, and use engine braking going...

Lol yeah because that's how it works ? 2020 engines can't go in a 2021 car and vice versa. They have different ECU's with different maps, different parameters, etc.

I hope they put a manual in the 2.0 only. Let's see how many "purists" will trade in their 3.0 auto for a 2.0 manual ?

Mercedes is better, no denying that. It would just be nice if they made a set of rules, and stuck to them. Tire rules, track limit rules, bodywork rules, you name it. A car that's legal in March, should still be legal in June. The whole track has a white line around the edge. Over with 4 wheels...

Red Bull wasn't the threat then, Ferrari was. The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.

Because FIA rulings always happen in Mercedes' favor. Ferrari got too close, neuter their engine. Change the tires. Mercedes introduced DAS even though the rules say you can't change the suspension geometry? Allowed. Red Bull's car passed FIA regulations, but they'll change them mid season and...

The fact he's washed up has nothing to do with the fact that they did change them.

Yeah they'd obviously have to modify it to make it road legal everywhere, which sadly means adding weight, but it could be fantastic. An Elise/Exige badged as an MR2. Yes please.

Here you go, mid season changes to benefit Mercedes. https://www.racefans.net/2018/05/10/vettel-pirelli-tyre-change-due-to-mercedes-and-red-bull/

Lotus is selling the tooling for the Elise/Exige. Would be amazing if Toyota bought it and used it as the base for the MR2.