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:lol: Your manual driving skills must be pretty bad if you'd go "1 to 2 seconds slower in the 1/4 mile" with a manual transmission Supra.

On my Jeep forum, this exact subject came up and it was determined that it's as easy as disconnecting an antenna wire on the back of the head unit.

There's a guy on YouTube with a twin turbo Mach 1. The car is extremely fast, even as a 6-speed car. I believe he dynoed 900+ to the wheels. Car is basically stock other than the turbo kit.

I like the current S550 much better as far as looks. And no, I'm not an S550 owner. Personally, I'd take a Mach1 over the new Dark Horse.

I read that a few days ago. It's really interesting. Engineering Explained has a pretty good YouTube video on it.

You could, but for me the biggest part of what makes mountain/canyon driving fun, you really need a manual transmission. Don't get me wrong, I know there are guys that use the M3P for all kinds of stuff like drag racing, auto-x, road course, etc....but that's not something that I'd be into with...

I'm guessing I have a few years on you, so I'll tell you this---i started drag racing in 1987 with my 5.0 Mustang. I was also a stupid kid who street raced all the time. Today, I don't street race and I only occasionally go to the track. Englishtown shut down, so I'll occasionally go to Atco...

Me too. I've liked them since day one, but had no interest in owning one because no manual. I actually toyed with the idea of buying one and having it manual swapped by that company (forgot the name) who successfully completed a manual swap, but I decided against it mostly because I didn't want...

Exactly. It means practically nothing to me. As long as a car has enough power to make it fun for me, I'm fine with it. I guess everyone has his own level of performance that is acceptable, I'll acknowledge that much. For me, something like a GR86 just seems a little too anemic. And honestly...

No, it's much more than that. Guys like you crack me up. If 1/4 mile is all you care about, for about the same money, you can just get a Model 3 Performance. And to make a Supra match that performance, you need to spend a lot of money on mods. And once you go down that rabbit hole, you might as...

Yeah, like Tesla dorks. They live for 0-60. It means nothing to me. Most car guys know that a sports car is much, much more than a 0-60 car. Either way, I consider the Supra as an average 0-60 car in the world of sports cars. It's not slow, but I don't really consider it all that fast either...

My MT Audi is rated for 32 mph highway. I can get that on road trips, but I have to stay out of the boost. I can't help myself, so I normally get like 25 mpg. It's just too much fun to drop a gear and feel the boost.

I've seen .3 to .4 seconds, but who knows for sure until we see instrumented testing. And honestly, who cares? Any car that can get to 60 in under 5 seconds is plenty fast for me. Maybe because I'm not a boy racer. Seriously, if 0-60 was important to me, I'd buy a Tesla and call it a day. My...

Same can be said of several cars. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the upcoming M2 will be the last one available with a manual transmission....and I wouldn't doubt the last one made with a gas tank too. Personally, I've been considering building up a fleet of manual transmission cars...

Gotta disagree. Many enthusiasts will seek out manual tranmission cars just because they enjoyed them so much over the years. And I'm sure we can both agree that the supply of manual transmission cars will be much less than automatic versions of the same car. That's what drives values up. It's...

Drag car? Sorry, I was talking about street cars. If I was building a dedicated drag car, I also wouldn't want a manual transmission.

My buddy with a Tesla Model 3 told me that 4.0 seconds is too slow also. He should know, I guess.

That's pretty much guaranteed. Manual transmission cars (of many different kinds) will sell for a premium just because they are manual transmission and there will be far fewer of them available compared to automatic transmission cars. There will always be people like me who strongly desire the...

Lots of us do. It's about the experience. The connection between man and machine. If you don't want one, then you either don't understand that or have never really experienced it.

Personally, I don't think EVs are the be-all, end-all solution to saving the earth from the apparent devastation of increased global warming. Will they help? Probably. How much? Who knows. There are so many other non-motor vehicle sources of hydrocarbon emissions that I don't really think a...