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My son might go for a tune purely to delete that auto start-stop.

Just as the customers are emphasizing "drivability" rather than risking reliability for the ability to claim that they pushed their car to "11"!

My e90 M has a DCT and I don't see the point in doing this. Am I missing something? The rev matching is nice sounding, but far more fun with the 6MT in the 2025 GT and the S2000.

My 2011 M3 didn't come with a spare (or a place to put it), but that didn't prevent me from buying an extra wheel that hangs on the garage wall with a mounted tire in case I get a tire failure catastrophic enough for the tire goo to be insufficient. It is nice that the Mustang actually has space...

You don't need two spares for staggered. The spare will never be the width of either tire anyway. It's the outside rolling circumference that matters, and the Modern Spare listed above works great regardless of wheel size.

Not necessarily when there are electronic limiters involved. My e90 M can with Pilot SuperSports, rated at 186MPH. Limiter is 150, but with limiter delete it gets into the very high 190s...The car is capable of more than the tires it came with, even if the manufacturer was using the electronic...

And all this time I was thinking it had more to do with aerodynamics, final drive ratios and available horse power...

Usually the case for CAIs. Are we supposed to think that the manufacturer spent all of that money on R&D and left the vehicle with an unnecessarily restricted intake or exhaust that could easily get more HP? Gains will be minimal if they exist at all.

Yeah, my son never complains about these things with his 6MT...

Yeah, but it's so difficult to plug in a cord... :)

The decision to make the NSX a hybrid was PRECISELY what killed it. That is the anti-thesis of what the NSX was about. I hear rumors of a relaunch of the S2000, but if it's a hybrid/EV platform, it will suffer the same fate. Hybrid NSX is like doing a "Mustang II" to the platform. It looks...

Also, Ford increased the MSRP and stopped giving the 6MT at a discount (they now give the auto "for free" which means paying more for the manual). That increased the price by almost $10k from 2024 to 2025 even before possible tariffs enter the picture. I think that cracking the system to allow...

It doesn't suffer as much from "extra car" syndrome as many. Try a Miata or an S2000. I struggled to even get a 27 inch computer monitor home in my S2000. Didn't fit in the trunk and scraped the inside of the hard top when I put it on the seat. That being said, you do have a bit of a point...

I knew a surgeon who got into flipping Ferraris due to this. He waited years to get the entry level purchase, but once he did, he was able to move up the line and buy the more desirable models-he'd keep them about 6 months then flip it for far more than he paid. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I'm not sure that had anything to do with having a woman in charge. The problem was that Honda forgot what the NSX was about. It was NEVER intended to be a high tech show platform, it was intended to be a grounded driver's car. The second Gen NSX did EVERYTHING wrong in that aspect, even if it...

These were not only high quality, they were the only mats made for my S2000. TuxMat is softer than Weathertech, but fit just as well. Not sure if it will be as durable, but covers the problematic ridge where the carpet wears through and rips. Good product, on par with Weathertech.

Yep. With everything going hybrid and EV, and V8s disappearing from the market, my son is seeing his 2025 GT as potentially his "forever car". There's a precedent-I still daily drive a 2003 S2000 and alternate on occasion with my 2011 e90 M3. Nothing wrong with keeping a great car until you...

Hey now, the tools on the wall are in perfect focus!

So far my son and I have just listened to the lovely V8 soundtrack!

It's not that bad. My Jerez black M3 doesn't show dirt any more than any other dark color, although it is a lot harder to keep clean than a white/gray finish.