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CTS V-sport curb weight: 3,992 lbs ATS-V Curb weight: 3,803 lbs 189 lb difference CTS is also almost a full foot longer and 2 " taller than the ATS-V. The ATS-V can be had with a manual and in coupe or sedan format. The CTS Vsport is an automatic only sedan. C&D tested both and saw a 12.9 for the CTS Vsport and a 12.2 for the ATS-V. The CTS V-sport put down a 8:14.10 at the Nürburgring which was much slower than the old CTS-V. It's unknown what the ATS-V does there but it was supposed to unseat the prev gen CTS-V's seven second times. https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a5309/go-news-2014-cts-v-sport-nurburgring-lap/ If you want an BMW M3 made in america, buy an ATS-V. If you want a 540i that's made in america, buy a CTS VSport. That's how caddy wants people to see it.

I usually just bring the broken part with me to the store before I buy and they don't charge me the core charge or tax me on the core charge at all. Also it allows me to match it up with the part they are giving me before I buy.

congrats on getting back to running. Any thoughts on swapping it over to fuel injection in the future?

The problem is the age old car flipping problem - in order to make money on a land yacht you need to buy low, and with these cars you really need to buy like $1500 or less low, but the more internet traffic they get the more sellers are going to want to try and extract as much money from opportunistic flipper pockets. I always take the position, only buy cars you enjoy - that way if you take a loss, that loss paid for your enjoyment factor. I have to be honest Clay, I straight loved your copper on copper lincoln, I don't see what you see in the white and green one, but as long as it makes you happy that's what matters more than money.

No it will have worse....corvette show people. :lolguy::gabe:

Today I Learned: Clay likes his man tits perky! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

How is that a bad thing? It's a 541hp twin turbo v8 in a moderately useful body that looks better than the existing cayenne. Is it a specialized track weapon or kid hauler? no. Betcha it's not boring either. Oh did you want off road chops? buy a jeep. the previous gen was at best a soft-roader as well, this is porsche - the best you can hope for off-road is to build your own safari 911. Also, it has a houndstooth interior. HOUNDS. TOOTH. SEATS!!!! how dare you talk bad about it in front of the porka legacy fabric.

So enterprise rents Camaro SS's through their "Exotic's collection". There you can specify a specific car instead of getting whatever car is in a car "class". Unfortunatly the closest one is in Pittsburg, but call them and see if they can accomidate you. You will pay for this experience though (about $150 per day): https://exoticcars.enterprise.com/en/locations/pittsburgh-airport-pit.html Hertz has their "Adrenalin" collection as well. I am not sure on the locations but I have rented a Challenger R/T and Camaro SS though them in Washington DC. It was a little cheaper than enterprise but I think that is because I am a gold member and booked through my company's travel company. Again, you can specify cars since these are special rentals, but you will pay for it (chally was something like $135 a day in 2015). Try calling their local offices and specifying what you need rather than booking through online. Sometimes the inperson people can help you better than the computer.

Constantly with motorcycles and it agonized me for a long time.I still get it from time to time with certain things. I think a lot of it has to do with goals. When I was younger, just having the thing without any set expectation of what to do with it was enough. Maybe my vanity was more valuable to me back then that just having this thing and what is said about me was more important than figuring out a use for it, or I vaguly thought of what I wanted to do, but had no clear path to do it. The thing that changed my mind about the hobby was to stop thinking about the "things" I would just like to own, and instead focus on the experiences I would like to have connected to the hobby. This gave the "project" a more clear goal and focus, energized me more as the reward seemed richer, and made me less connected with the object itself which was usually the barrier to me selling it. I was actually having this conversation at CCC with a friend in reference to my CB750, one of the few vehicles that I still feel represents my ID. Recently the bike has become unreliable and my buddy started calling it "the cobbler's shoes" because I was too involved with my other bike projects to spend any time on fixing this bike that needs a little bit of work to become reliable again. Even though it broke down on me twice yesterday and had my wife cursing me to sell it, I still don't have much motivation to work on it since when it works, about 80% of the time, it delivers exactly what I need it to do plus some. If you want to be excited about the RX-7 again, my advice is to think about something you have always wanted to do in the automotive hobby and set that as your goal, and then use the RX7 to accomplish it. Make the time for yourself to do it, it's rejuvenating.

Is he "more than you can afford, pal"? :lolguy:

Well now that the brand is not captive to sears, They are probably selling a lot more so it makes sense.

So I thought long and hard about that actually. the M2 Competition is still a 2+2 car weighing 3600lbs where as the cayman is a 2800-2900lb 2 seat sports car. I think the M2 kinda ends up doing the same work by accident but in a very different way. While I do think there are some people who would cross shop the two cars, I feel like that back seat would disqualify the cayman for a lot more people as a DD and the M2 for a lot of others looking for a real sports car. I know you were looking at cars earlier this year and probably cross shopped both and bought an M2, but I feel like you are the exception rather than the rule. I know that if I were in the market for a $50K car with a stick I would be cross shopping new M2s with used 911s because I have a kid and a need for a back seat (and I probably would also be looking at camaros and mustangs). The F-type and Supra are a little porky when compared to the cayman too at 3300lbs, but at the very least they are true 2 seaters which gets them closer to being competitors. they are all in the same price bracket, but the price bracket isn't the deciding factor alone, otherwise we would be talking about corvettes and lexus cars and other big heavy GT cars. Which bring up the question: Are the new GR Supra and the Corvette competitors?

Well we are getting into the subjective parts of things. Conservative to supercars, which let's be honest, the NSX was still wild compared to a contemporary ferrari 348 or a lambo diablo, is not the same thing as conservative as compared to civics, cavilers, and basically 99% of the cars on the road. yeah the NSX put a reliable drivetrain and boring interior into the wildest and most technologically advanced chassis they had made do date. hardly "simple", esp since it was the worlds first mass produed alloy bodied car. The Mark III supra had I would say par for the course sports car styling - more overdone than say a c4 corvette, probably on par with pontiac in it's testarossa styling phase. The mark IV supra was pretty understated for the time, except the turbos which were delivered with that giant superbird-esque wing on the back. Sure it was reliable, but sequential turbocharging on a mass produced 90's car is hardly "simple". With a complex (for the time) NA powerplant. Vtech may be de-rigeur now but a DOHC VTECH engine in an era (1995) where most cars still had pushrods was pretty complex. The new type R is a turbocharged tech tour de force from honda. Reliable? sure. complex? you betcha. Also, let's not forget they also had a giant (for the era) shopping cart wing on the back - not exactly subtle. FD RX7 when it came out in 1992 was the antithesis of conservative. It was this wild swooping thing where corvettes still looked like door stops and the next wildest thing was the viper and NSX. It's timeless now, but in an era where it shared the road with ford taurses, third gen camaros, and chrysler K cars - it stood out like a space ship in an amish parking lot. Yeah it's timeless now, because it helped form taste for the last 20 years, we have had time to get used to it and see wilder stuff. I remember seeing my first FD in the early 90's and it was a "holy shit" kinda moment. So it has a meh interior - seems to check out with all the other japanese sports cars with meh interiors. and the outside styling isn't a MK IV supra, but times change, nothing is as "clean" as some earlier designs. The 04-06 GTO wasn't anywhere near as good looking either as the 1964-67 or 68-72 GTO. It's been 20 years - taste change. the swoops and flares and fake vents are as japanese as anything - just ask a 3000GT, or an FD Rx7. For almost all of the 1980's and part of the 1990's japanese sports cars were not the "conservative" styled cars you think they were - they were the trend setters. If you need proof, just look at the difference between a 3rd and forth gen F-body, or a C4 and C5 corvette, or a fox and an SN-95 mustang.

neat project.

Maybe not anything "new", but it didn't lose anything either. BMW made a Z4 fixed roof coupe from 2006-2008 and then abandoned it in favor of a retractable hardtop on the E89 Z4. Now there is a car that fills the hole in the market that the 2006-2008 Z4 coupe left. What are the cayman competitors? the Audi TT, the Jaguar F-type, and...? now the supra. That's one way to look at it. Another might be: as a fan of traditional Japanese and British sports cars that have proper inline six engines, I am glad there is a japanese sports car on the market that pays homage to that layout - even if the engine is a bmw. I mean sports cars are kind of bastards anyway: plenty of traditional British sports cars used american, Italian, and even Japanese power-plants, and the japanese have more than once paid outside firms like yamaha and rotax to design and build engines for them (where did you think the 1jz came from? 3 tuning forks aren't the toyota logo). Also "reliable, simple, conservative" japanese sports car really only describes 1 (maybe 2) car: the miata (and maybe the S2000). Let's talk about all the japanese sports cars that are not simple, reliable and conservatively styled: - NSX - 3000GT VR4 - 300zx turbo - Mark III and Mark IV Supra turbo - Honda/Acura Type R (all generations) - GTR - WRX Sti - Lancer Evolution - Eclipse GS AWD - RX7 and RX8 - Mazda Speed3 That's pretty much all of the japanese sports cars made since the 1980's. I would even argue that the original 240zx was a "complex" car for it's time (1969) with multiple Su carbs and SOHC layout Don't discount your opinion so easily. The used car market drives the new car market more than you think. Subaru and Jeep have both benefited from high used market resale values and as such it has given enthusiasts a voice in steering new products. When the used market saw people taking wrx wagons and stuffing them with STI drivetrains in 2006, Subaru made sure there was an STI wagon in it's next redesign of the car. When Jeep owners complained that the windshield was too hard to put down on the JK, they revamped it on the JL so its way easier now. If your opinion is you won't buy one used, and there are 100s like you - then that makes an impact on new buyers of the car who worry about resale value and the mfg has to make adjustments to the car to both make it appealing to the new buyer as well as the second owner.

I think this is an interesting car, really capable and it fills an empty market slot in being a cayman competitor as well as the death of the Z4 coupe. However, there are two business cases for other cars that I think give context to the Supra Release: the '04-'06 GTO and the 2008 VW R32. The GTO: How much is a name worth really? At this point, with 20/20 hindsight the GTO has shown itself to be a very capable performance sport sedan. At the time however it had two strikes against it - controversial styling and the burden of a well established name, two things the supra is battling as well. My hope is that people will see through the "supra" mystique created by the Mark IV and see the car for what it really is - a capable sports car that offers an alternative to both the proscheophile and corvette crowd. The styling on the other hand is what it is. The GTO was controversial because it was boring, the supra is controversial because it looks like it has a dick for a nose, Either way I can't see it translating to sales. If the dodge charger proved anything - good styling can overcome the expectations of a name, but without it you might have another GTO. the R32: VW made a bold choice in 2008 by offering an automatic only performance car to it's rabid manual transmission consuming fan base (The five car companies with the highest manual take rate by percentage are Subaru, VW, Fiat, Mini, and Mazda). At first the backlash against the car was noticeable, but the tech won out and all 5000 cars sold, usually at a premium. Still, when it came time to put another performance car in the lineup, the golf R, the fanboi's won out and a manual option was available again. Same thing happened with the dodge challenger - all the 2008 v8 models were autos, but the stick returned for 2009. If the car proves it has a viable place in the market, a manual transmission will likely return. If not, I don't see it happening. Personally I love the supra, and I am happy that toyota has decided to be something more than the purveyor of rolling beige oppression and rusty pickup trucks. Having something is always better than nothing and in this case the car is at least something. I hope it sells well.

Something I have seen in motorcycles but not really in cars, is that when they sit for a while the rings will stick inside the piston groves. This will cause a low compression situation but will usually free up after heat cycling, only to happen again once it sits. usually this also means blow by of gas into the oil, pull the dipstick and see if it stinks of gasoline. Scott is 100% spot on though - all you can do is pull the piston out and inspect the rings and cylinder wall. you could also try driving it regularly and see if it clears up on it's own.

I went through fitbit flex's like candy at one point. Had 3 of them, all replaced by fitbit with new ones under warranty and then bough a new one when out of warranty. It was maddening but I really liked having something track exercise for me instead of me doing it manually. I bought a fitbit Blaze watch when Fitbit was blowing them out on clearance to make way for the Versa and Ionic. I have had mine since november 2017 and it hasn't failed once. I bought my father one for xmas as well and he broke his charger under warranty and they replaced the whole setup with another watch and charger and he hasn't had an issue since. I bought my wife a versa in October 2018 and it does twice as much stuff as mine does and hasn't given her a single issue yet. I have looked at the Ionic several times and I just can't justify it. For starters I don't want a GPS watch - most of my exercise is gym based not outdoor based and also I don't want something tracking me when I leave my phone behind. I don't need my watch to pay for stuff or read the times, I have a real computer for that (and a phone). About the only cool thing I think it does is store 300 songs and pair direct with blue tooth headphones, but my wife's versa does that as well. At $250 it seems pricey, but isn't the series 4 apple watch like $400 and the S3 like $300?

probably for the same reason the ATS-V wasn't a huge seller either - it's a v6 turbo sedan. The sedan market tanking notwithstanding, my guess people who want a "sporty" V cadillac want a big ol' honking v8. Historically speaking, buying anything technologically advanced from GM...cough...northstar...cough...is a hit or miss proposition as well. Anyone looking for a sport sedan with a caddy badge and a TTV6 is buying the used ATS-V's for sale in the mid $30Ks (even with a stick!), and anybody that is looking for a comfy cadillac with all the bells and whistles but with no "V", already bought a DTS 10 years ago and is just biding their time in line for the pudding cups at the nursing home.

If you just want something to count steps on, read texts, and control the music on your phone - can't go wrong with a Fitbit watch. I don't want to type messages on my wrist, I just wanted something that covered all the fitness stuff, let me read my txts, and let me know when someone was calling when my phone is in another room or in a gym locker. It has worked well for me so far and wasn't as expensive as an apple watch or any of the other more fancy watches.

I actually saw that car in person about a month back. It real life it has a presence that the pics don't capture. Personally I wish they had left the Ferrari badges off since it isn't a replica of any Ferrari or even a cohesive design study of one.

Also look at the Chinese made cameras. I have several from several different MFGs and they all do image stabilization, 1080p, and 4K, and every one of them was under $100 with accessories. The one I just got from microcenter was like $40 on sale.

Nice!

not sure that is the original Sandpebble beige for the car - IIRC his car has a mural on the trunk too of the coyote and road runner.