Weekly Roundup: Taste The Rainbow Edition

It's been a great weekend for a drive. I took my old Boxster out for a run through the Hocking Hills with a variety of far more interesting machinery ranging from a Ferrari 308QV to an original-condition MGA Coupe, plus the various Porsche variants that you see above. One of them really captured my heart; no, it wasn't the one that would fetch just over $1.5 million at an auction.

Imagine that you let some self-styled Porsche racing expert borrow your car for a trackday --- and he money-shifts the engine. What would you do? If you're like me, your first answer is something like this. But the fellow who owns this 993 decided instead to turn it into a Turbo RS clone. The sad part is that you could probably build this car for $75k --- if you started by buying your 993 for $30k. Today, $75k just gets you a plain 993 with low miles. And don't even get me started on what Ferrari 308s are going for. I'll be writing about that in the week to come.

This week, Bark was extremely prolific. Some of his pieces, like his 135mph track drive of the McLaren 570S, didn't resonate with TTAC's practical and prosaic audience. So he explained to readers how dealer inventory cost affects final pricing and told them how to maximize their trade-in value before breaking the Internet with a Taurus rental review.

I did an autocross recap and analyzed the interaction between a Tesla and a motorcycle. That one brought out my detractors in force. If you can call it force.

At R&T, I gave the readers a heads-up about how the brain figures out cornering speeds before asking them to buy their next M6 with just two doors, please.

Next week, I'll be talking about the pricing explosion that seems to be affecting Porsche and Ferrari in entirely different ways. Maybe I'll even talk about the drive I just did --- not much to say, other than it's always great to drive great roads in the company of great people.