youre acting like laptime matters on a stock gt86, a car that was designed to be fun to drive and overspeed at low speeds and to be aftermarketed to fit drivers needs.
Make Nissan great again
But Miata has the same design principles. Also, this is literally Toyota's first try since AE86. If they make a real second gen they can improve it a lot.
The Japanese economy was booming in the 90s, which means there was a large market of people with money to burn on JDM premium sports cars such as the FD and the Mk.4 Supra. Their economy has been shit ever since the property bubble burst, so it's understandable that they're hesitant to commit to designing and building new expensive sports cars when the market domestically for them will have shrunk dramatically.
Yeah no. They were one of the few auto companies that took racing technology and made it available in their consumer vehicles as can be seen in their earlier days in racing. Particularly in Group A series where the primary vehicle platform had to be at a level where it was ready for racing. They competed against the likes of BMW and Porsche and won.
It's true they take Italian design and engineering as well as German motor design. But the difference is that they made a product that was actually affordable to the general public and not only the elite. An econobox Nissan in the 90's had suspension akin to more expensive cars back in the day.
>maximum delusion
Are GT-R fanboys so loyal to Nissan that they won't admit that the rest of the company has gone to shit and has made nothing else worthwhile in a decade?
Lies.
Nissan... fuck your mom!