Currently peering closely at '18 Hyundai 'ECO' Elantra, modrin 1.4L turbo power as (per a few r/tests) can reach 46 mpg: SANS all the MTBF dice-rolls of the $$hybrids/cf. battery weights thus ∑-WT ..and seems to win via studied simplicity with decent design AND assemblage.

Feb will likely tell. (I might have sprung for the used-Veyron .. I could have afforded ~1 week Insurance on that.) Which would have been a Good Deal overall: If..
say, some discovered internal aneurism also had a MTBF of say, ~ 3 weeks. Right?

At least local dealer guy took the hint at once, dropping all the std. BuyMe!- palaver at outset. Love. It. when the turbo 1.4 beats the 2.0L ..
by 0.7 sec 0-->60 ..via exactly the sort of torque as (made Black Shadows immortal.) Such torque as you Need, esp. in econoboxes re those On-ramps etc.

(Yeah too, will Miss the bitchin Gran Turismo handling + ride (longer WB) etc. of the Acura Plutocrat. Sometimes ya just gots to go along with that daily-Illusion, I wot.)

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Carrion..
occasionally it's just something you put in your own trunk, not some spam-in-can adventure in airborne MTBF crap-shoots.. :-)

On inspection of the many retorts to TTAC-on-Hyun. link re the "intuitive" superiority of discs (except in after-effects of salty roads etc. in the Rust Belt and a few other ideas..)
I think I'm convinced that re drums at rear of boring-std cars (Not Hot wheels) ... there is a parallel with cycles, where the base physics is more obvious to test.

Then add-in the quips about actual records of fusslessness (in a truck, another car: both generalized too.) Any cyclist can attest to fact that, given rider-weight transfer on heavy braking, etc, the rear wheel braking is mainly about keeping a small drag (on the already unloaded "rear") merely so it doesn't end up by your shoulder.. a %high of the retarding force is via front wheel, as mere analyt.-geom. would show. Ride two-up or add sidecar? Different. (Lastly: some folks removed one of the pair of Vin. drums at rear: less unsprung weight etc, no difference in racing/braking distances etc.)

While FWD 4-wheel dynamics depend on sophistication of overall suspension, and rear brakes via ABS can help there, I'd go with the reports re light-use reliability over many years + resistance to salt corrosion -vs- discs. (though that's irrelevant to CA.) ie. What Me Worry? I don't think I'll miss the theoretical superiority on a device which won't be for boy-racer adventures; I lIke the idea that you generally Can just forget routine rear-brake *fussing (unless there were an actual factory material or design fubar, natch.)

* I'm folding in the also-general decline in Competence/Period. as regards "servicing". Skipping rear attention except periodic inspection ==> one fewer 'jobs' to have to Inspect-myself later. Y'know? Can skip the added-drag of disks, I guess.

er, What was that about the Perfect and the Good-enough? ;^>
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(Ok, OK..) the magnesium brake-plates for the Shadow didn't 'transform handling' ... either :-0
but they were Purty. :-)

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Faster than a Vantage S.

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Humans and their wet-dreams.. ...