Superb! Just sent you an email with my number and the dates we’re there.  If you can make it down, I look forward to hearing tales of rust and adventure. :)

Neutral: Fuck it. I’m going to the Nurburgring in 2 weeks. Apocalypse be damned.

Why wouldn’t it omit it?  This is about one style of dull crappy ford going end of life.  Not about another crappy ford.

Does anyone really care that this is dead?

David, I’m at the Nurburgring 20-25th. If you find yourself in the neighbourhood, I will pay for laps to see evidence of this fine piece of Americana dirtying up the ‘ring.  

The Lotus, much as I love them, really is just an evolution of early 90s tech.  Quite advanced tech and thinking in parts, for the day, but very far from a modern clean sheet sportscar.  I was desperately hoping Murray would do his hinted £30k light drivers car instead of this.  Awesome as it is, I’m too much of a…

Yes yes yes this is all well and good but the *real* question is how would he redesign a Ducati for track work.

Slaps?  WTF?

I know. Someone said in the post above that simplicity was nothing about cheap. My point was, having rebuilt one of the early ones, they were seriously into cheap by the time the Elise came along.

Take an Elise apart if you get the chance.  Be amazed at how they’ve embraced The Cheap when speccing things.

Ugly munter.

So you’re Jaguar Land Rover, and you don’t hire the guy that just reinvented Aston Martin for the 21st Century.

“Why not just limit the Can Am car’s top speed”

What?  You want a safer Can Am car?  Shhh.  Let us like dangerous things!

You’re talking shit Torch.  It’s a fucking awful looking thing.  None of the elements work together.

Is there anything we can do to stop this happening? That’s 25 truly beautiful, elegant cars that are going to be butchered.

Enough already with the bronco stories.

As a current Lotus owner, you haven’t budgeted enough to keeping it on the road.

2 years. You can do that in 2 years: https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2018-mclaren-720s-performance

This feels less idiots and more on you for buying a diesel car.  But thank you for sharing the rant.  I can and do appreciate a tastefully restrained rant.