“Only, exactly, just enough is always too little.” This is a thing I say about automotive manufacturing in general. But with racing this is really true. The problem is that more weighs more. Tougher gears and housings, while making the gearbox closer to unbreakable, adds weight making winning harder. But sometimes it…

As much as Tesla loves to look up stuff and then claim or let other claim they invented it, the Kammback would have been good move for their SUV/van

I said “seems like broke chumps”. They had just paid back their bailout in 1978, but they did not have to look completely like it. And given that Chrysler was in the mindset to introduce a $55K sports car, the M4s/Turbo Interceptor, making a RWD sport coupe off a FWD platform that required only a few parts swapped,…

Better in the snow is debatable. Usually comes down to tires and a judicious foot. You try running in snow on Summer or track tires and its not going to work very well. More efficient at a time when that was not such a big deal. Better handling but not at comparable speeds.

No more so than making a totally differently styled coupe on a sedan platform. You said it yourself, it was a modular platform. Just swap parts during assembly and you can have RWD sport coupes running off the same line as FWD sedans.

Yeah let’s just not really discuss teh MOPAR RWD conversion forteh Plymouth Laser and Dodge Daytona that should have begotten RWD versions of these cars, allowing Chrysler to actually get in the RWD sport coupe game fairly cheaply and no look like a bunch of broke chump during this point in time.

A Viper fish is evolved to make the best proper use of its teeth. A humanoid, more over a human with needle teeth, is NOT. It looks stupid because you know it does not work as an effective predatory adaptation for a land animal.. Being a DrWho episode does NOT excuse that.

The teeth are too danged long. It makes it needlessly difficult to take a good sized bite. More the teeth are needles for puncturing prey not cutting it up like most predators would be. The Creep factor is undone by the “I’ve seen better” factor.

This a seems like the epitome of a bad idea.

1. Stop buying vehicles as “investments”. That is what businesses and multi-millionaires what more money than sense do. Even if you are going to flip the vehicle (Turn around and sell it) on a lease in 3 years, get something you might actually want to keep or at least miss when you do flip it.

It looks cooler than it deserves but somehow just looks happy... and that is all that is required.

Actually with the “breathing holes”, it has a grill and that actually helps it look NOT GENERIC, A demonstrative step up from Tesla’s “we forgot to remove the protective cover before painting” front end.

They thing scream pure function. Just the sort of thing businesses and serious truck users would want. Urban cowboys and soccer moms afraid of driving their very poor driving won’t apply. Not sorry.

I never said the performance of these vehicles was based on their shape. If you know anything about these vehicles, which I assume you think I do not, then you would know better than that.

Your point is not lost on me. But you complaint still adds up to the same thing.

The Veloster N is functionally the i30 N the only real differnece is they look different from each other. It’s like complaining, if rightly, Europe gets the Sirocco and we only get the Golf. Both cars’ performance variants are functionally identical, we just get one body style and not at least get the option of the…

On another car. I would not buy this guy.

I would go with a straight turbo four. Nothing insane. Just a yeoman engine from the Toyota parts bin. A much less expensive platform and vehicle. A bit more room on the interior. The car really should feel much bigger inside, just sitting in it, than it looks.

Yeah sure. Just do NOT let anyone see teh massive gas powered generators and support trucks.