Mid engine is not for weight distribution. Mid engine is to keep the polar moment of inertia low, making the car change direction faster.

I was hoping for the badge to look slightly differently:

Yeah, but I wasn’t talking about blower bentleys, I was talking about Speed Sixes. Blower Bentleys are iconic but didn’t really win anything. Certainly not Le Mans.

So what you mean to say it was exactly like all other gt cars that won le mans before? The GT40 was a racecar first and foremost, and you can’t convince me the pre-war Bentleys weren’t constructed as racecars first, roadcars second.

First and only thing I could think of.

they look like shit, they are more cramped, and the lack of efficiency is not offset by any other redeeming values. You claim increased versatility but fail to substantiate. They usually have less interior space and usually offer no more off road capability compared to their sedan counterparts

Sedans will rise again. A high seating position might be more comfortabele for people who have trouble standing up, but those people are either old or unfit and therefore uncool. I’d rather have a car which is basically impossible to enter for olds (and I have).

I’ve driven one. They’re wonderful wonderful cars.

I like Ilyushin because of their neat flat-four engine arrangement (and yes I also like the VC10 for the same reason)

“low and slow” for some reason annoys me a bit. Neither is an accomplishment, and actively saying your car is lowered and not going very fast because it is lowered takes away from the intented purpose of pure aesthetics, form over function, and a bit of humor. For some reason I find that sticker insisting on itself.…

Please. You’re misreading stuff on purpose. It was not an example of what products are marketed towards whom, it was an example of the failure of your statement that ‘lifetimes of experience’ would result in the knowledge on what the best possible product for a given type of grooming would be and that no advice by men…

Your entire line of argumentation was crap, and I gave a valid real-world example where your reasoning failed. I don’t care about your wife and I especially don’t care about your wifes personal hygiene. Keep that shit to yourself.

Counterpoint, women continually get offered a razor that’s the same as the mens razor from 5 years ago, but painted pink for twice the price. Women still buy the razor marketed towards women. In spite of all their collective lifetimes of experience, they buy the inferior, more expensive product because it is painted…

you know, I bought a ‘fucked up’ car as well. a stripped, caged, bestickered, fartcanned (although it is a proper spaghetti exhaust), and lowered 205 GTi 1.9 with a hot cam. It’s done 200k km, probably none of those with any semblance of restraint. It’s uncomfortable, loud, and it makes people either frown or smile. I…

On a related note, I got the hang of inducing a bit of lift-off oversteer in my 205 GTi when navigating tight corners. I am enjoying this, but I have the nagging feeling that this rise of confidence behind the wheel will have a sharp and expensive drop.

Shiny valve covers aside, Jag’s history with straight sixes is pretty terrible. Sure, the 3.4 XK6 was nice. The bored and stroked 3.8 was good as well. Then they decided ‘fuck it’, bored it up to 4.2 and didn’t even bother to make the cilinder head fit the cilinders. They then kept it that way for 20-odd years. Just…

The most beautiful depends on personal preference, but you can’t argue Lancia created an exceptionally clean design with achingly perfect proportions for the Aurelia B20 GT.

Yes. Because if you hit a cyclist with a car, the cyclist dies. If you hit a car while riding a bicycle, the car has a minor dent, maybe a scratch or two. And people are insured for that kind of stuff. The disparity in consequence puts the onus on the car driver.

Are those Proxes R1Rs? Aren’t those the crappy version of the R888 you actually want?

I’ve got a Peugeot and I’m feeling pretty damn smug right now.