The car actually faired pretty well. It lost a few windows and has some new dents. But it appears to track straight and run fine. If not for the minor inconveniences of no truck, no trailer, tools scattered over a swath of Pierce County, and a flagging desire to tow through winter driving conditions, we'd be at…

The tow operators helped us remove the roof and dragged Pujo! up to the road. At this point traffic really slowed. Hasn't anyone ever seen a $500 Peugeot race car before?

Here's what Pujo! looked like in the trailer. Yes, the wall on the right is the floor. The trailer bounced the Pug around like a drumstick in a bag of shake'n'bake.

Profoundly disappointed but very happy our team is all in one piece. Pujo! was delivered from the triler by C-section and drove home under its own power.

I'm sold. Nice car, with an awesome engine, at a decent price. I've been waiting for the car companies to bring out a "standard performance car" product for a while - this is as close as we've come.

@TBM-Fan: Then this must be some feckin' aswesome CGI

@LucidRalphWiley: Is that you tapping your foot?

@milo_carrera—eyepatch-free since 1982.: I used to say that my '96's R package was actually not installed, but the prototype Z-71 package was put on instead. The car sat so high that it towered visibly over my '92.

As the driver of a '96 Miata, I can safely say that the description of the '94 is accurate. We '96 drivers, on the other hand, are the true connoisseurs of light weight sports cars. Those '94 drivers are philistines with their six fewer horsepower and interior rear view mirrors that are affixed to the windshield…

@solracer: If the Solstice puts up with the abuse ladled upon it by SolMonkeyRacer while still staying together, it must be good.

A flood of youthful memories from 70's summers spent in Laguna Beach has washed over me. My dad had one of these in orange. We'd tool around SoCal in it, with my styrofoam boogie board in the way back making a squeaking racket against the vinyl interior.

This car has tons of curvy lines. Can't wait to see it in person, and see if it's busy or elegant. Wonder what the M version will do to differentiate/macho-ify itself?

This Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey votes Pug times infinity. These things are bizzarly engineered and elicit as many tears as smiles. Peugeot does, however, have a great idiogram instructing one to "Read the F**king Manual"

I love my girly little Miata. Girls also love it and enjoy going for rides in it.

It's a pity none of us Monkeys are Cheese Eating Flying Surrender Monkeys; we would have had that 750 manifold off in no time. Opposable toes and experience working with French engineering (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) have made dealing with craptacularly cramped confines comfy.

@elwood: Indeed, Ayrton Senna, Don Garlits, and Richard Petty could be morphed into one human and set behind the wheel of the Chevelle and I'd smoke him in the Audi.

Murilee mincing tuner cars; need video. Kudos on the photography and on making a valid comparison between a Chevelle and an Audi.

Splash! That was the Matte Black craze jumping the shark.

John Galt could save Detroit. First we have to find Atlantis...

The '88 924s with the M030 package was a deadly stock class autocrosser back in the later 90's.