Here's the Stig on his day off. Yes, the Stig drives a Big Healey.

Well, now that that's all cleared up, maybe Toyota will settle with me about their infringement of my brake pedal shaped accelerator pedal concept.

@rxe7en: The Cosmo is a great design. I'd love to see one in person.

@rxe7en: Perhaps true; the Cosmo with its 10A rotary is interesting, but doesn't, for me, make the best use of a tiny engine.

The McLaren MP4/4. While it did have Senna and Prost driving, it also had the Honda RA168e. This little dervish managed to squeeze 800 or so horsepower from 1.5 litres.

The answer is Miata. The answer always is Miata.

@snap_understeer_ftw: Seconded. An extremely capable driver who is extremely capable of keeping his cool. His columns in SportsCar (the SCCA magazine) are very good. By all accounts, he is a great guy and is yet another successful driver who got his start autocrossing.

The line for the right seat for Bill's next northwest adventure starts behind me. I'll take copious pictures, write a glowing report of my adventure, and will take Bill to get a leadfoot tattoo. It would be like a Tiger Beat dream date for 40 year old car nerds, just not weird or gay (not that there's anything wrong…

@Bret: Two beautifully recreated cars. I'm glad I got the chance to see them in person. This is the sort of thing I'd do if I won the Mega-lotto. And yes, I'd drive them on the street with the occasional dab of oppo.

@Bret: The Endurance car has a more stock interior.

@Bret: Fire switch? No thanks, I'll pass on the fire.

@Bret: Love the hind end.

@Bret: Here are the Bonneville Healey and the Endurance Record Healey as seen in the wild last year.

@geistkoenig: That is poorly proofed copy. I met the owner(?) of these Healeys at the Portland All British Field Meet last year. Interesting fellow, with a pair of stunning cars. I'd love to know how Bonneville went for them. The Endurance car (the one without the bubble canopy) has the largest SU carburetor I…

The Healey is a reconstruction of the Bonneville speed run car. I'll post a few pictures in a moment.

@TheAntiCat: Yeah, it's a pity. Porsche's response to this stuff should be a Jeff Zwart shot salvo of beauty saying something like, "Car and Driver never totaled one of our street cars because our aerodynamic design rendered the brakes useless after three laps. Porsche. Functionally Beautiful."

@ManBehindTheDesk: I actually laughed out loud at BBW. The current BMW range has gone beyond acceptably zaftig to a scale almost akin to People of WalMart.

Simple solution: Replace the prancey little horsey part of the Porsche logo with a braying donkey. It is then parody.

Excellent outcome to a stunningly awful story. Chris, you've seen the worst of the car sales biz with your sisyphean Saturn ordeal. I have no doubt you'll sell the shit out of those Nissans, good luck.

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