The aluminum castings on the Jaguar supercharger housings actually look pretty good in person. If they had spent the money on cleaning it up and polishing it that they spent on making the plastic cover it would have looked great.
When the Grand Marquis was introduced in the early 1970s, it was more than just a LTD with slightly different fascias. To begin with, the full size Mercurys were about three inches longer in wheelbase than the corresponding Fords. Mercury sold the Monterey, Marquis, Marquis Brougham and Grand Marquis. Even the best…
Jason, the AMC Marlin looks off because Dick Teague originally planned it for the smaller, Rambler American platform, not the midsize car. I think Chuck Mashigan did the actual styling on the Tarpon concept. George Romney had resigned to go into politics and AMC was run at the time by a guy, Abernethy, who wanted AMC…
Stereotype people much?
Are you sure that you know what “per capita” means?
The oikophobia is strong with this one.
Dorothy Levitt was one badass broad. Cute, too.
Dorothy Levitt (1882-1922), was not only one of the first women to drive an automobile, she’s documented as being the first woman in England to race a car, more than 110 years ago. She didn’t just race cars. She had already been an accomplished horsewoman, and she raced…
Wait, I thought the official Gawker line was that gender is a social construct.
Truly objective journalism does not exist.
“Among old cars, the (original) Lotus Elan is the ultimate, better than the F1. We tried to get its delicious steering feel in the F1 but we just missed it.” - Gordon Murray
Oh, are Jews, cousins to Arabs, whom I’m quite sure you consider brown, now considered white? In Europe before the war Jews were considered swarthy. It’s so hard to keep up with you racialists’ hierarchies.
The font is called Ferro Rosso:
http://www.dafont.com/ferro-rosso.fo…
While I did not get to drive the Elio at speed or on public roadways
Is that a 458 next to it?
The company was killed by other American automakers who didn’t want competition
No oikophobia there, no, none at all.
I guess that means that blues music must be European since the guitar comes from Spain and the harmonica is from Germany.
Perhaps, but New Zealand’s most celebrated racer, Bruce McLaren, had his greatest success racing cars with Chevrolet based engines built in Detroit. The engine shop he set up in the Detroit area still exists as McLaren Performance Technologies - though it has no relation to the McLaren car company in Woking, UK.
But the people who work for government are 100% altruistic and selfless and would never abuse regulations or refrain from admitting they screwed up and making things right.