Seriously. Y’all just don't get it.

I’m guessing you’re too young to have driven one? Fun fact, lots of old cars are manual, rwd and utter crap.

So you forgot to actually explain anything...

I drove an old Westy van for years that wouldn't do 90 if you threw it off a cliff. It's not as romantic as it sounds.

You know, the internet is vast when it comes to Volvo groups. VOCA and brickboard do stock ones, turbobricks does fast ones, and swedespeed does stance’d ones (mostly fwd). YMMV with getting useful info, but the communities are there.

Sure it does. It uses power from the dilithium crystals to bend the fenders.

Beige snakeskin paint, goofy wheel skirts and an interior texture pilfered from the big golf ball at the Epcot center. I see the 80's retro concept, where’s the new one?

Oil doesn’t ‘break down.’ That’s why we use it as lubricant in the engine. The oil is used up when the additives are depleted, or it’s full of junk like that report in the article. Buy better oil and change filters as you see fit. Not unusual to go through two filters on a synthetic oil fill.

As an engineer, I’m sure you can appreciate that the oil change interval is determined by the oil, not the engine. The oil itself, especially synthetic is just miles better than it was back then. You’re better off skipping the cheap oil, buying better stuff and leaving it in there longer.

A four-speed Borge-Warner RAD transmission adds to the fun factor.

“Are there significant drawbacks to only being able to adjust cam timing based on RPM and not engine load? How advantageous is it to be able to change the relationship between RPM and phase angle on the fly, rather than being bound by physical relationships like Hooke’s law and centripetal force?”

Look man. I get that you think DMC12s are magic or something, but the legions of beetle dragsters say that an RR dragster works fine. 200#’s isn't shit either to dump the frog block. And as for them handling well? Not the ones I got near. Put enough tire on an oxcart and it'll bend a corner. It ain't no Lotus to begin…

Uhhh... 220lbs is an awfully small weight penalty to go from a PRV 6 to a 4V 351C. As you point out, it’s sitting with all that weight over the drive wheels too. DMC12’s are shitbirds when it comes to handling anyway. At least this one can go straight quickly.

Feel in the steering comes from the geometry in the wheels and the steering links. A “good” system will become heavier as the tires load, giving a tactile sense through the wheel as to what is happening. The resistance under load will still bleed through power assist if the geometry is correct

Uh... They already did. Years ago.

You must be shorter than 6’. I was disappoint :(

On it.

Ford learned a lot from the modular engine. The Coyote owes quite a bit to the 4.6/5.4L. They're still neat motors, even flawed.

My NA barely made more power, had one less gear and weighed about the same. It was fun.

I’m your size and I daily drove an NA for years. NB is about the same. Recently rode in a new one and was disappointed to find I didn't fit. Early calls are shockingly comfortable for big tall folks.