The late '80s Countach deserves all possible scorn because it was actually a sort of a pretty car once, back in the mid '70s before they started piling widebody kit onto widebody kit and eventually ended up with that monstrosity.

I could see the nose actually working on a clean squarish SL with a low hipline but for some reason it was grafted onto an R320 via Mansory.

That nose is still amateur hour, not to mention kind of sad coming from a manufacturer without F1 ties since 2009. And why does it have huge air intakes behind the doors if it's front engined/why does it have four miles of hood if it's mid-engined? The best parts are the GT-R's greenhouse and C7's taillights.

I'll have mine in dark blue please.

I honestly would've gone full-on early 90s retro and given it its flip-ups back.

Aside from F1 which has an obligation to be the fastest I'm more bothered by uncool cars than a lack of outright speed. Things like Daytona protos are the Crocs of motorsports.

Watch him be an amazing enduro guy as the king of 8/10 pace. And/or have unbelievably bad luck with machinery like in his McLaren days.

Why would you focus on your decades-old flagship franchise when you could be making licensed crap you own none of the rights to?

The problem is having ballast you can literally cast into the car's floor is always better for performance than having that same weight around your driver's gut because you end up with a lower center of gravity. So no matter the mandated minimum a lighter driver is always a boon.

Citroën will bring this handsome little fellow to this year's Beijing Auto Show, the DS 5LS R Concept which, as it turns out, isn't a camera but a car. In fact, it's the performance version of the DS 5LS which is exclusively sold in China.

It wouldn't be an SL if it wasn't implausibly heavy.

The silver squiggly is a B so I'm assuming it's the Ring Brothers logo?

There are two decent-looking Panteras on eBay right now for under 50 grand. Prices are going up (there was a point here where if you wanted something with a Mustang V8 a Panty was cheaper than an actual 'Stang) but they're neither rare nor expensive yet. (I'll concede that if you have to cut up a Pantera at least…

Man would you ever have thought, playing GT2 and comparing Mitsu's line-up, which at the time was huge and included so many enthousiast models you could easily do an all-Mitsu career run (Mirage-FTO-Eclipse-Evo-3K/GTO) to Subaru's (clown car, 12 different Imprezas, uncompetitive Legacy) that 14 years later Mitsubishi…

The whole Mazda lineup is rather angry right now though, and so far the Miata has always fit the company image at the time of its introduction fairly well. Just for laughs:

I'm digging the 'stache

I'm feeling really good about myself right now for identifying the Bisimoto 911 from just the header image. I'd like to say it's because I spotted the watercooled engine in a vintage body, or the vertical quad exhausts or even the turbos but nope, I just recognized the shade of blue.

You say unrealistic like it's a bad thing

Car has a new Pontiac 350 4-barrel according to the ad. Supposedly the period correct actually-a-355 one (I'm going entirely off wikipedia here). Would make the most kick ass cycle racing support vehicle ever. NP.

What's amazing about the Focus is the mk1 was so bold and clean (in Euro trim) you could roll it into showrooms tomorrow and in some ways it'd look more modern than the current one (just don't look inside).