Has nothing to do with Chrysler at all. Pretty sure every OEM on Earth does it and that particular switch gear is 100% Alfa/Fiat.

F&F - every “quarter mile at a time” drag race seemed to take 30 seconds, cover 2+ miles, and involve 15-20 gear changes . . . all in a straight line. SO real.

Exactly. It has little to do with a design “easter egg”, it has everything to do with protecting the OEM headlamp market from being taken over by the cheap Chinese knockoffs. If the OEM logo isn’t on it, the quality will be lower and you’ll know it.

Spied during press/marketing photos.

I think we know why that 124 was out from the spy photos:

According to Fiat’s website, it appears the manual trans is only available on the base “Classica” trim level. Did it ever occur to FCA that I may want saddle leather seats AND a manual trans?? Ugh, why do OEMs insist on locked in packages like that. Can’t imagine it’s difficult to offer the “Lusso” with a 6MT . . .

Don’t forget, it also ran on Chanel No 5 once or twice . . .

Seriously . . . it also happens to be the quickest on the list above. If it wasn’t a Chrysler product it would probably get a fraction of the hate. Still a super neat vehicle and awesome test bed for aluminum intensive manufacturing. I’m still fairly certain no other automaker in the world would have built something…

May have something to do with aero as well, those cars aren’t terribly efficient through the air.

Best part of the kit is the A/W intercooler that mirrors the intake manifold design. Great fab work on this one performed by the guys who now run Nth Moto.

So how does that work with respect to the use of “2016 spec” engines this season? Like MB running a new powerplant starting at Monza?

An unintended outcome (or accident) may still have someone to blame, but does not mean it was willful as in the case of VW here. BP was “accused” of putting other priorities above safety, does not mean they set out to have Macondo happen and cost the lives of 11 people, including blowing out oil into the GoM. Here, VW…

BP has a large presence in the American job market as well, didn’t stop the Feds from eviscerating them for an ACCIDENT. This is willful, and whether or not one agrees with all the EPA’s garbage (I don’t) we all know the rules and you’ve got to play by ‘em.

I don’t see anyway that VW doesn’t get the book thrown at them by the US Gov’t. Let’s look at the tens of billions BP was fined for what was truly an accident (Macondo). I know oil companies are all environmentalists’ favorite whipping boy but with VW, we have willful skirting of laws to sell their product. A product…

Hold on a second though. Yes $35B may be a lot, but didn’t BP have to pay similar astronomic costs for what was truly an accident? This was willful by VW and had perhaps a greater environmental impact.

I kept scrolling down, expecting to see the ME-412. Got to number 2, “wow, the 412 is number 1, ni . . . wow”.

Because from my house in the burbs to my office in the burbs, there are no bus lines nor would it make any economic sense to run a direct rail. See the problem with mass transit is that it is not point-to-point for each user. The best it can do is near point to near point and the variability in just “how near” those…

Chrysler owned Gulfstream for awhile in the 80s.

Meh, my WJ averages about 12. And a Hellcat WK2 is a WHOLE LOT more fun than a WJ with a 4.7, haha.

Maybe now, 20 years on. In 1993 the ZJ was THE ute to own.