Better yet would have been a Ford dealer dropping off a GT500...
Some people really do have far more money than sense.
Mercedes CLK.
1938 - Started like this:
2 things:
1. 42mpg highway out of a mid-size without diesel or hybrid tech is not impressive by any means.
2. 150hp out of a 1.4l engine is twice as impressive as its MPG figures, if you ask me (and that says a lot)
Get out.
Land Rover LRX
you assume there exists this thing you describe as a "clever bro"
In contrast, a low-end Formula SAE team probably makes about 70% of components themselves (not including engine) and employs 2 crappy milling machines, 1 lathe, lots of hammers and a couple of starving students with dropping grades and only one thought in their heads.
TGUS fix... Take the crew from "The Car Show" and replace the current lineup. Adam Corolla, Matt Farrah, and that other guy. I think that would be great.
Even though the penis "joke" was outdated and lame, I too am an European don't understand at all pickup trucks that size.
Lancia has generally forsaken me. Instead of carrying on their sporting heritage from the Delta Integrale (and of course its rallying predecessors) to produce something which could look like the above, they turned the Delta into a lardy fancypants of fwd crap*. But I still can't hate them because they built the…
Neo-510. Nissan 2+2 notchback FR in the vein of the FR-S / BRZ. Keep it simple and tough, with a light and spry I4, but leave room for a heavier but faster VQ powered variant midlife.
Holden Coupe60, AKA the VE Monaro that never was. Why do you taunt me thus?!?!
I'm curious how much heavier it is and how much crash protection was diminished.