I would love to see this turned into a real (working) off-road machine, but I fear next year there will be another, even worse pile of rust and rot that will be irresistible and we’ll get another epic heroic tale of getting to Moab in something that is essentially four wheels, two pieces of rusty angle iron, a length…

With only one race to go by it’s kind of hard to tell, but I suspect it is more due to experience with different disciplines.  Jamie Chadwick has been racing F3 cars and that experience showed in a difficult wet qualifying session.

You’re right there.  Minimal expenditure (well, for BMW, not when you compare it to my weekly shopping) and a bunch of people are going to be dropping 6 figure sums on these.

I agree with you there, maybe I’m just used to modern cars doing more with that front end and the back doesn’t seem to follow modern aerodynamic thought. That fan rendering captures the rear end better.

You have just described the way to watch virtually any action movie, but you missed out the bit that involves alcohol to make the whole experience easier.

Toyota La Ferrari

I’m disappointed, no-one suggested a 30-year old, niche-market, left-field choice that doesn’t quite fit the brief but is too cool to pass up on and comes in a rather fetching shade of eugh.

But that’s not a big and dumb fixed rear wing, it changes the angle and probably the height depending on what the car’s doing, kind of like how a cat’s tail lets you know what mood it’s in (probably murderous).

I think those 1800 people should have talked to each other while designing it, not each drawing one line.

*Yawn*

The “do not actually use this engine” clause is just the sellers putting some level of deniability between themselves and the buyer’s entry in the Darwin awards for a supersonic Miata fireball.

I had a Mk1 Leon Cupra, every time I got into it after driving another car I would a) nearly stall it as the bite point of the clutch was just slightly off the mat, and b) nearly put myself through the windscreen due to the aggressive bite of the brakes.  Loved that car, though.  

I think it did, it was on the roof of something.

Popular lore tells us that a cow can jump over the moon, cows believe this propaganda.

Ooh, the new Lotus Esprit, forever one of the great cars we never got.  It will always remain great because it never got a chance to prove otherwise.

Oh, we have.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we went back to red flag now, is there anyone who hasn’t had an off-track moment in the last few laps?

I always had “a few” described as more than a couple, less than a score.

Sitting in the drivers seat and working out if it will support my bad knee is the ultimate litmus test, but I also need to feel “connected” to the car, I need to feel like my inputs are the things that make the car do what it does.

And the way you’d never be able to close the hatch with that gas strut in the way.