The UAZ 452 series is one of the oldest designs still in production, is a 4wd body-on-ladder frame van, and has a brake master cylinder mounted sideways as the only real thing under the "hood".

The Land-Rover Series has the engine and transmission shifted left for reasons of balance against an RHD driver, control set, etc. As a consequence, for many years LHD markets had replacement springs specified to higher arc on the left side; other than that the springs were identical.

President Nasser of Egypt once was involved in a plan to create an "All-Arab People's Car" out of a British microcar called the Frisky.

These are the ones that came to mind, almost a Quadrophenia if you will.

A driver was tired of going to the pump to pay

I like Hurricane Accipter, and I suspect the people weird enough to buy an Edsel at the time would have too.

Not current, but the former East Germany. Why? No so much for social reasons as practical ones. The two primary types of East German auto available were two-stroke and might need a good whole-car shake in the morning, and the Trabant didn't even have an adjustable seat. Anyone of smaller than full adult male size…

A woodsmoke powered car is hard to drive too.

Enzo!

I guess I can't borrow that Arfons guy's car, but someone who can might try an "in any kind of car" Challenge Accepted. Or is this the car for only lonely people? They do say envy is a Green Monster...

Godspeed, you beautiful mad bastards.

This is one of "those engines" that I keep a mental note of to link people and mess with them. Gotta love a sheet-metal block.

Well, it's arguable that any tech out of the mainstream is so for one of two reasons: either being far advanced, or being a dead end that works "pretty well" in a vacuum. Ultimately, the CoBra isn't that advanced, just different in a series of ways, not all of them good. Maybe it would have served as impetus for light…

Cortina rear light ALL THE THINGS.

Yes. Because those who were in Driver's Ed clearly didn't drive anything up to that point and haven't driven anything since.

I meant in the more traditional "Mad bloke occupying a cottage on the edge of a village somewhere, feeding the birds, drinking tea while watching the rain, and getting weird about cats and sweaters" sense. Which would be "queer" in a much older sense of *that* word, too.

But then the goggles and scarf wouldn't look right, and I'd have no place to mount the machine guns.

It's a good thing no recent NZ films have had CGI or action hero bits in them, then. So nice to have a purist film industry that films things true to life. Without, say, elves.

I should upload mine from Forza 4 to oppo. I found that leaving it stainless but simulating a tinted wash or wrap could look amazing. I used the two-tone paint tool, set the primary color to the stainless, and did a dark brown tint to reflect off-angles. Quelle Futuristique.