Do more stuff like this and less political crap and you’ll start to be relevant again! Seriously well done guys. Looking forward to next year.

XR4 is right.

Back in 2009 I bought a one-way ticket up to Seattle to purchase a 1971 2002 sight unseen .... off of craigslist. Turns out the seller was an economics professor at WSU and very accommodating. I did a fluid change on the car and proceeded to drive it down Hwy. 1 to Irvine over a three weeks period. 1,500 miles and…

And do you know WHY Glas was interesting to BMW? ....Because of their timing-belt technology.... and where did that tech end up? In the M20 engine.

Wait ....for your argument of a dying market, you are quoting a three-year-old article that takes dismal sales figures of a dispensable toy during our worst economic time period in living memory? Top that with the fact that the car in question has never been viewed as a real sports car in the first place.

If you are looking for another twin-engined automotive-oddity rabbit hole to jump down (one involving Enzo and Nuvolari), take a look at the Alfa Bimotore. It was built and raced a few years prior to your streamliner here. It had an interesting, but different, drivetrain approach.

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“Call this a thought exercise. No one is sure”

In that case couldn’t someone then argue that they had a more accurate view of reality then?

Snapped this photo of “the old master” a couple years ago. There was some euro hardware around as well....

Perhaps the last 8 years was their idea of an “alternate reality”?

You want sad, go to SEMA. Literally halls filled with them. You enter and everyone perks up. I have had representatives chase me down after I stumbled and appeared to “pause” in front of their booth.

My first job outside high school (circa 2005/2006) was at a Subaru dealership in Montana. Needless to say there was lots of winter fun driving those cars.

Prior to OBD1 everything was perfect. Then BMW started experimenting, until finally perfecting the “driver-behavioral-assist” programming with the OBD2 integration.

Light on details? This was Musk’s INTRODUCTION/OUTLINE, by definition it would be “light on details”. I’m guessing you must have not been part of the conference call post stage time.

I am a big fan of clever car photos that tell a story (Orlove’s bug pic is perfect).

I was more entertained by the rapid proliferation of the Apple/Maclaren story (and its equally rapid “correction”) across the web yesterday.

As a manufacturer you don’t invest as much in tooling to have something like that be only a “demonstration piece”. Your PMNA PR guy’s response is code for ... “I don’t know what those crazy Germans are up to, now ask me how I can get you to review the Panamera ... pretty please.”

Read the headline ..... thought the following.