Renault wasn´t ecatly desperate to transform the % into a transporter beacuse... they had the Rapid/Express, based on R5 underpinnings.

Oh, come on. I grew up in the 1070s and 80s, and diesel passenger cars were quite distinguishable by the bluish smoke that came from their exhaust. Not rolling coal quality, but visible from afar. And don´t get me started on trucks.

Ha... Kia even stole their design chief from Audi.

B itter was/is an independent company with coachbuilt/spiffed up cars on GM platforms. Their fortunes are another sad tale in itself. Mostly, because after a near- bankrupt the following cars took too long to get finished, so after a few copies GM discontinued the platform they were based upon.

Funny how everyone agrees on the point that Opel/Vauxhall has always been a clusterfuck of bland boredom on wheels. Speaking from a German and thereby slightly Opel- centric perspective here, though.

IIRC the Probe II shared its underpinnings with the Mazda MX- 6, didn´t it?

As to the Kabinenroller:

This needs a Michel Vaillant livery! Vaillant all the things!

You have a point there. The strechted airport limousine, maybe?

Time for a hot- rodded Mordor variation.

Nissan are doing their best to make Panoz angry. First the rabble about the Deltawing, now they are building their own front engined Le Mans racer. Lawsuit coming in 3... 2... 1...

The Toyobaru twins basically are great, they are just having two major problems.

The BMW i8 chassis has everythin in it to become the next Stratos. And if BMW don´t feel like maybe Mr Glickenhaus will get interested in rallying all the things sometime in the near future? One can hope, right?

Have BMW build the first electric neo- Stratos rally car. The i8 chassis looks very promising already.

Always loved the basic design language of both the Dialogos and the Thesis. Slightly, but not blatantly retro.Headlamp and rear lamp tretment made them stand out. Both would have needed just a few crisp creases in the sheet metal to really make it work. At the end of the day the concept was too bubbly- smooth and the…

The PRV was originally intended to be a V8, but then the oil crisis hit. So they lopped off a pair of cylinders for better gas mileage.

Beg to differ- the RX-7 more or less was Mazda´s take Porsche´s 924/ 944 styling cues, fishtank rear glass and all. Just look at an Islero´s rear and you´ll notice that it has but one thing in common with the mazda: a pointed front clip with flip- up headlights.

Hm... I have a gut feel that it will be some lightweight, gravel oriented weapon. I mean... Mazda just showed an offroad Miata, Ariel have just presented an Atom style skeletal buggy.. so I´d expect something in this vein.

How FUCKING innovative! How fucking MURRICAN! innovative! Anyone ever watched the news on TV?

Nissan seem to do everything to piss off heir former allies at Panoz.