I haven’t watched the video yet, but assume that high on the list of criteria were the safetiness of the manifolds and the capability to eject the passenger-side floor panels strategically.

The wreck happened on the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture

This Stig gets it.

Volkswagen was still building the original air-cooled Beetle, and would continue to do so until 2003. It was calling it, creatively, the Sedan

“I understand that I have — at ride height — I have negative eight degrees, give or take, of camber, so I understand that my contact patch…isn’t the best.”

That looks good, even with the sartorial accoutrement.

Excellent - thanks for this!

a massive 460 V8 ... The 7.5-liter big-block was part of the 385 engine family, and in this model year it made 220 horsepower

“Gutter is a tool!”

Thus sayeth Gen X: pffft, whatever.

EDIT: Kinja is a doodiehead.

Some motorcycle exhausts had this, too: there is a perforated metal core that the user wraps in a sheet of fiberglas material. They look like this:

I hope to go down and give Tim’s Changli a real head-to-head road test with the original.

I learned to ride a motorcycle off-road before I learned to drive a car.

I think it looks like an elephant standing on a loading dock.

My MGB was that color (black interior, though) and I had a Kawasaki GPz550 for backup. :-)

MGB (rubber bumper model). It didn’t always work but when it did, it was a lot of fun. It was hospitable enough for what it was, but not super practical.

Wow - that’s a lot of PBB. Thanks!

I want to buy one of these and use it: