About a couple of years ago I got to drive a Spanish-built Santana Samurai with a 1.3 litre engine and 5 speed manual. It was incredibly slow, but great fun to drive.

#becausebusiness

It is not that kind of double header. They just do two racing weekends consecutively at the same track.

Wow! Congrats! You bought the best handling sports saloon in the market.

Smoothness points to no.

I’d go with a Fulvia Coupe too, it is a beautiful car to behold.

I understand the unicornness. But this makes little to no sense at all.

You know what, you are probably right. As long as the engine is interesting and has more than four cylinders I am in.

This. Why would you want to dig the grave of something that is barely alive? Surely you should be setting your sights higher...

My I6 is just perfect. I wish every car I own from it had a similar engine.

None. Everyone remembers Lancia for its exploits in the mud.

To the informed buyer it does, but to most people a certain badge still carries cachet because quattro and rallying and group b monsters.

This makes a lot of sense.

You could argue that in this case it’s the cheaper car which benefits from the more expensive car engineering, not the other way round. Like how the Passat used to be a cut price A4.

This. No invented luxury brand except for Lexus worked, and many of the storied ones failed too.

Renault’s are not big or inefficient enough for the US...

It won’t. The US wouldn’t understand it. And anyway C-segment and above was Nissan’s territory wasn’t it?

Except that it was a Nissan Primera.

That sounds like a great plan! Oh wait, Alpine...

Exactly, stop beating the dead horse. And eventually include Alpine too.