Here’s my take.

Don’t convert something to WVO.

I believe the common speed limits in Japan outside of divided highways are typically 60 km/h or less, hence fuel economy testing being done at such a low speed.

Japan used to use plenty of column-shift manuals in things like taxis...

...yeah, I came down to the comments to say that they basically made the Chevy Uplander that GM won’t make any more...

It is actually allowed to be used in the pit lane, as well as limping the car home (something about, if you activate it below 120 km/h, it’s legal as long as you stay below 120 km/h until returning to the pits).

...and the class has balance of performance so if you save fuel, you get a smaller fuel tank and a smaller restrictor on your fueling rig, negating your fuel advantage.

The rulemakers specifically do not want the AWD assistance coming out of slower corners - that was part of the problem with the old LMP1 formula, where RWD non-hybrids were supposed to be able to compete against the hybrids, and just weren’t.

Just do motorcycle rules.

With EVs, with regenerative braking, weight is less important to range than you’d think. (Because regen means you recover the excess kinetic energy on deceleration.)

Battery swapping provides considerable challenges as far as making a safe chassis, and is also not actually road-relevant (Better Place tried it and went bankrupt trying. Tesla tried it, people just used the slower Supercharger network instead).

Here’s the fundamental problem:

G40 road cars were sold, though: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/ginetta/g40/first-drives/ginetta-g40-r

It’s about this:

Warranty status matters for whether it’s replacement or reimbursement, though - if everything affected by the recall is still under warranty, it’s likely that nobody’s had to pay to have the pump replaced (if it failed before the recall, it would’ve been replaced under warranty), and nobody needs to be reimbursed.

My understanding is that Japanese policy is to use Australian coal that’s gasified as the hydrogen source.

Oh, yeah, and that whole thing about air traffic control is another thing.

An airplane’s autopilot is also not a 100% self-flying system, and there’s a reason why there’s two pilots in the cockpit monitoring even when the automation is in use.

That era of Polo’s cluster is very similar, but slightly different.