“Oh look how sustainable I am in my new flying car”

Oh this road is magic! Hmmm, what’s that rumbling coming from the back end?

:O... You dump your bacon grease? I pour it over my scrambled eggs. What a bloody waste, too good for my lawnmower too.

GMC’s Typhoon and Syclone are standing off camera dressed in their usual basic black ‘Blues brothers’ attire, cracking their knuckles and preparing to beat the living snot out of the Lambo when the cameras aren’t looking.

An engineering colleague of mine told me of a previous job he had as a powerplant packaging engineer working on a certain V12 supercar that will remain nameless. He ended up doing a bit of ‘ride along’ work during the prototype testing phase in order to finalize the car’s systems.

We all know what the best GM 4 cylinder of the era was though! Released in 1987, designed in house at GM Opel and forming the basis of a race motor that would go on to remain competitive in top touring car classes from 87' through to the 2000s, it also provided championship winning performance to many F3 teams until…

Perhaps I was too close?

Dammit! Now you’ve invoked Murphy. There goes my house.

Uuuhm, I live in the middle of the pacific though!!!

I remember as a teenager that the local Glider / Sailplane club had one of these to return the winch cable to the next plane on the runway after a previous ground based winch launch. We used to stand on the bed holding onto the roll bar and bounce up and down as it drove down the airfield. Because the rear shocks were…

That’s your problem buddy, not mine. I am overseas, in the land of nearly unrestricted vehicle imports.

You’d be hard pressed to kill a Daihatsu Rocky 2.8L Diesel, that’s the one with the wider track than the 1.6L model, it almost looks to have the same wheelbase as the track with pumped arches and larger AT tyres. It would eat anything on this list off road and it could land rather sizeable jumps like some Baja racer…

If you’re as much of a car nerd as me, it’s not surprising at all that a Volvo c303 and a Typhoon show up on my radar as competitors! To be honest though I have not seen a Syclone show up on listings yet so I don’t know If I could answer that. I had a C303 and a Typhoon in my watchlist and I had to pick one, there was…

I came....II........that close to buying one of these last year, I ended up buying a GMC Typhoon instead. Now I want both :(

I want to see one of these line up against a GMC Syclone for some period correct 1/4mile shenanigans. Hell I’d do it in my Typhoon just for laughs!

Regarding the Subaru BRZ tS. I think the Suzuki Swift Sport (2005 on  wards) can be considered in the same fashion. Trying very hard to be enormously fun to throw around a technical stretch of road, but on normal daily duties it feels like driving an empty can of beer riding on granite. Don’t get me wrong, enormously…

I tried something similar in my AWD Turbo V6 truck. I must admit, Kenneth Blockington Esquire makes it look a lot better ;(

My buddy has a stock Landcruiser with one of these motors. It somehow manages to feel COMPLETELY gutless in stock trim. It’s almost as if the factory figures are incorrect! Hill climbing at highway speed appears to involve MANY down shifts LOL

Look at the valve cover, compare it to my photo. That is a GM motor in a Ford buddy! Oh the sacrilege! More specifically its a C20XE, factory displacement is 2000cc, big bore kits can take them to 2500cc. Funny enough in the UK kits to place this Gem of a GM powerplant into Escorts are widely available and a rather…

It actually sounds near identical to my old 2L Opel Vectra GT. It must be a result of 4 cylinders breathing through individual velocity stacks with 45mm + throttles. Man that noise used to turn some heads!