Looking at the stance of the car, I would say it IS a mid-engine layout. Just a front-mid and not a rear-mid. (Based on the side profile, the majority of the engine is sitting inside the front axle, and not in front of it.)

Daily the Porsche is the right answer.  I drive my Carrera 991.1 every day.

Gustavo, you should daily your Porsche.

If you weren’t around the car world back then, you’ll never really know what it was like, but this car got a bit over a decade of hype before it finally released to the ultra-wealthy public. Only twenty examples were built per month at a cost of $375,000 each, but Lexus reportedly lost money on every single one…

But also, you CAN drive them that long. Some of us remember the days when 100,000 miles on a car (particularly domestic brands) meant the end of its useful service life. These days, even at 200k, a car can still be in good shape, running great, and not rusted into oblivion. 

Yeah...no...the government didn’t tell Ford to only make trucks and sports cars.

I think in the UAW’s case, the biggest problem was in the 70s. and early 80s. US car quality SUCKED in the 70s and early 80s. The low quality crap that the Big 3 made back then smeared everywhere.

Yep. Stories from parents impact the kids for a LONG time.

Back in the ‘70s (yeah, I’m old) my brother and I walked the picket lines while our father in management was locked inside keeping the plant running.

And that made him against all unions, instead of recognizing that, like politicians, all are not alike.

The big thing that I take away from this is two things:

I thought winglets were the small pieces BWW serves you when then need to supplement an order of a dozen, spicy garlic....

Could have gone around twice with them.

I wonder if anti-union people understand that the other side is always organized in some sort of “union”

nothing scares the GOP more than organization. Divide and conquer or organize and unity. 

We encourage greed for the management in this country but look down at the workers trying to ask for basic survival income. Absolutely balls out insanity.

No, the manufacturers are run by shortsighted people who chase quarterly profits. The government didn’t have much at all to do with it.

The government didn’t mandate that Ford kill off all of its affordable offerings. Ford was simply following the cynical “build less, charge more” pricing model that a number of car manufacturers thought they could get away with in the wake of pandemic supply chain issues.

They all thought they could be Tesla on day 1.