Well, VW would be the only one to fund it either way. They wholly own Bugatti anyway.

Pretty typical. Americans made several over the top nuts concept cars from the late 80s through the 2000s, almost none of them ever saw a hint of going into production.

I don’t hate it. At least it has performance that will blow the vast majority of actual Mustangs right off the road.

I’m going to add to my previous reply a reminder that we almost had the Ford Probe be the next Mustang, replacing the Fox body in the late 80s. The uproar from Mustang traditionalists was so great against the Mustang being turned into a FWD sporty coupe that Ford decided to extend the Fox body’s production run and put…

Yeah, maybe not the Mustang’s proudest generation. In 1974, you couldn’t even get them with a V8. And when the V8 did come back, it was sub 150 hp thanks to tightening emissions regs and automakers scrambling to kludge together ways to meet regs.

Yeah, was SCCA, though it had a title sponsor in SPEED Channel for awhile... then Pirelli? All blurs together anymore.

Haven’t watched it yet, might tonight, which is a rarity for me with any movie to attempt to brave crowds on opening weekend, but, that’s how excited I am for the movie.

Hah, right?? A little more modularness in their road cars definitely wouldn’t be a bad thing. They’ve attempted to do a little bit of that, but you’ll definitely not ever see a 4 minutes transmission and suspension swap on a road car, that’s for sure. Then again, most car repairs tend to be 1 technician doing the work…

I wouldn’t call it pointless. It was a good car with some interesting tech. Cadillac was making DOHC 32V V8s for years with the Northstar family and they claimed the race engine had its basis on that. They even installed a night vision heads up display, but apparently it was so distracting that drivers just ended up…

When it comes to these cars, to me it’s less about the outside looks (the Germans used to be a little more restrained with their styling in this class, still sort of are) and more about what it’s like to be inside the car.

For some reason it strikes me as... sort of Koenigsegg-esque... before Koenigsegg.

NFS2 memories!

Really cool project! Makes me want to get serious about making the Touareg an overlander. Was already looking into roof top tents and the like. It’s not quite long enough for me to sleep in with the seats down, and add the girlfriend, definitely not enough space. Though the couple times I tried a short trail, she…

Yes, gas engines have indeed made huge strides, and the torque density is very similar when you’re talking about small displacement 4 cylinders it seems. But as you ramp up in vehicle size and weight, the diesel advantage gap tends to increase. And despite what the EPA ratings tell you, in real world use, the diesel…

If you think towing with the 2.8 CRD is bad, you should try it with the standard 3.7 V6 from the era...

I really, really like this.

Bump day is an Indy tradition. I’d hate to see it go away. There was a time when just practice and qualifying took up most of the month of May, and was well attended. Since the split the attendance declined greatly for the pre-race happenings in the weeks leading up to the race.

Mostly on point, just missing a smidge of info on the history when you started getting into the split stuff... er, well, there were two splits, really.

I’m actually a couple years younger than you, but was already voraciously consuming most everything in C/D and R&T from ‘96 on through the mid 2000s. R&T in particular had very good motorsports coverage back then. I’d watch races where I could, but didn’t have cable so I could only see what ABC broadcast, which was…

I haven’t. I haven’t been reading either of their columns as religiously as I once did when CART was at its peak. Was never the same to me, but I keep tabs on things enough, I just don’t absorb every possible thing I can about it like I used to.