It seems far more likely that they banned it because it puts a light source right in the middle of the driver’s line of sight, which would make it harder to see something ahead of you on the road.

Flight path of that last 747 on departure from Sydney (from flightradar.com):

And given that hitting the anchors will result in emptying the tub over the front, at what point have you lost enough weight to start hydroplaning on your own bow wave.

That might become a learning experience for them: Nissan applied for a trademark in the US:

Nissan might not be too impressed with that name...

There are certainly Jaguars which would be sublime with electric power, but they’re the saloons not the sports cars. In the sports cars, the sound, smell, and tactility of the powertrain is part of the object of the exercise, whereas in the saloons the goal is maximum waft, with effortless go when required.

“Compact Executive” (aka “Aspirational”) and “Compact Luxury” aren’t quite the same thing. Certainly the cars you name are where the Compact Luxury buyers go because there’s no better fit. But the existing products are still too sports-oriented in ride and handling to be “luxury”. The A Series is the closest of all of…

Go back far enough and there used to be a niche for small luxury cars: compact, well appointed, generously rather than stupidly powered, and biased towards comfort rather than outright handling. The UK poster child for these to me is the Triumph 2000/2500 saloons of the 1970s.

So in our reality, the Empire must have won. Because nowadays the only seats you can get in almost anything are reclaimed from Darth Vader’s castoffs.

“Slow” is something the V8 Vantage didn’t suffer from - in its heyday it was the fastest production car money could buy. 170-odd mph, I think from memory, which was hellish high for the 1970s.

“Tadek Marek, a company engineer back in the 1950s and 1960s”

Stop sitting around moping and build your own.

FQ editions are a Mitsubishi thing:

The Louwman museum in Den Haag. Found it while looking for a way to kill a day at Amsterdam Airport (it’s about an hour away by public transport).

GTX the designator for a “Q Car”model of the Mk4 and Mk5 Golf in some Asian markets. Basically a GTI with the body kit deleted, all the options boxes ticked, and some additional wood trim.

My boss and our head sales flew from New York to Los Angeles the day the skies re-opened after 9/11. They literally had a United 747 to themselves plus one other passenger. They did get bumped to first class :-). 

Exactly. This is a home market car that they let foreigners buy. They really don’t care if Americans (or anyone else) like it, as long as the Japanese buyers do.

Easy:

I was lucky enough to attend a race meet a few years ago in which three F1 Ferraris representing V10, V12, and Turbo eras joined a Formula 5000 grid.

Give it some Jandal