You had me at “490-horsepower, 2.5-liter V6 with a redline just shy of 12,000 RPM”

“a dual USB jack”

I keep hoping we will collectively move past it as an industry

My sister in law’s mom was faced with exactly this situation - as she put it, “I want to feel the wind in my hair while I still have some” - and she went for an S2000. She was ok with manual though.

FV Frangivento appears to be a real company, but this seems awful like an April Fools joke. Because it’s hard to believe the designer was being serious here - you’d have to really work to get that many mismatched lines into one car.

Yes, but Hyundai’s offering a 10 year battery warrantee and it’s hard to imagine that coming with a disclaimer of “unless you use the charging stations we’re building for you to incentivise you to buy the car”.

“when you approach another car from behind at that speed, it’s scary”

If we’re being pedantic it was ATN7 who did it, and Supercars weren’t involved at all, since they didn’t yet exist: at that point it was the Australian Touring Car Championship, run by CAMS and the ARDC. It’s all splitting hairs though - it’s not like the race organisers could have done it on their own pre-internet…

They’ve been setting the standard for a long time, having pioneered racecam in-car cameras in the 1970s.

the real stuff is still only used by the British secret space force

The reason for this is because around about 1982 or so, a senior Nissan exec ran his car out of gas because he thought he had more left than he did.

Renault did something similar (but a little more sensible) on the 5GT Turbo (and maybe other SuoerCinqs - I only owned the GTT). When the ignition was on but the engine not running, the oil pressure gauge showed oil level.

Chris Amon. Although he was rated during his career, he’s not widely remembered nowadays due to never winning a race during his F1 career. But as Motorsport Magazine put it in his obituary:

The Motu. https://rallysportmag.com/famous-stages-new-zealands-magic-motu-road-part-1/

“without any fancy gadgets”

Sorry, I don’t follow your logic. You appear to be saying that 2WD machines are faster around corners and slower on the straights than 4WD. Also, “they always do well” doesn’t square with “haven’t won an event since 1987”

Here’s ex Hyundai WRC driver Hayden Paddon showing how it’s done in a mk2 Escort during Rally Otago ( a leg of the NZ rally championship) in 2015.

I’ve been a passenger in a Citroen DS, and I’ve owned a “series” XJ6, so I’ve experienced the “what’s a bump?” life. I’m not sure that it counts if you can still go round corners though. And I’ve never had the privilege of planting my butt on velour.

“the latter is just stupid but I guess technically possible.”

I wasn’t being serious.