Pretty pointless to hobble its performance just for skeumorphism.

The modern 911 Turbo is a great example. Mostly seen in Turbo S Cabriolet spec, it has become the "give me the most expensive one" go-to for overweight greying white men. If you're actually into cars you'd be going for the GT3.

MrTheEngineer dropping science over here!

No reason you can't fit a gearbox to the output shaft of an electric motor. You could get a Tesla past 130mph that way, but it would obviously add weight and complexity that they didn't feel worth the trade off.

No you didn't, not even stoppage time plus extra time plus penalties would come to three hours.

Shhh, I'm making a sarcastic defense of 'soccer' against American 'football'!

What's a goal crease? And who'd watch a sport that takes 3 hours?

Euro version of the Alfa 4C.

No, it had 5 too, but instead they decided to name it after its ability to snap oversteer.

No it's true! And the '35' part is because its volumetric capacity is approximately 3.5 litres!

As was en vogue for the time, the engine came with five valves per cylinder and, among other things, absolutely gorgeous intakes.

Yep, true of all the mid-engine V8s up until the 360, I believe. Engine out for belt changes prior to that.

Anyone know if they're mandating a minimum pit-stop length for the swap, endurance-race style? Seems to be tempting fate otherwise, trying to save a few tenths by rushing to buckle the straps. That's what made Le Mans running starts so dangerous, after all.

The CLK GTR was pretty wide:

Here's a pre-facelift for comparison ... smaller intakes for some reason:

Right, just wondered if you were limiting yourself to the S54, because those are much rarer. I'm in the UK, and they only built 165 in RHD with the S54 (and only about 800 with the S50).

And it still has the painted doorframe!

I like the way they've considerately put a shelf outside the window for you to place your drink on. Cabin space must be too tight for cupholders.

<some joke about stance>

In this thread: the reasons new cars weigh 4000lbs and have scores of niggling faults by the time you've owned them 5 years.