So much for the turbo rumours.

Looks more like the California T to me:

Can anyone spy a turbo here?

Anyone else see some California T at the back end?

This is a really low nose for a front-engined car in this age of pedestrian collision regulations.

In 1992 the Viper was old school.

That works for me - nothing electronic interceding between your inputs and the wheels. So that rules out ABS and throttle-by-wire, any kind of stability control, 'launch control' etc.

To me, these are very modern cars. I very much remember sitting on the floor of my local newsstand reading comparison tests between the Ford, the Ferrari 360, and the Gallardo in then-new issues of EVO. I remember thinking how strange the NSX looked once they dropped the pop up headlights. I was a certain age, and I…

If anything, the E30 over-braked, and the red WRX didn't anticipate how much he was slowing. The Fairlane was minding his own business.

What's up with the non-functioning tach and speedo?

Something's off with this grill ... it almost looks asymmetrical.

There's almost as much going on back here as a California T.

Oh, I was talking about the Borderlands loaders.

The arm joints counted for critical hits, too. Some of them you could shoot legs off.

Surely it'd be more fun to emulate the original Lagonda dash?

Could this be ... actual tasteful restraint? On a luxury car in 2014?

They were on such a great run too, with the front ends of the 147, 156, (facelifted-) 166, 159/Brera. Then they decided the 8C should define their design language, but it just doesn't scale down to little hatchbacks.

Agreeing so hard right now.

For some reason they decided to give it the face of the 8C, in some misguided attempt to have some of the magic rub off, I guess. Really doesn't work on either this or the Giulietta.

Well, it's an unnecessary trunk and set of doors tacked onto a toned-down 145. The original design was pretty avant garde.