So, this Lucas de Grassi guy is actually an asshole. This guy is a rick playboy and a denialist about the current amazonian rainforest deforestation. He try to say it was worse during the previous presidential management because he defends the current maniac president. But attacking the past don’t change the fact that…

Torch, I was about to send you a email, the specialist made his research about the red bubble thingy. It is just a colored variation from the speedometer bubble lens, with no practical use.

The Fusca authority answered my email. He also don't know this thing and think it is useless. But he says he's going to research further about it. I'll keep you informed Jason. 

I think you are right about the red bubble. The Beetle was the most popular car here and had low variety of cars in the market since imports was prohibited. Because of this, aftermarket accessories was common to differentiate the cars. From simple stuff like flower vases and these bubble lenses to more elaborated…

Just found some with a transparent bubble, including a blue one. But nothing about the red. This bubble was an accessory in the 60's and 70's.

Hello Jason, one of your Brazilian readers here.

Toyota had a supercharged Aurion in Australia (their Camry), so I guess the transmission can handle some extra power

This Getrag appears to be used in diesel powered european panel vans. But the manual Giulia Quadrifoglio uses the same transmission as the Land Rover Discovery 3, so who am I to judge.

BMW say it doesn’t have a manual transmission capable to handle this much of power. This is their new excuse to everything, the next M4 will only have manual transmission at the less powerful trim level.

You know who also uses 90 degree v6? The Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio. And also shares the same stroke as this new Maserati engine. And the Alfa engine is based int the Ferrari V8, this Maserati engine has the same bore as the Ferrari SF90 Stradale

Is a 90 degree V6 and stroke measure is the same as the Alfa Giulia V6... I don’t think it is all Maserati as they are saying

Ford did something even better in Australia and the shifter helped with it

All american full-size trucks have crank windows at the base model, don’t know about the Toyota Tundra and the Nissan Titan

You missed the most important model
The base regular cab XL model, with crank windows. Sadly Ford only reveal this interior picture, I didn’t find the exterior 

Can’t disagree with your case, is very justified. But I still think American trucks andacars re a bit overpowered, but this seems more like a cultural thing and after have a 300+up vehicle nobody would want trade this for something less powerfull. 

At least here in Brazil, people who want big RV like this usually buy a converted van or bus.

Yes, it usually follow the very strict european rules. Bu since the engine is smaller, it usually don’t need lots of complicated emission controls. Modern 4 cylinder diesel still got good reliability

Dude, this fwd Fiat trucklet with a 1.4 engine have higher payload than a Ram 1500. Yeah, it doesn't tow, but it can handle well the weight on its bed and is very thought 

People in Europe do these kind of things in hatchbacks. In the US regular cars have lower towing capabilities for some reason. 

People here already replied about the other stuff, but I can guarantee about the powertrain reliability. People in the rest of the world drive these things to the smithereens and not always do proper maintenance. The Toyota Hilux didn't get its fame for nothing. According to what I see here, American modern trucks…