She started racing around 1959, this was 1962. With so little experience it is indeed amazing.

The Bentley, especially something old like an Arnage is probably MUCH simpler mechanically and has loads of more space under the hood so servicing should be much much easier than a Ferrari or Lambo where everything is packed very tightly.

So, speed-wise it’s about the same as a modern minivan, but sounds better, looks better, lifts the wheels on corners and has no room for children. Perfect!

My acquaintance with the US is limited to the east coast and Texas, which aren’t the places I’d imagine this working as intended. But true, for national parks and such it’d work. I live in Guatemala and it’d be awesome here.

Actually, it makes sense. Not for the US, at all, but for other countries it does make sense, I like it.

A warning to mute before pressing play would have been good you know.

If I get caught speeding in a Lotus, BMW or whatever, it’s probably a big fine and that’s that. In a McLaren I’d definitely be going to jail.

Nonexistent?

Hell you could have Singer make you a Singer Safari 911 and drive around in the coolest car in the world.

Nope, it’s probably going to be the traffic, or the speed limit...

Depends on what you use it for, this would be great for weekend adventures, camping and such; while keeping a car as my DD. Currently I have an old Montero for exactly this, but I’d like to replace it with something new and cheap when it finally gives up the ghost.

I’m betting some cars will use those biodegradable plastics, some, particularly enthusiast cars, won’t. In 25-30 years most current Camrys and Corollas will be in landfills, so I guess it’s better overall if those are biodegradable. On the other hand most Miatas and 911s will probably still be running, so it doesn’t…

I mean, really, in the last 20 minutes I already found a donor car and a place to do the conversion; now all I need is about $55k...

I don’t think it’s possible for any car to be cooler than a Safari-fied 911 with a roof rack.

On the other hand, low volume manufacturing technologies are also advancing. In 20-30 years when current cars are becoming classics (and only a very small percentage will) you’ll probably be able to 3D print almost any part, possibly even electronic components.

Is Gordon Murray going to be involved? If not then I don’t really see anything nearly as exciting and groundbreaking as the F1 happening (only interesting supercars happening right now are Koenigsegg in my opinion).

I have a 10 year old car and a 46 year old car; it’s much MUCH easier to find parts for the 46 year old car.

I think Mitsubishi did it first with the Montero / Montero Sport back in the 90's

The record from back when I was about 17 or so was more than 30 kids in a Suburban. This was on a small street going to-from the beach slowly so not so bad.

I’m guessing not the trunk, that little space behind the seats wasn’t so bad. When I was about 18 I remember carrying friends there for short trips. As a fun fact that non-seat in the MGB convertible is actually roomier than the rear seat in my dad’s GT6.