My response was to Toobs-n-Stuff. He wanted completely different bodywork throughout the car, not just the front end. That costs money, and my response was how many people would be willing to pony up another $5k for the rest of the body to be different? Nothing to do with current costs of Integra vs CSi.

I once dated a girl who drove like this. Her day job was shuttling vehicles between car rental agencies in DFW, and the more they shuttled, the more they were paid. I made a point to never ride with her again in DFW traffic, as she came within inches of clipping cars while doing lane changes at 90mph.

But how many peeps will pay an extra $5k for different bodywork? Enough to fund the new sheetmetal stamping equipment, or whatever they use now?

We need more two-tone paint jobs, if for nothing else than to break up the slab sides on all new vehicles (especially trucks!).

Were those Banana Splits a precursor to Top Gear?

Those steelies are just factory Nissan base steelies that are painted white. You can get the steelies cheap and paint then up yourself.

Rivets, eh? Next cool tool should be industrial construction adhesive. That makes a terrific fastener by itself, or in conjunction with Rivets (or other fasteners).

Sounds like Japanese (JIS) fasteners. Much better than Phillips-head fasteners, but the uninitiated will attempt to use a Phillips screwdriver on them and then proceed to strip them out.

People forget that lightness makes cars fun. Everybody wants every luxury and safety item in their car, and it is extremely difficult to add lightness in that case.

Rolls-Royce cars are now owned and built by BMW, correct?

I’d say pretty much any Ford vehicle out there. However, they have the slickest marketing department, so that is likely a major contributor.

Step 1: come up with semi-plausible vaporware that will attract venture capitalists

That's what you got from my post?!? Smh

When I lived in Texas, lane-splitting (or lane sharing) was not specifically illegal, which meant you could do it, but an officer couldn’t write you a ticket for doing it. They could, however, write you a ticket for reckless driving if they deemed appropriate.

They will build and sell profitable higher trims until that market is saturated, and high-priced trims begin to languish on dealer lots. At that point, the mfrs will bring in the cheaper, less profitable cars in an attempt to saturate that less desirable market.

I really like this idea. Maybe it will carry over to international touring bikes eventually. E-Wing, anyone? It won’t sound any different....

The only thing worse than Truck Nutz are those frowny-looking headlight caps on Jeeps.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! CP all day!

All I remember about station wagons is that us kids got to play in the “playpen” in the back - we loved going for car rides. I’d play with my cheap matchbox knockoff cars, siblings would play Jack’s or maybe cards.

Wait ten years or so... when hotrodding will consist of replacing the batteries with newer tech batteries that have twice the range and half the weight...  :)