V12 ain’t american. Do it twin V8 (V16) and name the engine Great Balls of Fire. 14L displacement, 1600 BHP with supercharger(s).

While I largely agree with your assessment, I am thinking that if you intentionally make the spindle significantly stronger than the links where the tethers are, you can sort of design where it fails.

Yes - that is the one salient thing I miss with old cars: the lack of a center panel. Allowing you to spread your legs like the fat old man you are.

Cross Country, please. Not SUV.

Wild guess: batch of badly tanned leather.

I would think that maybe making it NOT computer-controlled may be a good idea.

Put it on eBay as an exclusive  Porsche collectors’ item. The rarity should net you a fine sum.

If I were a successful race driver and someone asked me to pose, I’d do my best James Dean impression.

Yeah, I use to say that I look like a greek god.

I shall try this at the bar.

Gesture control?

Oh, okay. Thanks!

How does a fire make a ship capsize? Did the ballast vaporize or something?

Considering the very low center of gravity and the packaging freedom of not having a big lump ‘o engine between the wheels, it should not be so difficult to set a BEV up to be sporty? In the front you can do whatever mid-engine cars do, and in the rear you don’t need complex driveshaft/differential stuff. Should be an…

Half of the human race does not live in cities, and outdoor air is unlikely to be worse than indoor air here in the forest where I live.

Struggle? Pure pleasure in my book. :)

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They have tried this for a long time in Europe, and it doesn’t really work. This is the defaitist “things would be better if people would not exist” conclusion to looking at ecological footprints, and I do not ascribe to it.

AFAIK, it was generally panned because the 3L I4 felt and sounded like a tractor.