I’ve only read the headline, went in the garage and took this picture. I’m still posting this because it is only 20€ in Germany: http://www.landcruiser-parts.de/4-Wheel-Drive-…

The 1630kg on the German site are including a 68kg driver, 7kg of luggage and a 90% filled fuel tank. They have to do this because of some weird EU legislation. If you add 44kg and remove driver and luggage you get 1599kg. Not 1612kg, but maybe the fuel tank is filled completely in US weights? Or more standard…

I don’t think someone with a Speciale would buy cast wheels for under 200€. These forged monobloc wheels are more likely.

Does “GT” cars also include the GTS?

The Fiat 500 shares platform with the Ford Ka. There’s room for an even smaller suv.

I belive Avon makes some quite big tires for small wheels. And a few Japanese manufacturers also produce tires in obscure sizes, although they aren’t always exported.

The Porsche Cayman has struts front and rear and handles pretty good. You just have to design them right.

It is mostly flat. But I just made this spreadsheet, which estimates the maximal grade you can drive at a certain speed based on power, top speed and weight. If I enter the Audi’s data i calculate a maximal grade of 8.x percent. And it estimates quite conservatively.

I don’t know if Fiats 100 hp are less than other manufacturers hp, but I drive my moms Audi A3 from time to time. It is a ‘98 with a staggering 90 HP. The car has no problem at all sitting on the Autobahn with 180 km/h all day while barely consuming any diesel in normal use and not being that slow in that slow in the…

Not really. This system here has a variable spring rate while magnetic ride has variable damping. Two completely different things.

Audi sells Diesel convertibles since 1995.

I get why they don’t want to make full time AWD. But it doesn’t make sense to me to go with FWD with a longitudinal engine. On a transverse setup part time FWD means, that you don’t have the losses of the spiral gears in the rear differential, you only have spur gears on parallel axes.

The car in the posted picture was also 100% developed in Germany by TMG.

That’s a normal 600 in your picture, not a Pullman. This is how a Pullman looks:

Nobody could have predicted that they start burning, with a gas tank vent placed cleverly right next to a flame-spitting exhaust.

He would land smoothly when the other car also had external airbags.

You know there is the LS4? No need to convert to RWD.

The military just gave LiquidPiston a couple million dollars to develope exactly this:

I’m not sure if it I remember correctly or if it is with this wireframe thing, but I think I might have a picture of a half-cut beetle showing the luggage compartments. My grandfather worked for Volksvagen on their advertising from the 60's until the 90's and I have a whole bunch of original photos, brochures and ads…

I’ve seen a GT-86 with Scion Badged in Germany once.