You mean it was really a Maclaren?!

On the subject of 'Ford crate engines' they could do worse than this one from Australia:
Barra 310T FG: 4 litre twin cam, multi-valve, inline six, VVT, turbo. Power: 310 kW (416 hp) @ 5250 rpm. Torque: 565 N·m (417 lb·ft) @ 1950-5200 rpm.

Other obsolete technologies also resist criminalality. I had a Betamax VCR that survived two burglaries! That's a selling point that never occurred to Sony ...

I think P.J. O'Rourke got it right when he write about 'Sport Futility Vehicles'.

Repeat after me: "Righty tighty, lefty loosy."

At the Tokyo Motasho in 1997, Suzuki had an alloy 1.5L V8 on show. Looked amazing, but never showed up in production. Wonder where it went? (Can't even find anything on Google about it now).

Hate to be picky, but the article seems to completely miss the distinction between 'sports car' and 'supercar'.

Best shade of green ever: Aston "California Sage'.

The Grandaddy of them all: the Napier that won the 1902 Gordon Bennett Trophy so giving rise to 'British Racing Green' ...

Melbourne, Australia, 1983.

A touch of Jensen 541 in the rear screen?

So the Subaru has a 'quadrozontal' engine ...

Actually, gentlemen prefer big Bristols.

What is the car in the 'jaws of death'? I first thought Ford V8 Pilot, but it's a six-light body, and the mascot isn't right. Sorta looks American, late 30s. Pontiac? Chrysler? Anyone know?

Now with 25% more Korea!

Move to China. Haggle on everything. Win.

Back projection. The camera angle on the car footage is set rather lower than the angle on Shelley, so it gets disproportionally big when it approaches her. I'm guessing a rope and a body double for the actual impact ... with some skip-frame printing to speed up the flying backwards. She also looks to be hovering…

Say it loud and there's music playing. Say it soft, and its almost like praying ...

Gotta love this one ...