I love how appropriately Dutch it is in its hideousness.

That’s just mind blowing that at a time when Beetle engines were only putting out 30-50hp this thing spun out 170hp from 1600cc in the same era.

In all fairness, you’re usually that guy.

That was such a horrific era starting in about 1983 when every American manufacturer simultaneously abandoned rear wheel drive and were touting those wheel-tugging, tire-balding, torque-steering FWD setups as a positive feature.

Dude!

Fingers crossed for a reborn Cimarron too

Found the pessimistic hater

Nice! Nice! Nice! Nice!

So this was during a test drive.

This is the only right answer.

I’m about as diehard as a car guy gets, but I love the idea of these things. They’re f’ing lifesavers.

So he was the Stig that time, just like I said. The post I was responding to literally had just mentioned the “guest Stig” spots that happened on occasion. Not sure how much clearer that could have been.

I’m pretty interested what weird engineering required the Chiron’s 16 cylinders to exhaust into 4 turbochargers and somehow end up with 2 pipes going to 1 muffler that has 6 exits.

That’s still a hell of a fun car. It’s hard to believe that the first GTI had only 108hp, or about twice the lbs per hp of the current GTI.

You just reminded me of when Schumacher was the Stig. God I miss that guy. Here’s hoping for a miracle and one day a few years from now the helmet comes off and it’s Schuey again.

They’re not nearly as gripping as the Hair/Hairer/Hairest days of Top Gear when they’d do the season preview clips. Those were always wall-of-sound rock ‘n roll g-force-ripping pulse jumping awesome.

You appear to have proceeded with your comment before processing the point I made.

That looks like one of those things that seems so easy to use if you’re really, really good at it, but a normal person will die almost instantly. Like wielding a King Cobra in a fistfight.

“You appear to be headed for championship, if you are still alive after today,” joked Putin.

“A world you can’t should predict demands a car you can trust should drive safely.”