This article made me realize that, by and large, the “dream cars” of my youth will all be crushed by the time I hit my mid-50s. #MillenialAngst

“Gentleman’s Cinema”?

one letter, one number

W12

Paging Doug DeMuro! Paging Doug DeMuro! Your second car has been found.

Sadly it has an engine:

Cool looking? You need to see the optometrist.

Ferrari FF engine.

lower it and put a 1JZ-GTE in it.

Personally, I’d love to see how a Tesla P90D drive train would do in a truck. Depending on how armored it is, you could put the battery packs under the cab and the bed. Also, with that much torque, you should be able to beat a Tundra in a Space Shuttle pulling race.

Hyabusa engine, because why the heck not?

I have a spare Le Car engine actually. Seems perfect.

There’s really only one logical choice.

I’ve been thinking on this a lot lately and scouring the internet for my preferred motor to jam into some unsuspecting chassis.

Engine?

You could not pay me enough money to take one of those trucks. They have to be the ugliest things ever! The front looks like the face a shark would make during a particularly invasive body cavity search.

I think you guys should know me well enough to have guessed my answer.

Okay, so it’s a foreign chassis brought over here, and we’re going to need some local power then, eh?

Tigershark 2.4 or a Fiat four-cylinder diesel because I want one of these:

The 2.3-liter EcoBoost out of a Focus RS.

I would put a Cummins 4BT (3.9L 4 cylinder, basically a 5.9 minus 2 cylinders) with a compound turbo setup, linked to a six speed