Only *IF* you fit in them. I do not.

5’8” 180lbs, wide shoulders, long torso, short legs. Feels like someone is trying to break my collar bones sitting in these. Also the seat bottom angle is all wrong for my leg length, if they tilted as well as just adjusting height I might live with the vice-grip across my shoulders, but put the two together and it’s…

currently *AVERAGING* 39.7 MPG in my FieSTa... yeah, thats right AVERAGE. I have no problem with these.

my flow leads to Sabine Schmitz, Kari Byron and a hard toss-up between Richard Ayoade and The Hyneman... I think I lean Hyneman though.. I mean, lets not forget:

Possibly a better visual analogy, but I think it was closer in spirit to the GTI. The Scirocco was always an “upmarket”, “sporty” vehicle, it may be visually more akin to the Scirocco, but at it’s core it’s a cheap little car with some go-faster bits.

unless you make all the parts of your IRS out of aluminum, a torsion beam is also lighter.

please don't forget that the FieSTa has a torsion beam rear suspension. Admittedly, its probably the best torsion beam rear end in a production car on the face of the planet, but it is proof that they need not suck in the least.

this one is a great example...

perfectly illustrated by this image:

If I remember my history correctly, didn’t they have a prototype (or two) with chain-drive from the transmission to the front knuckles housed inside the hollow front leading-arm?

not really, it’s a combination unit, the (sealed!) swing axels are an integral part of the load bearing structure of the chassis and the springs are mounted to center backbone. it’s not just any swing-axle, It’s a wacky (and effective) bit of engineering...

It’s also a rather brilliant way to centralize mass and reduce unsprung weight. It’s genius, really. Realy strange genius..

cool vehicle, but not that rare, there are two within 20 miles of my house, one is street driven regularly.

Wow, that’s awesome.

ah, the laforza, an offroad automotive jackalope!

damnit... now I’m watching this auction..

not an ultra rare car in the grand scheme of things (but not super common either, it’s a weird mid-year-model-change-odd-trim-package-kind-of-deal), but as the seller says, it may very well be the only one in the USA... and its *RUST FREE*!

not very rare... though many of them have turned to rust now....

KINJAAAA!

EXACTLY. The NOVA show about the JSF contest clearly shows all the myriad ways the Boeing design was superior from a cost and serviceability standpoint, but it was slower, and it was “ugly”, had a slightly larger radar cross-section and at the time they hadn’t yet worked all the kinks out of the one-piece composite…