The GTV and the earlier GTA are at the top of my struck-it-rich-call-Canepa-list.

Quick! Call Lotus. No telling how much time we have to call Lotus...

In which direction should we bisect it? I’d kinda enjoy a V4 Ford competing with the Miata and BRZ.

Yep, this design pushes the belt-line down creating an open greenhouse. It looks airy and refreshing compared to the origami bunkers currently on the new car lots.

I am foolish enough to want this.

...a slightly squashed sphere...oh never mind, I’m feeling slightly less pedantic than usual.

I didn’t even know what the question was.

Kind of yes. Years ago in Soquel California I observed two raccoons the size of enormous raccoons fighting in the middle of the road. I heard them long before I saw them. Their vocal exchange was surely the quadreped equivalent of TV-MA. Give those teeth and thumbs a wide berth.

I was going to suggest Bentley Mulsanne, but have changed my mind.

I regret to note that raccoons also have anger management issues.

I’d like to order the Sesto Elemento trim level on non-Lamborghinis.

If that front diff had been an option in 2016, I’d have clicked that box.

Yep, a pre-purchase inspection at Canepa seems mandatory.

I am always confounded by stickers that tell thieves what they can steal from your parked car. Need a new amp? Try Rockford Fosgate Pontiac. Need a gun? Try Glock and HK F-150? Need EPO and a Cliff Bar? Try Trek Audi.

Is there an exception for motorsports related stickers? My 2000 Focus wagon had a small WRC decal in the rear window. My RS has a Scottish flag, for Colin McRae. There’s a Welsh flag on the passenger side.

I will happily accept the SZ, but have no boring cars to exchange. Will you take this misfit teutonic SUV instead?

It makes me wonder what I don’t know.

My inner delusional optimist hopes that this marks Peak Infotainment, beginning a return to switches and dials.

Paint Shop moon dust process:

After college, I got a real job and my first apartment at a fairly nice complex. A W8 wagon moved into the same complex and I kind of liked it. It didn’t leave its parking space very often. Then it didn’t leave it’s parking space at all. Then the suspension seemed to sag ever closer to the asphalt. Then it was gone.