Your comment reminds this “elegant simplicity” kinda guy of his experience (secondhand) with a shop that would sell/install stereos, etc...They hated working on German cars as the interiors where installed front to back. To install a new component in the dash you began by first removing the rear-most interior piece…

I thank you for this article, not only for the content but the quality of comments it has generated. There was a time in the past when the comments were one of the reasons I came to the site. Since kinja, or there abouts, web-typical anonymous pissy-ness has taken over from the sharing of information and expanding on…

The one thing I can see in the Mazda's defense [ it pains me to write that ] that has not yet been mentioned is the slope of the road that the Lambo is traveling up. Low profile car, defilade position...I don't know...

Stupid point but, I won't be able to sleep tonight if I don't mention that the 'green screen' is actually back or rear projection. G'night.

Em, the Lotus Elite was a fiberglass monoque...read a tale of how Colin put everyone behind a project to remove pounds from the car, sterling and otherwise, and ended up laying the glass so then you could shove the pedal assembly right through the 'fire-wall.'

Let us not forget that even Yuri admitted he was not the first in space, just the first to survive...