It’s like Honda had leftover motorbike parts. The S600 has a driveshaft and differential, but the chain drives just replace the swing axles.

Because the 2018 is an eyesore.

Black smoke: the bus is still burning

“who is actually qualified to do their job and not some random moron who until four years ago had literally no experience”

I had a 1998 Buick Regal GS (man I miss that car) that had the traction control button right in the middle of the center console, after a trip to Mohegan Sun Casino in CT with my wife we were on the highway and she asked me what the “Trac” button did and what would happen if she pressed it. I told her its the traction…

Flying cars DO exist:

My grandfather was a chauffeur and mechanic at the turn of the century for a couple of millionaires of that era. I have his old oak tool chest and his tools (most of). In there is a glass cylindrical beaker and a hydrometer for testing gasoline (specific density testing I imagine). In early brass era days there was…

The MX-5 is the answer to everything.

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Two things:

You can’t or shouldn’t at least have multivalve heads with pushrods. Four valve engines make more torque and horsepower per liter than pushrod engines all other things being equal. Pushrods fuck up your incoming intake charge, because the ports have to go around the pushrods. OHC and DOHC engines make more torque and…

That’s a nice price if you’re into that sort of thing.

Now let’s harken back to the days of playing 7Up in elementary school, remember that? Yeah, this guy is the kid who kept his head down, thumb in the air hoping Heather would actually gently push his thumb back into his palm, proving once and for all she loved him and they would get married right after high school. …

The problem with these is that Miata is still the answer.

Definitely. Riding a motorcycle in the summer months makes driving the five-seat car (alone) feel like such a waste. Seeing the big F-whatevers with their pristine tonneau covers and nothing or nobody in them is infuriating.

This sounds like a great compromise.

You know what?

So it’s not just the Japanese that can over design car then, & why do Chevy keep moving their bow tie badge?

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, overlaying something like the Golden Ratio can perhaps shed some light on how the differing arrangements play out in this particular situation:

I think it looks much better with the center grill section painted and the bowtie raised a bit... looks like lots of collision shops will be getting work painting those things, like they did with Acura beaks.