I always thought even before the movies it gave superhuman strength because that was how he was able to survive being frozen for 20-60 years. Cap at various times was also able to give super powered heroes fighting lessons.

They need to realize people go to McD’s because they’re choosing cheap and fast over quality.

It ain’t complicated, but the combustion chamber shape itself is not very good for igniting the most fuel with a spark plug compared to a cylinder. That’s always been the problem with its efficiency.

I’ve never heard of high octane being a problem on old rotaries. When they were racing them in IMSA Lights there were competing tuning methods of high octane with as much advanced ignition timing vs. low octane with more standard timing. “standard” for a big ported engine anyway.

That’s why they’ve amped up their racing program over the last 10 years, but nobody watches racing. Shoulda put them in Transformers or Fast and the Furious.

Fun fact: They’re all in English, made in Italy, and sold in Japan.

Perhaps the movie was too Disney-fied? I saw it as a kid and liked it a bit, but liked the comics a lot more when I read them over a decade later.

Caterham makes one with ~100hp and skinny tires. James May liked it on Top Gear.

Even if they give up on it they could probably race it in Super GT like Honda did with the HSV-10.

Here’s one that’s been around for a bit.

Honda did the same thing as Volvo. And for both it’s only for the driver’s door. You could still open the passenger doors and lock them before shutting.

On my 1985 RX-7 (FB) if you push the lock down then close the door, it unlocks. Makes it all but impossible to lock the keys in the car, but also makes it a pain to actually lock the car. This is on both doors.

love the front wing, I think the Ferrari Pista has little bit of this going on too. Also shown on the Yamaha OX99-11 concept:

I remember that episode distinctly because it depicts an execution in a gas chamber. I was in middle or high school and thought, “this is a kids’ show?”

Are those vortex generators on the side pods?

Mazda says, “ Hey, we tried.”

Sounds like they want people who won’t be quick to bad mouth the company to do the troubleshooting.

I don’t think he’s a boring guy either, but McQueen seemed like the rich guy who said “gimme the best car” and only raced to impress people because it was much more dangerous at the time. Because he stopped racing after haphazardly filming Le Mans, I don’t think he really had the passion for it.

Sure McQueen drove with a broken foot, but it was Peter Revson who did most of the driving to 2nd place. Mario Andretti won, and said he drove more aggressively because the announcer kept saying McQueen was in the car when he knew it was Revson.

I remember M Sport doing this so that Sebastien Loeb would be the stage sweeper on gravel (and still get beaten by him), but not to this extent.