This is a very good answer... even with options the car just *looks* decontented and destyled on purpose to suit its role as a cheap Chevy.

It’s not terrifying unless you are attempting to merge ahead of large truck off a short ramp. Or you are on a high bridge with a strong wind shear. However, it is absolutely unpleasant to drive on the highway... I’ve driven both this and the Spark. The Daewoo, while smaller, is the far superior car.

Of course it involved a lot of second-tier races... Maserati only campaigned the car for a season and a half before running out of cash. Without the Venezuela disaster it would have won the season, I believe. Most of the car’s high-profile DNFs were the result of transmission/clutch failures. And of course the…

Sort of. Ford didn’t buy the design, they contracted Porsche Eng. for initial design concepts and licensed the casting process from Cosworth. The final product is predominantly Ford.

Absolutely, that is just a semi-precious stone.

31 victories out of 119 appearances... not so bad. And some of the DNFs were from crashing. Actually, quite a lot of them.

I’m not sure where these performance chops come from but the C-HR is a 12th-gen Corolla with heavier bodywork and the same powertrain as the base Corolla sedan. Persistent understeer if you can get it going that quickly. The only vehicles on sale slower than this car 0-60 are the Spark and the Mirage.

In the case of the Opel CIH, it was more of a case of manufacturability than maintainability. The design used many of the same parts and features as a pushrod engine, which meant that it was an easier sell to the overlords at GM than a full overhead cam design. Pontiac half-assed it with their own OHC experiment and…

According to the webs, the original engine in this car was based on half of a Ballot 3-liter inline-8. A Ballot equipped with the bigger engine beat the Fiat 802 at the first Italian Grand Prix the previous year, and placed second to Duesenberg at the French Grand Prix.

It’s funny how the concept of “production car” has changed. Less than 300 isn’t a lot of production compared to most regular cars. But compared to other hypercars, that’s a ton. And it easily passes muster with respect to setting records.

So you are suggesting that GM sell a mid-engine sports car with what is basically a C8.R race engine in the back for the same money as a GT500 or Hellcat, two much less advanced let alone track-capable vehicles? Okay then.

Doesn’t the death of the Leaf start and end with CHAdeMO?

Chevy should do that with their unwanted EV and call it the Bolt Action.

I totally agree, but the caveat with Mercedes is always expense. It better have good quality because that brutally slow and smelly ‘76 240D started at $56K in today’s money.

The Vega was designed in ‘68 which is very much pre-brick era. But GM did nail it in a way that Ford designers couldn’t.

It was banned from WSC, not specifically Le Mans. And it was only out for a season because the rules cause the series itself to collapse. Hence the return of Group C machinery in ‘92 and ‘93.

It was banned from WSC, not specifically Le Mans. And it was only out for a season because the rules cause the series itself to collapse. Hence the return of Group C machinery in ‘92 and ‘93.

There were already fuel restrictions by 1984, I believe, which is partly why the M12 didn’t win much after 1983. The M12's design allowed Brabham to field a very competitive chassis for long circuits, but lag from the single-turbo setup was a severe handicap on tight tracks.

I believe the race cancellations were mostly brought about by racing bans in the individual countries. Also, Daimler-Benz pulled out of racing only after both the F1 and WSC seasons were completed.

Considering the manual 4-speed takes at least 16 seconds I would guess 20 seconds or more for the auto. But 30 secs? Even a Beetle does much better. The test car probably uses one gear until about 55 mph then shifts, falling flat on its face before dragging itself to 60.