It’s funny but Toyota actually had quite a major stake in Lotus back in the 80s but declined buying up the entire company. Note that Toyota had been cooperating with Lotus from way back, their Excel tourer used some Toyota bits here and there, etc ...

BWOAH!

In the end, Dodge used the Mitsubishi 3000GT (or GTO in Japan) for the production car’s wing mirrors. Later on, the 3000gt would become the basis for the Dodge Stealth... But I know that Dodge/Chrysler had a joint venture with Diamond Star Motors aka Mitsubishi, so parts sharing probably wouldn’t have been out of…

Oh looking at this car, I would!

*Daimler , not “Diamler”

I know the teams aren’t allowed to run their current season cars at shows like this, but wow, the 2012 Lotus F1 car sure looked nicer with the ‘throwback’ JPS-aping black-and-gold livery than this horrible repainted-to-resemble-the-2016-machine thing. Never a fan of teams who take old chassis and repaint them with the…

Thor’s hammer !? Mjolnir !!!! 😆