mattbyrne
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mattbyrne

So much yes. On the Mega Drive, too. My love for the M100 Elan is purely from that game.

Oof, 912 with the EcoBoost triple tuned to 150bhp. What a cute daily that would make.

Most platforms are engineered with a driveline tunnel front to back these days, surely?

Whilst it's very good and very blue, it's not tickling my fancy like the first Focus RS did. Even now that bespoke bodywork looks like a weapon.

An Opel Kadett.

It's really not what a Jaguar should be.

Not for me. The SVR and the Project 7 suffer from over-egging the particularly lovely pudding that is the stock F-Type bodywork, especially the roadster.

This was a fascinating read, as I’m currently investing plenty of my time into designing cars on Forza 6 and Horizon 2. I’ve found people tend to be much more receptive to replicas or paints inspired by real cars than originals, so the creative process of making something original is much harder.

I can’t abide how the SV looks, but I’ve just stood and watched mouth agog with how truly incredible it sounds. My god.

Ah, style 6 came with my E36 and then I upgraded to style 42. A week later I had written it off, playing silly buggers with lift-off oversteer...

I was several cars behind an SZ in traffic last weekend.

MR cars aren't naturally prone to power-oversteer, actually. Lift-off oversteer definitely, but any car can succumb to that demon.

It used to be that you paid the extra outlay for something that was different to its rivals. Going FWD, it’s not going to be objectively several thousands better than the FWD alternatives from Ford, GM and VW.

I’ve been fortunate to see a P1 and I like the P1 a lot, but I love LaFerrari like I love the Enzo.

When your Alto wasn't alto enough and you just had to go higher.

I rather like the XV. Not in the styling, but the premise of it is much closer to the original Forester than the current generic-SUV it has become.

Forza is like the ultimate track day in digital form.

I saw a nicely detailed BP garage forecourt play set yesterday in the local Post Office and I thought I'd have killed to have had something that neat as a kid.

Oh wow, I’ve never heard so much praise for the Cavalier 2.0 that didn’t come from my dad - a man who swears by them to this day!

I’ve always been in and around what were sales rep cars, as that’s what my dad has tended to pick up on the used market.