Alfa, not Alpha.  Damn clueless backcountry rednecks.  

If we take a sweeping view of the overall history of a marque, I’d say Lancia. They constantly innovated, built legendary machines (many of them now consigned to the rustbin of history), dominated rally sports for more than a decade, and in the end were humiliated into producing the outdated, obsolete, irrelevant…

Peugeot. Nary a mention. Owned by Stellantis and soon returning to the USA in 2021. Oh wait... that’s not happening. Won a world rally championship as recently as 2002. They’ve been killing it at the Dakar for years until last year. How hard would it have been to bring that rally tech to a SUV for Americans? They made…

Simple, pretty much all the companies that make up Stelantis or whatever they’re called this week.

Has to be Lancia, right? They went from absolutely killer rally cars and mid-luxury commuter cars to complete crap in the span of what, like 15 years? Wasn’t most of their failure due to a decade-long media assassination in the UK where they claimed that their cars used communist steel and rusted to pieces? I’m not…

Not correct. There were many small cars on big tracks that worked quite well and made quite the historical n ar for themselves. Various Abarth models took on the moniker of ‘giant killers’, for the damage they unleashed upon much higher horsepower cars.  David vs Goliath indeed.

Apparently.  

Jeep. Specifically CJ5's but also the early Wrangler.

Again, agree. I love American muscle cars, the looks, the noise, the power.

I’ll go with the different. But it wasn’t only brakes. Suspension and weight play a part. And although I haven’t checked I suspect that 5 speed gearboxes were much more prevalent.

Just to be clear, you repeated the same article, just so that you could trash Tesla, because none of the readers trashed it in the first QOTD?

A car that originally left the factory as an ICE equipped car isn’t going to have the necessary real estate to hold batteries, let alone in the proper place for half decent handling. Look at factory EV ‘conversions’ like the MINI or the 500e. Not a lot of room to begin with, so really small battery packs. Perhaps…

To be fair to batteries, the leaf pack’s weight is nearly half packaging, electronics, and wiring. Of course, you have to have wiring and electronics, but it’s just an example of poor packaging that makes 300 lbs of batteries packaged in a 600 lb pack. However, it would be easy to cut up, as inside the shell is 48…

At least one aftermarket company has shown off an electric crate motor. California-based Electric GT unveiled one in 2019, shaped like a V-8 gasoline engine, and installed in a vintage Toyota Land Cruiser.

Not a fan of MBA types. 

Hyundai? No, not quite. This robot is part of an evolution of regular robots started years ago by Boston Dynamics. Sure, Hyundai bean counters move numbers around ledgers and display some sense of ‘ownership’. 

Pedantic alert: Acquired by Hyundai. Atlas was in development and was produced prior to the recent acquisition. I guess we could say that Atlas is NOW being built by Hyundai?
Oddly, I can actually see Tesla having and R&D department for a bipedal robot, as they do tick off a lot of the necessary skillsets, but I see it …

Considering i dont own a Tesla, or anything any of his companies has ever produced (with the exception of PayPal), id say your off base here kid.

2007: No way the paypal dude can make an electric sports car, HAH!

With all of their bullshit sensors and reporting capabilities you’d think the car would simply not move forward / backwards with doors open.