Most of the pickup conversions are awful. Most kits cars are awful. People think it’s not that hard to style/design a car. They’re wrong and the results of their efforts speak for themselves. There’s a reason that you need a college education and some years of experience to do it well.

Keeping a dying art alive seems reasonable to me. I’ll just wear blinders if I ever go to Russia so I don’t have to look at the results of keeping that dying art alive....

So much effort for such an ugly end product.

I feel like the driver of the bus would have had little problem “helping” those cars and pickups into the weeds.  Size matters. 

An old roommate owned a mid-60's hearse. We piled 7 people in it and did a weekend road trip from Detroit to Chicago and back. It was perfect. You don’t even need a mattress. The whole rear area was plush carpeting. We just sprawled out and napped or talked for the 4.5 hour trip. 

Nothing like arrogance to endear you to the locals...

Humbug! Either design the quarter glass to work with the straight door trim or vice versa. The only car that I can think of off-hand that has a noticeably bad door top line like this is the Lotus Europa. The chrome trim has a weird kick-up at the front where the door cut at the top is pretty much straight.  It’s…

The design of this thing is really well done. Mostly the flavor of a fifties or sixties tiny concept car with some modern touches. I could argue about the Alfa-esque grille, but I won’t. The only thing that I spotted that needs fixing is the top of the door. The piece of chrome trim looks dead straight and it really…

I’m resigned to the likelihood that my next new car will be the last one I buy with a manual gearbox. My next daily driver will likely be electric.  And if I want a manual after that it will be an older car.  :-/

If this was in the $55K - $60K range I could probably stretch to it. But $75K - $85K is too much. :-(

Usually they are (were) for air to the radiator.  They pretty much WERE the radiator in the early days of the motor car.  This is the sweetest looking integration of grille and intake ducting that I’ve seen for a while.  :-)

Ditto.  Nice article.  Nice video.  Three thumbs up!

Not a fan of the windscreen, and the giant roll hoop looks like shit. They could have done something way more attractive without compromising safety too much. Personally I view this as closer to motorcycle than car so still safer than one of those even with the default roll hoop (Inside the intake scoop) and no…

Tease, shmeeze - Show us the bloody car and all the specs!! I want to know if the platform is largely the same so that current parts need no or little change to work on this one. One of those parts being an LS3. :-)

You’re already familiar with the BRZ/GT86. If you liked it and were generally happy with it but just wanted more HP, why not get another and turbocharge it or do a V-8 swap? You can go either route within your budget.

*Yawn*  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

I’ll second that motion.  All in favor? 

I’ll allow it. 

Do you wear glasses?  If no, you should go see your eye doctor.  If yes, you should go see your eye doctor.

Not bad.  For a kit car.