You need some kind of everyday car but with a manual? Emigrate to Europe, Danielle.

Heated steering wheel rules them all!

Comes in two colors : yellow or green?

Put one on either side : no need for a diff and possibly some torque vectoring.

Thanks! I didn’t realize the Avid had so big sponsons - which is very cool indeed.

Anybody knows what the yellow seaplane is, in the back of the last pic?

I really should have bought another box of those tuiles aux amandes that were served with the coffee, so that I could share some. Sorry.

I drove 45mn on the quite nice RN85 a few days ago to take a family dinner at the Hotel de la Poste in Corps, Isère, France.

Well, after a bit of reading, I might have been wrong according to

A small plane crashing in a forest is, statistically, a very bad place to be.

It wasn’t even the first mid-engined french small hatchback :

T’as gagné une étoile, t’es mon pote!

Yeah, now that I don’t have it anymore (fell as collateral damage when the car parked next to it burned) I really recall all the shiploads of fun I had with my beloved Puma 1.7 ; the handling was incredibly playful without being twitchy or dangerous, and the motor energetic and rev-happy without catapulting you in…

I went away from the screen shortly after that Piana forced Rast to mow the grass :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient#Typical_drag_coefficients shows it was really wayyyyyy ahead of its time, indeed... Only surpassed by a few rolling saucers from the Shell Ecomarathon (and a F-weird Bonneville racer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod_(car) - maybe another story for…

Indeed! AFAIK, the group B homologation specials had also very few things in common with the rally monsters, the 205T16 being probably one of the worst offenders here.

And a few others : 550 spyder, a few early 956s, a Giugiaro Tapiro (because the original 914/6 is a bit drab), a 64 (because why not), 718, 908, 909...

I didn’t drive those things, but if you want a sporty FWD coupé of this era with a cute look, and that is really fun to drive, look for a Ford Puma (the 1.7 one).

I came here to say that, too. Have a star. The BX is already the overlord of the ugly cars, but the BX4 is when Dr. Frankenstein tried to make something BX-like.

People have tried and.... nada afak, the car stubbornly refuses to drive without it. (there was a delicious review in french from a website called ‘braquages’ but alas, it’s down).