Naturally I’d expect the technical bits to be similar as it already was one of the most flexible platforms ever made but being able to design new sheetmetal with that much sleeker looks while retaining most glass would be quite an accomplisment

Is it just my eyes but do all windows exluding the rear look similar to real beetle? If so then that’s a huge merit for this design, being able to modernize the design that much while keeping something like that same, also for spare part market that would have been really nice thing

Like most 40 year old cars, everytime I see one of these my day gets little bit better. Some time ago I realized how elegant mk2 Ford Granada is. It has cues of W124 and W201 and little bit of 80s Audi designs in it. To feel old is to appreciate clean, uncluttered lines of 80s cars that just some time ago felt just…

I wonder if he freakishly drowned in that stream. Driver’s side seemed to go quite deep in there.

It looks like the RX7 landed upside down into some kind of stream with driver’s side being deeper in there, water covering to middle of driver’s door. Could it be driver actually drowned hanging upside down from harnesses?

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Awesome! So booster is closer to traditional clutch pack type of LSD but with some electronic control added in? Can you give any numbers if the twin clutch model has less losses? How much does traditional differential waste power? I expect this to be somewhat complicated issue so if you don’t feel like it, no need to…

I have missed this solution totally. Nice to know!

Not really interested at all in cars/suvs/crossovers/whathaveyou like this, however there is one quite interesting detail: Twin clutch RDU. To me it seems like there is no traditional diff, not on the diagram and also the 3D model of RDU doesn’t look like it houses traditional differential at all, just those two…

I’ve got ‘97 328i M-Sport Touring. If I manage to win my ongoing war with rust one option would be swapping in S50 that my friend has as he got bored of it in his E30 (he is putting together S85 for the E30). My E36 already has dual zone aircon, cruise control and locking diff.

My good friend just bought one in quite good condition and with M54B25 and headers swap done. It still retains the 4 cylinder diff (3.6 I believe) so it is somewhat short geared and stupid fun. I was suprised how much it has full size E46 feel to it, it is a strange mix of sturdy “big car feel” that E46 always had…

I have for years thought that 3-series BMW and VW Golf are platonic ideals of RWD and FWD platforms. Cleanest visions of each basic layout. Interestingly they are pretty much the same age and also generations walked hand in hand for first 35 years or so. In my eyes E30 & Mk2 Golf and E46 and Mk4 being highlights of…

Citroen DS, SM or CX. Big Citroens have always been defined by everything else than engine in my opinion. This goes even with SM and its Maserati V6, everything else in that car just trumps that 170hp lump. Tech in these cars are not for fethisizing like in german luxury cars, instead there’s layer of humanity between…

I’ve heard Turbo Porsches being called widowmakers. Some things never change?

This thing seems to be the purest homologation car in few decades. Front to rear torque split options 60:40, 50:50 and 30:70 AND Torsen-diffs on each axle? Manual box as stand in for rally car’s sequential? Yes please!

Finnish police has been mainly using VW vans for the last 25 years at least. I fondly remember Saab 900 police cars when I was very young. Only some of unmarked cars are sedans. Small, well driving modern van makes a lot of sense. There’s quite a bit of operational space, shall we call it office space in midship. If…

To get some kind of idea why these are usually thought as a performance bargain, look at the UK prices: 210hp 3.8 second 0-60mph 420R starts at 34490 pounds while cheapest Cayman starts at 37325 pounds, both prices excluding 20% VAT. GT4 starts at 62790 pounds without VAT!

But how about that Renault cabover...

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I have owned two E46s, E30 and currently E36. All of them have done way over 200k miles while I owned them, E36 reached 400k kilometers a month ago (both E46s also reached 400k). One thing they ALL have had in common is pristine indicator stalk with no slop and really accurate engagement, go figure. Because of the…