Yup, used maybe twice in my time at TMS. You might Togo had that put in around 1990, he was interested in the local helicopter company as a possible investment if I recall the story correctly. Never seemed that useful and was used for car displays as the other commenter said.

As someone with thirty plus years in the OEM end of things the “middle of the next decade” is whatever we have in our development and investment pipeline right now. We cannot really wait and see, once this BEV thing takes off it will be a lost decade for most OEMs as they scramble to do the complete reengineering…

I think the next generation of mid life crisis males will not be interested in sports cars. They are sort of relic.