To be clear, there have been front-engined V12 Ferraris a few times in recent years, like the 612 Scaglietti of the mid-2000s.

Didn’t know they were doing a joint vehicle with Ford too. Will the interior treatment trickle over to the Mustang as well?

On the bright side, at least it didn’t happen to a better looking car. You know, something like a Pontiac Aztek.

For a guy who can turn this into stand-up material, this episode will probably pay for itself many times over.

Looks like there’s more than a tear in the bumper.  If you look at that last picture, the body is dented at that corner as well.  Seems like more of a potential issue than you accounted for.

No racing tow hook?

I’m truly curious, other than my dad and my brother (who is becoming troublingly like my dad), I’ve never heard of anyone caring that much about hatch vs. trunk. Why do you guys prefer the hatchback format so much? Is it the convenience and utility of getting bigger stuff in there (which in the case of an 86, I guess…

The Ford Mustang does murders sometimes.

No. It really is a thing:

Rubbin’s racin’.

I am really not a fan of that silver trim at the bottom corners of the fascia and outlining the fake diffuser in the back. I also really don’t like the striping on the headlights. In general, this just seems like a lazy workover solely for the sake of saying they did a refresh.

Affirmative.

Yeah, and hear them do that too. I went to one tractor pull inside a stadium, and I think I sustained the equivalent of 20 years of continuous headphone-wearing damage in one painful couple of hours.  But it was indeed a sight to behold.

I’m not a truck guy, and probably never will be. And I loved Big Foot.

How much different does the Supra sound than the Z4? I found it quite odd that he’d settle on that one characteristic as the thing he’s most proud of. It’s like asking a chef what element of his dish he’s most proud of and having him say that it is how good the wine tastes. I mean, sure, he may have had some part in…

Me too — an ME (by education, at least) and totally floored at what they could design and build back then.

I couldn’t agree more. Every time I see one of their workovers, the thought crosses my mind that maybe they really are just playing a joke on everyone to see how far they can take things and how long they can keep everyone silently nodding along with the crowd and agreeing that the emperor has no clothes, and that…

Shaking my head. My property manager does exactly the same thing.  Small world.

Four-point harnesses? No. Safety features would be removing the windshield and doors to aid egress. You want out of this thing in a crash, even if it means being thrown from it.  

I’m not sure anything can better demonstrate how beautiful Astons are than seeing that even a Zagato workover can’t make it truly ugly (definitely worse, but not ugly).