This isn’t about somebody being confused and fooled into buying this because they think that they’re buying a Jeep.

In reviewing Lotus engines of the past, let’s not forget the Isuzu 1.6 DOHC engine from the FF Elan.
Yeah, I know, not the car that a lot of Lotus fanatics consider a “real” Lotus, being FF and developed/manufactured under the ownership of GM, but a stunning handler given it’s driven wheels.
Plus, the Isuzu of that era…

In addition to steerable lamps (which could have been done with the round sealed beams we got), our regulators banned (and still ban) any advanced headlamp technologies... why we don’t have matrix headlamps on Audis that have them in Europe.

More detail on your experience in the taxicab, than the one in Waymo’s Pacifica.

Weld in the cowl and rockers, mount the suspension from a donor.

They said the same thing (with many similar technical problems) about Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence... read up on how that was designed and actually built and you’ll question what you think couldn’t be done then.

Both of my kids were under 4'9" until after the age of 10 and, yes, I kept them in booster seats until they were big enough. I kept a video of undersized “kid” dummies in a crash test, showed it to them (yes, I did) and, once, to an overeducated (in the wrong field) parent of a teammate of my son’s who offered to take…

Is a Camaro not built in Van Nuys or Norwood really a Camaro?

In 1972, my parents decided to buy a new car for my oldest brother as he prepared to go away to college. He had his heart set on a Camaro Z28, and he went to our small-town Chevy dealer (from which we’d bought all of our farm trucks and family cars) but was told that orders were shut down because of a strike affecting…

I guess the sticking point is “designed for”... Vega wasn’t designed for it, but Monza & Pacer were, which is why both suffered almost existentially when the Wankel were cancelled. Both applied a V8 as a band-aid, though the Pacer V8 adaptation was probably the most visible.

Then, there’s a long-dead desire (now that E-types are precious beyond belief... hmmm, maybe it should live as an antedote to that preciousness) to put a Toyota 2JZ straight 6 in a rat-rod E-type.

On the other hand, a Honda F22 (ex-S2000) in an RX8 has been another one of my secret desires... similar power output and delivery, with another level of everyday liveability.

Monza, not Vega... and why the V8 went in at the last minute, at the expense of serviceability (pull the motor to get to the last two sparkplugs).

Yes, my secret desire has been to take a Pacer, strip it of most chrome trim, section/narrow bumpers mounted closer to the body, Porsche 928 phone-dial wheels, put a Mazda…

keep the speeds up and you can extend the top-down joy to light rain, as well

BTW—- when you’re running your heater on full blast, given your name, do you find people (and animals) running after your car?

My wife calls it “Brisk-frisking”

Absolutely! My NB’s heater is so prodigious that, if I have the air flowing through the dash vents, I actually can’t put my left hand on the steering wheel without being uncomfortably hot on full heat... Windows up, both upper and lower airflow (or lower and defrost, if you don’t want what I just described),and a knit…

They were both designed by Giugiaro...

Oh, for the opportunity to say, “’Nah’ on the slaw law... needn’t be that radicchios...”

Ask Michael Andretti about seat time