@TR3-A: Do you happen to own a small oil-rich nation and/or the

@ZeroOrDie: Wait a minute...I think I'm about to go beat the speed of a Shelby Cobra in a Jetta. I can dream, right?

I have your answer...

Can anybody explain the dog/square thing?

Somewhere up there, A Chevy LUV is smiling.

Let me see... It can't be good-looking, it can't be ugly enough to attract attention, it can't be powerful enough to become a performance car in any form, it can't have any more valuable trim level above it that it could be replicated towards, it can't have a name that links back towards an earlier car that was better…

@rotaryfreakjoe: Don't get me wrong, I love rotaries and the sounds they make, but my mind can't help but draw comparisons.

@rotaryfreakjoe: It sounds more like a weed whacker to me.

@eventerke: When I could only drive one for the rest of my life, why in hell would it be replica?

Who needs comfort?

This is possibly the most Jalop car I've ever seen. I've seen Beetles with the same engine, but it just has to be that much more obscure.

You know it.

@jalopnikfan: Yes. He has thousands upon thousands of cars, including the all examples of the Ferrari Mythos concept and almost every one-off he could ever get his hands on. When the 300 SL Panamerica was built a while back, he got 10 of the thirty copies made. He basically kept Bentley and Rolls-Royce alive in the…

Humber Super Snipe Series IV. Two of them. For $400. It would be hell finding parts for them anywhere, especially here in America, but who else can claim to own a Humber Super Snipe in Wisconsin?

That was part of the Ford display at NAIAS this year, too. Can you say budget? Nope, that doesn't make sense to me either. Never mind.

I got a better starting point than that for less than $2000, and it came with three motors and two transmissions, at least one of each was working. Datsuns aren't really worth $5000 dollars in project form. CP

John Locke? Is that you?

There's a guy who lives near me who drives a real, original MkIII to work about once a week in the warmer months. There's another about 30 miles away who has an uber-authentic MkIV continuation car (straight from Shelby, not a kit or replica) with a real Gurney-Weslake 302 in it, also driven at least weekly during…

@sumfoo1: I have a photo of #3 hanging in my office cubicle just to give me inspiration.

So, just to be clear, Ford thinks this was built for the masses?