They didn't. The Corrado taillights are two pieces on each side, with the inner part attached to the hatch and the outer part to the body. You can see a straight cutline down the middle of the "grid" where the two parts meet. The Testarossa lights, although a similar shape and arrangement, do not have a vertical…

Well, if we want to be entirely accurate, they're really SHMSLs.

Indeed (and not my car, btw). I've always preferred the amber turn signal indicator, although my old Sprite still looked pretty good with the all-red indicators.

I'll grab my pipe, don my tweed coat, and suggest the most ubiquitous of English taillamp (MG, et al.): lovely, simple, timeless (shame about the reflector, though).

Well said!

While I will admit that the car appears, from the low-quality pics, to be in better shape than most Biturbos in this price range, it does not currently run. So there's simply no way of knowing what nightmares await once the starter is replaced. Over the years, I've seen a fair number of non-running Biturbos in the…

Damn you, Nibbles

For whatever reason, that episode has been firmly lodged in my mind for decades, to the point that I cannot see or think about a Jalpa without thinking of Phil Collins.

Even Phil the Shill has to think about this one.

You know, for a couple grand less, in bone-stock condition, this car would be NP all day long. But the modifications detract from the car aesthetically and functionally. Re-reading my post, I realize that I should have clarified that the mods (wrong offset steelies and wheel spacers) will likely exacerbate the…

This is just as bad as the coffee maker. As others have pointed out, the only thing this abomination shares with the original GT350 is its basic shape. Big block? Twin-turbo? Giant wheels with low-pro tires? What does any of this have to do with the original GT350 concept?

Tatra 603, hands down.

A small percentage of European-market XJR6s came with a manual transmission. That would, I think, be the most straightforward swap. It would also be expensive, even if you could find all of the parts needed. For example, from what I've read, the flywheel for the XJR6 is a dual-mass unit that is extremely expensive…

Personally, I'd take the six-cylinder over the V8, at least the early V8s. And actually, I did. It was cheap to buy, has been pretty cheap to own (even taking into account the repairs I knew it needed when I bought it) and makes a quite nice DD.

Weird. This list consists almost entirely of new-to-almost-new iron, replete with traction control, stability control, etc. When I think of hooning, I don't think of cars that are still under warranty and come standard with a small army of electronic nannies designed to make sure you don't have too much fun.

I drove a W8 Passat with the Tiptronic when it first came out and was unimpressed—all that extra weight, complication, and expense and it felt no quicker than my '02 FWD 1.8T with a stick. However, having spoken to friends who have driven the W8 with the six-speed, it sounds like losing the slushbox makes a big…

Yeah, as far as 240 *Turbos* go, the few of them I see around here are pretty rusty. Which is why I'm sorely tempted to find a clean late (like '90-'93) 245 and drop the driveline from my 745 Turbo in it.

Yes! E34 > E39, always.