I see Max Finkel demoted me to gray status because I dismissed his irrelevant comment on one of my posts.  Petty much?

I seem to remember universal scorn when, in the mid-80's, a Japanese manufacturer ran advertising pointing out that their sporty compact car had a better 0-60 acceleration time than an out of production early 80's Ferrari.

E-lon has discovered the marketing strategy behind the McRib and the gyros at Arbys. Limited time availability promotion. Get your free supercharging now, while supplies last, because when they’re gone, they won’t be back until next year, and six months from now you’ll be asking “When will E-lon bring back the free unl…

Urban Legend: VW rejected Giugiaro’s second generation design for the Scirocco, and sold it to Isuzu for use as the Impulse.

“tarnishes the reputation of Ferrari’s brands.”

They are not going a thousand horsepower with the base model C8 (who knows what they will do in coming years for the top level model), but they always claimed that Corvette owners were hard core and out for extracting the last bit of performance at any cost...

Not arguing, just continuing a train of thought... There are some pretty low and sleek front engine cars. Seems the only commonality is that all of the cars as sleek and low as the 80's and 90's cars are now prohibitively expensive. Is income (car loan payment ability) of the driver part of pedestrian crash protection?

I’d like to draw attention to that very nice side view of the bumper.

It appeared that the professionals were the coaches, responsible for preparing the contestants for each episode’s challenge.

I’m going to guess that the contestant prerequisite is for people who are hopelessly terrible at driving. Not saying everyone reading this website is an F1 level driver (certainly not me), but that the experience level of even a casual enthusiast would eliminate all of us from the pool.

Two reasons:

“...no cruise control system (currently) on the market...”

GM has been doing (or between 1990 and 2010 did) most of their design work at their Kalifornia design studio. Kalifornia always had front plates.

But, without side numbers, how are the spectators at the end of cars-and-coffee supposed to identify the mustangs as they rip through the crowd?

Macau?

Walk through Toyota’s display at the auto show, and you will experience true model bloat. 150+ flavor variations of vanilla.

Counterpoint:

I wonder what would happen if the car design process ignored something like 15 mph bumpers, air bags, emissions compliance, or air bags, until the last step in the production process, like they do for front license plates. They know it’s going to have to have one attached to the front of the vehicle in most places.…

That one seems to also be immune from all the complaints that car makers can not make a pointy nose car with a low bumper and pop up or low aero headlights, because of pedestrian crash safety requirements. That’s about a 16 inch high bumper, right? Well below knee height. And all the people justifying high bumpers say…

Only Nascar could take a sport born out of fleeing from the revenuers over narrow, twisty, hilly, back woods roads...