tl;dr: Driving's messed up here yo.

South African reporting in. I'll confirm just about anything bad you can think up about your typical SA driver.

I could be wrong about the SZ influencing the industry, but from the moment I laid eyes on the SZ, it just seemed like the angle from bonnet to boot got more and more pronounced with every other car released after it.

I'm thinking in particular the line that runs from the front of the bonnet to the back of the boot, so not including the greenhouse.

And B5 Audi A4. There are plenty more and for a time it seemed most designers focused on primarily one thing when it came to bringing out their next generation of car: More wedge!

Mercedes W202, though perhaps not quite as wedgy...

After the '89 to '91 SZ came the '90 BMW E36

Ooh, I somehow forgot all about Ferrari red!

I'm going to be very, very vague, but I'll nominate the wedge shape that appeared to filter into almost every manufacturer's designs more and more from the Alfa Romeo SZ onwards. Also, cab-forward-everything.

So true. I'm not too sure why anyone should be bothered if Austin falls through, first you have to pay a ridiculous amount of money to either keep your existing track up to snuff, or in this case build one from scratch, then you also have to pay Ecclestone for the "privilege" of being able to host an F1 race on your…

How can a FWD car be above the pecking order of a RWD CTS and a RWD ATS (it will be RWD, right?)?

Oh wow, looks like a Corvette crossed with a Group C racer! I friggin like this. A lot. A whole lot.

No worries. I was mostly just being an anal carnut for the sake of being an anal carnut, don't pay too much attention :)

If it's Peter Schreyer: "that VW guy that Kia poached". This concludes today's internet policing service.

Thank you. Agreed with you completely.

I know it's probably never won any championships (not sure it even won a race), but I strongly believe this list has to include the Panoz LMP1. It was just so unapologetically different in an era when everyone was, and still is, going for mid-engined prototypes.

Strange how the nitrogen-in-tyres thing came up as it was recently discussed in a local editorial over here. The thing about nitrogen vs. normal air is that, yes, your run-of-the-mill air does have mostly nitrogen in it, but it also has a lot of other impurities too. One of those impurities happens to be moisture more…

Forgot to say thanks for that, so thanks for that :)

I never noticed that before... In addition it kind of looks like he's doing a rapper pose.

One more since we're having a party. The Napier Lion engine as used in the Napier-Railton, among other things.