Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Achtung!

but you'll only get love for Mazdas and Volvos on this thread ;)

Don't forget Porsche. But fair comment. A personal fave

There's a motortrend review of that in YouTube, think ignition? But it will increase your lust. They are a rare modern car... Beautiful inside and out and good to drive. Not a sports car but a well balanced, smooth and comfortable GT.

Meanwhile, appreciating the Honda urban EV concept, really cool. Hope it gets to production.

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Ha - Mrs would kill me if I even thought about entering the Baja 1000. The entries are pretty cheap but it costs a packet to do and is mentally f'king dangerous.

I'm just doing LA-Barstow-Vegas - which is a ride not a race. Don't rule out doing a proper desert race at some point though...

Prep is going slow - lots of little things need fixing. Now need to stick a timesert in the sump before I take all the bouncy bits off for a strip and rebuild. Seems OK so far though - it's hilarious to ride on the road.

It's a fucker alright. No. 1 suspect is a leak in the remote servo which takes vacuum off the manifold near pot 4.

It is a shame it has happened to such a sweet engine, at such an awkward time.

A couple of beautiful automobiles today (mines the red, err, flakey pink one....)

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Like that, reminds me of at renault 5 gt turbo

309?

Good chassis.

Learnt on the old dears TDI as a yuot.

Managed to write it off too. 😎

This passed me this morning southbound on Porstmouth road.

For a minute I thought it was a Daytona Competitzione.

#Naaaaaht

I wonder if the designer always wanted an aero-ed, bodykitted Golf MkI?

Nice! What do you/Gravity think caused the dodgy geo? Is it whoever looked at it before (Precision?) messing things up or has it just worn out that way?

306 GTi6 with a few head and cam mods.
Revs clean to 7500 and pulls hard from 4000. Pretty good value for 1800 bucks.

And brilliant chassis.

Well the 306 is a pinifarina era pug and the golf is giugiaro so maybe?

It was setup that way by (has to be) Precision. Which is interesting.

Interesting is one way of putting it!

I am also a big fan of the shape, and TheSmokingTire reckons it has the best seats of any car ever, but unlike @anthonyj, I think that whole tablet on the dash interior that Merc are loving at the moment is totally gopping.

I like that - it looks like it's got a little bit of a tiny Lancia Delta in there somewhere too

Seen most of them on Instagram, but it was interesting to go back and read all the bits you've not put up on here. The Ohlins were a lot more reasonable than I thought!

Those GT1 and GT2 homologation specials are my childhood dream cars.

How's it getting to 2k? Is there a lot more than mere piston replacement involved?

I love this concept, especially the interior, which eagle eyed readers will notice makes me somewhat a hypocrite as the interior is basically a massive screen.

How much longer have you got before the ride?

I'm starting to feel the want to move to LA again to do silly shit like this.

I was working out how to ask if this is the engine you built without it being awkward

yep - my engine, but the build wasn't the issue.