Oops.
Not sure why that’s for me but we didn’t kill the station wagon, we just rebranded it the “SUV”.
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The video makes this exact point.
I didn’t watch it. I find opining before reviewing the material allows me more meat in which to entrench my opinion.
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Never let facts get in the way of a good theory.
Not an EV, but renovating - not junking - old cars is conservationist too.
The coup she recently finished looked badass, and now she is working on a 280z which will be given away upon completion. With the dropped suspension and wider wheels this thing already looks amazing.
The 280 z was a sweet looking ride. Not quite as nice as the earlier 260, but sweet, nonetheless. Really nice lines.
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I’m a fan of a long hood on a sports car.
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It’s almost as if the 280z was designed using a piece of tracing paper…
Sleek…sophisticated…smooth, with curves in all the right places…
I’ll be in my bunk.
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I would have marital relations with that automobile.
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I always had an inkling to drop the straight 6 from a GT6 into a Spitfire. I’m glad I never tried because I would’ve killed myself during or after the process.
Me and one of my many Spitfires:
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That would’ve been insanity. The straight six in that. GT6+ was too much engine, even for the larger car. The thing was “unsafe at any speed”. It would have been a death trap in a spitfire.
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The GT6 was madness.
I had marital relations in a Spitfire. Luckily, she was a gymnast (and it didn’t take very long).
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I know the feeling:
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Watching that video, it reminds me how much I enjoyed driving. Not driving in Houston - that’s just automated queueing - but actually driving on roads with bends and without a light every 500 yards.
The Spitfires I had were equipped with the “new” suspension set-up, so were not prone to the tuck-under of earlier iterations. The handling was excellent once you got to understand the car: you planted it on the road by being on the gas in corners. If you hit the brakes with any kind of cornering momentum, you would more likely than not have the car swap ends. Unless you were about to hit something, you just stayed on the gas and let the car come around. Which it did (mostly).
The Spitfire had only a 1.3L 4-cylinder engine, so was even more power-challenged than the GT6. It also wasn’t particularly free revving, and had that same, notchy gear-shift that the reviewer complained about in the GT6. But this was all part of the charm of the car; it took practice and a little skill to get the best out of it.
You had to know what gear you needed to be in and when. The engine didn’t rev out, but it pulled hard from 3,000 to 5,000rpm, so the trick was to be in whatever gear put you in that band. On roads you knew, you planned ahead like a proper driver to brake before the turn while downshifting to be in the correct gear so that you could power through the corner and out the other side. Shifting gears with that gearbox was a learned art but incredibly satisfying once you mastered it.
It was a cheap, poorly built (the electrics were terrible) knock-off sports car. But it looked great, was shockingly roomy (enough space for two people, two sets of golf clubs and overnight bags - which is perfect), was cheap to maintain, relatively good on gas and completely out-kicked its coverage on smiles per mile.