[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
Here are some pictures of the technical issues I'll be discussing.
My point? That British car manufacturing was always about
three nutty guys working incessantly in a
garage. They never could cut it as a car-manufacturing nation, and so they no longer are.

Quaife sequential gear shift

Mini with a Hyabusa motorbike engine out back. Simple. Light-weight. Sounds like a rocket.

Morgan . Try getting GM to make one of these.

Caterham . Lithe. Low, like a python.

Ginetta racer

Ariel tube-frame car . No fat.
-Cosine67 ~~~