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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.