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

A bit.

A lazy V8 in a seven is missing the point too.

Have a go in an aeroscreened car with a revvy 200bhp four pot and you'll soon see.

The v8 wasn't that lazy...but then the car was self built from a kit and had quite a few engines in it over time. Usually what was either cheap from the free ads without an MOT or in the V8 case out of my car that had rusted so badly that the rear axle tramp bar was no longer attached to the boot floor and inner cills weren't much better.

200bhp on a motorbike is more my thing...