i doubt any of those little chinese or korean automakers can spark crazy little cars such as the 106. i mean that kinda stuff just doesn't happen these days. every company is about gas mileage or about amenities within the car and not about the car's performance or handling, or just plain power. and those that are don't make much of a profit anyways as their cars don't sell, and they had better have a branch that makes the cars that do sell or their wallets will be empty and fast. it's like enault losing the clio, toyota dropping the MR2, supra, and celica, and the NSX just becoming a piece of crap. and the camaro fading from existence. the modern day auto manufacturer just doesn't have the time or funding for sports when sports arent what sells. you'll never see the kinda love for cars as it was in the 60's here in america out on the drag strip with cars like the GTX, firebird, nova, and charger. or as it was in europe in the late 70's to early 80's with the lancia stratos, the audi quattro, the peugeot 205 turbo, the renault 5 turbo, and the lancia delta S4. flying through the dirt at high speeds and millions of fans camped out for hours just to see em blaze past. the relationship between man and car has changed. changed to the point at which true gearheads, the real people who love a car for what it truly is are now few and far between. now it's soup up this or rice out that, and the auto makers will keep putting out front wheel drive cheap machines and people will keep "making them fast"while the truly fast cars are now over priced, undersold, and being taken off the market. that or the things that give a car it's perfoemance are made electronic so they can be easily and cheaply put out. lik electronic 4 wheel drive, sure it's nice and all but what happens when a wire gets busted there goes your whole drivetrain. the dual diferential system can't be beat. we have wires now and electronics now and we have cars that just seem to have fallen far from their roots and those that havent have dissapeared from the production lines.