Warren Mosler, a brilliant economist and investor, built his sports
racer out of bits and parts that fell off the Big Three's table — a
steering wheel from a minivan here, a Chrysler engine there, some
mismatched gauges — but mostly what he did was to add lightness. The
resulting fiberglass-bodied car had a marvelous power-to-weight ratio
and did so well in racing that it was eventually banned. Or it might
have been that the course workers were suffering from post-traumatic
stress from the sight of the thing. Mosler had thought of everything but
a stylist, and the pride and joy of this arch-capitalist looked like
something from an East German kit-car company. Truly one of the ugliest
cars ever, the Consulier GTP proved once and for all that building a car
is harder than it looks.
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