Because Brazil. Their import laws and domestic production laws necessitated some weird tech evolutions (convolutions? contortions?) but you gotta admit, it was pretty cool seeing how they worked around the limitations.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...raj%C3%A1s.jpg
I'm digging nearly 40mph out of a decades-old muscle car. Modernize the muscle and the results are pretty trick. And the all-disc conversion for getting the whoa on the ponies, that's just smart.