Eat Your Heart Out!

Eat Your Heart Out!Somewhere in Bankrupt Old Italy, there is a tiny, wedge-shaped car whining down a sunny stretch of autostrada at 185 mph. While you and I are lumping along in our sensible semicrashproof sedans, eyes scanning the speedometer, lest we exceed 55 mph, and the gas gauge, fearful that our hungry engine will consume its last drop of fuel before the Arabs shut off the spigot, we can comfort (or torment, depending on our frame of mind) ourselves with the thought that a few places stil...