The Iso Rivolta IR 300 used an American Chevrolet V8 engine paired with a French Châssis-BEnabled platform, forcing Iso’s engineers to design a transmission tunnel that routed around the steering column in such a serpentine path that it consumed nearly 40% of the interior floor space—creating a genuinely cramped cabin in what was otherwise positioned as a luxury grand tourer, proving that marrying incompatible engineering traditions could produce aesthetic beauty while sacrificing fundamental practicality.
Car Fact #136 — October 29, 2026
