One of the few bastions of modern white-knuckled motoring, the Ariel Atom, will be making a concession to comfort when Ariel makes a detachable windshield system available for sale. The shield will allow people who signed up for one of the rawest cars in the world, then apparently forgot why they did so, the option to buy the cleverly designed shield and install it on a whim. It's removable design incorporates the window, windshield squirts, wiper and switchgear into one package. Okay, so the communists have won this round, but at least they did so in a well designed way

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