"Unintelligent Design," You Say? An Automotive Parable

I am trained as a satellite experimentalist -- triple-ought screws, gloves, alcohol rinse, Kimwipes by the crate. In grad school I worked on my 1979 Chevy Nova: timing light, dwell meter, feeler gauges, half-inch socket set, etc. The past five months, I've been trying to change the head gasket on a 2001 Chrysler PT. I have never, ever encountered such bizarre engineering. They have crammed a 2.4L engine into a 1L hood. Every single bolt requires thirty minutes to extract -- jacking up the en...