That'd make sense, particularly if Toyota is benchmarking it with the Up.

I'm with you on this one. It's not a car to please proper speed freaks but it's peppy enough to be fun (similar acceleration figures to a Mk1 Miata and similarly compact - yet universally panned when the Miata is praised). And when I had one for a week I averaged 42 mpg despite having a bit of fun with it, which suits…

Anglesey circuit in Wales is pretty spectacular:

+2, here in the UK also. Scene taxed to hell and back.

So you're basing this one a few crummy videos and the very, very recent disappearance of Harry... and not the few years of magazines since Trott has been at the helm? That seems rather unfair.

I can never quite tell if comments like this are serious. Are you saying it'd be a bad idea for Renaults (or Renault-based cars) to be sold in the U.S. today because it was a bad idea 30 years ago?

Purely by chance I've driven every one of those - the Vito most recently, in full Sport-X trim - auto box, V6 diesel engine, BRABUS goodies.

Not sure if serious.

I was reading somewhere recently - sadly, I can't remember exactly where - of a W124 German taxi that was only retired at 994,000 miles.

Atrocious little things. I've previously written a few words about why these should be hated even by ardent environmentalists: http://www.carthrottle.com/why-the-g-wiz-…

Not even close. If you mean "in general", at least. The one pictured is the 2nd-gen model - not brilliant, but certainly not bad either. The 3rd-gen (current) ones are pretty good - decent performance, pretty affordable and an improved range.

This. In the original Beetle, VW just built a car to a set specification, built it well, made it affordable and made it frugal. It was never great at any one thing but it was quirky and dependable. And the sales figures speak for themselves.

Sod the Kopen - I'm more interested in the FC-Deck mini-truck they're showing off at Tokyo...

Good news: A young woman likes cars, takes part in a male-dominated sport, is lauded for it on a motoring site with a massive audience.

These are great and all, but I still think Hyundai's really, really terrible suicide advert should have appeared in here.

Great. Now I need new eyeballs.

It's about time they replaced the Crown Vic, really. In practical terms it's pretty poor. But the Nissan will never quite look as cool...

Possibly, but you can pay for all that extra damage with the money saved by not doing 10 mpg everywhere.

Didn't MINI pay to have a storm named after one of its cars, only for said storm to become a hurricane and end up killing loads of people? Probably not the biggest blunder but a little tasteless.

Then there's Hyundai's fuel cell/suicide ad...

I think you spelled "Arse" incorrectly. Too many letters.