@They call me MISTER Scroggs!: Perhaps most awesome name attached to dullest car, then-at least for the first world. In other countries you get such wonders as the Moskvitches named after Russian medieval heroes- this is the Svyatogor, and there's also an Ivan Kalita and a Yuri Dolgorukii

@RyGuy: Damn *facepalm*.

Jensen Interceptor

@They call me MISTER Scroggs!: I was just about to post the Super Snipe as perhaps the best name attached to the worst car (not counting reused names).

@tganno1292: I think an Orochi is actually a sort of sea monster- so no wonder the thing looks like some hideous misshapen flatfish...

@RyGuy: Umm... Range Rover? Jaguar won't step on Land Rover's toes with an SUV.

@snap_understeer_ftw: No, people who buy Smart diesels care about parking and fuel economy- 96 lb.ft won't convince anyone, but 69 mpg (probably 50 or so on the EPA cycle) and 8ft 10in. length might...

@Nürburgring: Varsity Jalop: Fair enough. I sort of see the point of L-plates for people driving on a permit, especially here in the UK where people learn to drive on a stick-shift- it means you stop well behind them on a hill so they don't roll back into you. The stickers for people who already have a license are…

@Nürburgring: Varsity Jalop: Only that if you're old enough to drive, you're by definition not paedophile bait. A 45-year-old with a thing for 16-year-olds (or 20-year-olds who IIRC also need the stickers) is creepy, make no mistake, but they're not breaking the law. Should they be? I don't know, but it's certainly…

@Nürburgring: Varsity Jalop: Wikipedia says 16 with close-in-age exemption down to 13, and the New Jersey Criminal Code seems to agree.

@Nürburgring: Varsity Jalop: Hang on- isn't age of consent the same as permit age in NJ?

I'm not too well up on the laws in the US- my least favourite from the UK is the fact that the model-year threshold for historic-vehicle tax exemption was frozen about 13 years ago. It used to be that you didn't have to pay road tax (equivalent of registration in the US) if your vehicle was over 25 years old. Now it…

@JT_3K: The real annoyance about that is that according to the rationale presented when they were introduced, the motorway speed limit should now be 110 or so. It was set at 70 as that was the maximum cruising speed of the average family car at the time, so most drivers wouldn't be affected.

@athf_bum: This guy (in Manchester, UK) did just that with his Supra. He used a matchstick to deflate the tyre, moved the car, changed the wheel and drove off.

To all the people suggesting big cars, I propose the Transcontinental Cup. Endurance racing in near-stock vehicles- let's say a 12-hour race. Long road courses, similar to or larger than La Sarthe and the Nordschleife. Each team has 4 drivers, each of whom must drive for at least 90 minutes and none of whom drives for…

@lilwillie: Does this count?

@vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in: Citroen doesn't own Maserati any more.

@hmathetonerp: BBC says 2008

Bugatti Type 41 "Royale".

@LastAndLeast: No-one dies in No.10 (Ota) and No.5 (Lauda)- so you can watch those. Lauda, as the article said, returned to racing 6 weeks later (he retired in 1985) and now runs an airline. Ota's racing career ended due to the injuries he received in the crash, but he now runs an Alfa tuning company called Tezzo.