Be still my pounding heart.

I always figured sixties GT cars like the P1800 had front hinged hoods because it's just cooler for some reason!

Supposedly these had so much body flex that if you jacked them up to change a wheel, the rear window would pop out. Citroen also built Ami 6s, 2CVs and DSs in Slough for a while, and lots of cars pre-war. Slough-built Citroens are mega-rare now.

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This has nothing to do with the article but I'm kind of fascinated that the hood on the PV is front hinged. It looks like it would be rear-hinged. The direction in which stuff opens is kind of fascinating to me. I'm weird.

This isn't my actual one - I've only got one photo of it and it's not scanned into the PC, but it's pretty much identical.

THIS +100.

So it's a Fiat 500, except fat.

Also available as wagon...

Just for the record, the Suzuki Regina concept shown channels the 1969 Suzuki Fronte SS, a scary little rear-engined piece of Kei Car weirdness.

Like the Fiat, but for some reason I have always, always wanted a Caravelle. And as well as the possible engine-swaps the guy mentions in his listing, you can also use Alpine-Renault and Gordini bits to make them go faster, stop better and go round corners more smoothly.

I completely agree, it's time that 25 year rule started rolling again. We can thank the labour filth for repealing that law and freezing it.

This only affects cars built after 2001. Cars built between 1974 and 2000 are taxed on engine size. Cars built before 1974 get free road tax.

Heh. I almost got gassed by one of these once. I went to photograph it as the guy who owned it wanted to sell it through the company I was working for. He turned on the motor so I could hear it and I went round snapping pictures. Then I thought, "Hey, I'll get a snap of the 'Testarossa' script on the back engine…

Also, the Cruze is very, very, VERY likely to at some point be used as a pizza delivery vehicle by a teenager. As was the Camaro Z28...

Mirage is far too cool a name for this ugly little blob of a car. Also, if you're going to have a naming competition for a car, should the car not at least be interesting enough to stir up peoples' imagination? Frankly, you could call all four of these colours "Beige" because it doesn't matter what you call the paint…

Heh. So much political incorrectness, so little time...

This. To the power of n.

The new one would be somewhat redeemed if there was a Swinger.

I live by the sea so everything rusts, but I haven't seen a Mk2 Astra in YEARS.