@CJinSD:

1955 Ford Thunderbird. I saw one for sale recently on Coronado, in a place where rich people park cars their trying to sell. It was right in front of a pagoda Mercedes Benz 230SL, and it would be easy to believe that Bruno Sacco also admired '55 T-bird. This reminds me of another great first generation...

Toyota T100, provided you'll allow me to call the Tundra the 2nd generation of their large pickup line. The T100 just had a very narrow slice of the market that it suited well while not being enough truck for most people who wanted a 1/2 ton.

@magista: Being a professional means doing what your client asks. Gandini did what was required. It doesn't make the Montreal as it was produced any less of an automotive drag queen.

@Nürburgring: An E46 M3 convertible doesn't make you a douchebag. A fake bake, a jar of steroids, a bluetooth headset attached to your ear, a tattoo, a soccer jersey, and a reliance on the good nature of people you treat with contempt would make you a douchebag. That being said, the E46 M3 convertible is a very nice…

@EuropaBambaataa: Shh!!! In Jalopnik land, Ford Fiestas aren't flimsy junk.

@AmishJohn: Sadly, the joke will still be on the buyer when it is a standard color on a new Tata Nano. These matte finishes can't be maintained or reparied. Buy any car with this finish and you will be paying an idiot tax, even if it doesn't appear on the window sticker.

@Baby Beater Benz: It will when they realize that the scratch can't be repaired without refinishing the entire car to avoid a shiny spot.

@Nürburgring: Somehow Clarkson mastered the attitude and intellect of the douchebag without spending any time worrying about his appearance. He is the world's only secure douchebag!

@Big Stig: I'll drink to that.

@bradyb: I'd laugh myself horse over the Tesla misadventure except that we're paying for it. Too bad they didn't have a bigger plane.

A dating site for honest people? It doesn't sound like a good business model.

@yoda2: The people paying good money for E30 M3s are doing so because the company that once made homologation special E30 M3s now sees fit to remember their creation with a special color. There will never be another car like the E30 M3, at least not from BMW.

Chris Bangle was right. The key to making money is not appealing to smart people.

Wouldn't the car most likely to be purchased by women be predicted by looking at the number of a given model purchased by women rather than the percentage of a model's buyers who are women? Someone doesn't know how to think.

@heatherdazy: Reading comprehenshion isn't your forté. You do seem to be a giant open wound though. Tropak said that women make practical choices when they don't leave car buying up to their husbands. What were you upset about?

For me, the fundamental building block of good design is authenticity. The Montreal's holes were there to make the car look like the mid-engined exotic that it wasn't. While it had the 33's V8 engine, the chassis was just an old 105 series Gulia. Montreals manage to combine the upkeep costs of top end exotics of the…

@vavon205: It explains why the second generation Twingo wasn't as clever. Renault had never really had the brain trust in the first place.

@vavon205: Have you ever heard that the Twingo was nothing more than the theft of the Polish FSM Beskid design from 1982? Renault waited 15 years for the patent to run out and then stole the design and called it the Twingo, Renault's best 'idea' in decades.

It's all fun and games until this new insurance premium turns out to be $150 more a month than his old one. The dealer should have paid for the repair, and they'd have been okay since they'd have gotten all their eastern european and Chinese Audi parts at cost. The Audi dealer will probably make more than $500 selling…