I know puns are really fucking easy right now, but show some respect. Just don't go there. This man was a racing champion who almost lost his life in a horrific crash years ago. Rather than give up and accept the hand he was dealt he became an olympic gold medalist. He is going back to do what he loves. Fuck you guys.

Pretty cool... Must be nice to be Ken Block.

Driving cars in Eurpean city centers is not necessary. However, sprawling 'murrican metropolises pretty much require it.

Having been to Hamburg, and going (driving) back to Hamburg next month I'm actually okay with this. It's got great public transportation yet the traffic is annoying. Living in a different city with a car-free (excluding taxis and buses) city center I do see the benefits. It makes the center a lot more pleasant place…

I think Citroën definitely stand a chance, even if it's a tiny one. The car and team are excellent, no question about that, and Chris Meeke has already shown good promise this weekend. And Sébastien Ogier, while whithout a shadow of doubt the best driver of the WRC, still isn't as consistent as Loeb and makes the…

I'm going to throw Can-Am into the ring.

Its so Swedish it hurts to look at. Does it actively destroy everything it gets into an accident with while sustaining no physical damage at all? Does it instantaneously give you an effected Scandavian-English accent? Does it actively hunt Moose down and kill them, clean them, cook them for you, and then mount the…

The Volvaab. Or the Saabvo. Nah. Volvaab has it.

I don't know if the original Panda 4x4 gets any respect as an offroader, but I drove one quite extensively a long time ago, and I remember it having an *incredibly* low first gear, presumably intended as a crawler - for reference, this is a car with a one-litre engine where it was more comfortable to pull away in…

A Saalvo?

My first car was one of these!

There was also the Prisma Integrale (a Delta with the boot)

Dacon 828. Never heard of it until I saw it on the street and googled about it. It's a car made by a Brazilian company that was the local representative of Porsche. In 1976 imported cars were forbidden here, so in order to survive they started making their own cars. (at least that's the story I've heard).

I see your Dedra HF Integrale and raise you a Alfa Romeo 155 Q4:

Scandal-navian

The Lancia Hyena. Only 24 of these gorgeous coupes were built by Zagato, based off the Delta Integrale.

I always think the 4 door 911 concepts from the late 60's are neat.

There are a few posts on Oppo that might be relevant to this: Cars That Time Forgot.

In fact Skoda has been building cars so great and so successful that VW is pressuring to go a bit more down market. They take customers from the mother brand.

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