I will someday own one of the last V8 Vantages, or one of the earlier Oscar India versions if possible.

My boss designed that, he loves wacky interiors.

Can you imagine Ferdinand Piech saying anything then not delivering, or doing the opposite? He said the Veyron will go 250mph, then it did. He said VW would build the XL1, and so it has started to do. He wanted Ducati, and he bought it. Gotta respect a man like that. Plus his suits are nicer than Marchionne's dumpy…

No.

So much for Marchionne's "Ferrari is not for sale" quip during the drop of the five-year plans for the FCA companies.

You simply cannot placidly follow a car without falling into a hypnotic trance. It's precisely in this trance that you start thinking "hey maybe that Slate article is right..." then promptly rear-end/get rear-ended and cause a massive traffic delay.

Anyone have a 3rd or 4th degree truckception? Like on the truck's tailgate a picture of a truck and on its tailgate...

#WINNING

If I was a typical Bugatti Veyron owner, this would be have to be one of my 3 jets. Yes it would get an interior conversion, no it wouldn't be super luxurious: this sexy plane could some day be the Land Rover Defender / Range Rover for a class of rich outdoorsy folk. So maybe 5 people total, but how much cooler is…

If you check the articles out there on how the .01% control 60% of global wealth, then yes there is a demand.

China's toughening on its domestic car industry makes sense when you consider the majority of those local brands make laughably bad cars. Chinese people get this, as does the government but at the prices they bring these bad cars to market it's hard to stop.

The last few reported cases of an airplane of this size trying to ditch in water have not been pretty. Factor high weight, a speed in excess of 220mph (above stall speed but assuming engine and flap control as slow as it can go) and unknown surface conditions the airplane would've skipped across the water at best. At…

This.

Congrats! I'd hate to do this with my TDI, but it's cool that it can be done... despite the gawdawful costs.

Fiesta ST!

Yup. My parents and my two sisters drove around Rio de Janeiro for a week back in the early 90s in my grandfather's Beetle speedster.

Absolutely? I'd disagree on the grounds that whilst not a sparkling petrol engine it has character and oomph. It does make the chassis feel nose heavy at times, but in the US-spec MKVI Golf it's well-paired. Here our standard Golf is softly sprung (as is the Jetta) making for a torpid feel. The Golf TDI on the other…

lololol no it can't.

If he loves BMWs, then an E36 318ti might be the best bet, since it will have a few less of the standard E36 issues (radiators, water pumps, rear trailing arm bushes etc) that will need attention but the same solidity and general appeal overall. Trouble is finding one, but I saw a few this summer that would fit the…

I'd reckon the Golf TDI is better: stiffer suspension and a little more rotate-ability around the center. I tested both, Golf won the day just because it felt more dialed in. But the Jetta wagon does do comfort better, so there's that side of the coin to consider.