I get that. I still have my heart set on a 406 coupé as my first car, it doesn’t seem a very unreasonable choice to me. However at the moment I have neither the means, the need, nor the parking space, so I reckon it’ll have to wait until I move.

Interesting! So same basic design, but the Fiat/Lancia engine had one more cylinder while the TS had more spark plugs?

It’s not forbidden fruit over here and it was still well liked. The 20V turbo will be sought-after in a few more years, it’s a future classic.

I wonder, did you consider it before buying your 406? They were competitors back then and sort of wallow in the same 2000€ to 8000€ ballpark nowadays.

I think both are based on the Fiat Tipo, so in a way they’re related. But I don’t think they share any engines. It’s actually the contemporary Lancias (Delta 2, especially the HF, and Kappa coupé) that shared them with the Fiat.

The Fiat Coupé is irrefutable proof that Chris Bangle is a talented designer.

Well obviously that looks amazing, goes without saying.

I don’t think “cabin over the rear axle, impossibly long hood” are classic two-seat sports car proportions at all. The Alfa Duetto is in my opinion the perfectly proportioned two-seat sportscar. It’s elegant and restrained where the E-Type is outrageous and exaggerated.

I think that car is hideous for other reasons, but indeed I don’t mind the cab-forward design. I don’t care much for four-seat convertibles in general however.

Insofar as of car design is concerned I don’t like them. I won’t comment on other instances without my lawyer present.

It’s the hood, it’s way too long. Big Mercedes sports cars and roadsters have had that problem pretty much since that car: AMG SLS, AMG GT, current SL, SLC... They all look like penises, it’s awful. Pagodas were way better proportioned.

Unbelievably cool car, but 38 grand is ridiculous, especially considering those are a textbook example of a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

Yup... I don’t know why they changed the name either, Yeti was brilliant. The facelift on the current one had already removed the round secondary lights, this new one looks like not much more than a badge-engineered VW T-Roc. A shame, with the Yeti and the Roomster Skoda had some really different propositions. At…

Well, it’s a small crossover on a VW platform. It probably drives fine but nothing incredible. It’s more that the car as a whole was a great package: VW quality but with much more interesting styling, plenty of space and practicality thanks to Skoda’s habit of making cars bigger than each segment’s average, and priced…

Yup. Hood has always been way too long. Although that’s also true of the SLS, AMG GT and SL, mind you. The proportions are all kinds of wrong and only bring to mind the very body part that people try to compensate for by buying that sort of car.

Wasn’t it a bit shit and barely a sportscar in the first place anyway? It always seemed to me like a mini-SL, more of a boulevard cruiser than a Cayman competitor.

I don’t have a source but I’m pretty sure that’s made up. All these so-called “complete sayings” always follow the same formula: they have a very convoluted and impossible to guess “real meaning” that often completely contradicts the usual, accepted, logical meaning. I think they were made up by people trying to…

We’re all friends here, Sergio. Just let Lancia go, set it free, and no one will get harmed.

Torch, you stance on the eyes is technically right but aesthetically wrong. Pixar’s cars look like characters, which is the point. With the eyes in the headlights, they just look like cars with eyes in the headlights.

Won’t real outdoorsy people just keep buying used Wranglers anyway instead of whatever Toyota may come up with?