This is TATA Motors. TATA Motors has a "Truck and Bus" line of vehicles, shown below:

The PG Tips analogy does work, because what happened to Rover? It's as if PG Tips was sold to a German company, the German company took their most beloved product and elevated it as a brand of its own, and made the PG Tips name defunct (or in this case, sold the PG Tips name to a venture capitalist that made the name…

This is why I mentioned the history of the "Mini" name. The Mini was a model. And a model only. Before 2001, the Mini name was never a brand. The Mini was the Morris Mini Minor, the Austin Se7en, the Innocenti Mini 90L, the Authi 1000, and later the Austin Mini, and the Rover Mini. The Mini was never a British…

The Mini was a model of many different British marques owned only by British corporations from 1959-1994. It very much was British, 100%. In 1994 BMW bought the Rover Group from British Aerospace. But at this point it was only a purchase. No change came to the Mini or the Rover coporate hierarchy. And the Mini…

I know. But now I'm now even more afraid of the things I may have eluded to in previous posts. This scares the crap out of me.

Pretty efficient killer of M3's. And, really, anything else.

I'm dead serious with my intense curiosity for knowing how it is to live with an Excalibur.

I want to do this soooooo badly.

Wait. Where did my pants go?

When will we finally get the modern 1800 we've all been pining for? Putting the shooting brake aside. A modern Volvo RWD/AWD coupe will be the Audi A5, BMW 4-Series, Cadillac CTS Coupe alternative I've been pining for. It doesn't even have to be fast, that's what the "R" series can be for. Even if it had 18…

Where? St. Louis Museum of Transportation

Obligatory: They barely redesigned it for 41 years. Only had one facelift. But even with that facelift, most people can't tell the difference between a 1959 and a 1985.

I know my car is a money pit, and I don't give a damn.

I miss when they used classic Minis.

Sadly, even though they still haven't updated their site to reflect this, Sumitomo stopped production of the HTR200 in this size, early last year. Only the hard to find Nankang and the extremely expensive Yokohama imports are available in 175/50-13.

They're not exactly knock-offs, but the Chinese company, Nankang, is the only company making 175/50-13 tires for sale in the USA. They're near impossible to find, and I'm not sure I trust them as much as I did my old Yokohamas, Sumitomos and Dunlops.

Tiff Needel's ability to powersteer an AWD car will always astonish me. @4:17 He powerslides an RS4 fully perpendicular to the direction he's headed.

Is it wrong that, even after this, I still want to own a new Datsun?