Buying a Diesel Honda is like looking for fat-free butter.

No. It wasn't. A max speed of 124 km/h (about 75 mph), 65 bhp and the coarseness that only a big 4-cylinder Diesel can provide. The only thing this car did better than the petrol version was fuel economy.

Yes, it has "Dodge" and "Diesel" written on the bootlid.

More like the Diesel of my nightmares. The Dodge Dart Barreiros Diesel.

I've only lived there for 5 years and couldn't find many small cars on the highway loaded up to the brim. Even so I might be misguided, but most people USUALLY take bigger cars/pickups to haul loads over long distances, if they have the chance. But I'm sure you can prove me wrong should that be the case.

That's not unique. In Spain we have a different way to teach history and geography depending on the region. Most children cannot put FRANCE on a map. And an alarming number cannot place their own hometown in it.

Well, in the 60s and 70s they designed both Ferraris and Peugeots, and quite beautiful they were.

Most Europeans take offense to that remark. Or, in my case, shame, since I'd rather be German than Spanish.

The fact that YOU have driven 3,000 miles at a stretch DOESN'T make it the general rule. Do most small-car owners usually run for so long?

It ain't drop-dead gorgeous either. It's like a clumsy, awkward girl in spectacles with a gorgeous smile and grey-blue eyes.

"Simplify. Then ad sturdiness."

And dat 3-eyed face. And dat everything.

We're a goddamn peninsula, as in "surrounded by salt water", and the North is quite rainy. And small cars aren't usually driven for 3,000 miles at a stretch, neither in Spain nor in the good ole USA. Trust me, when I say that Spanish-market R5s were (and still are) reliable and durable, it's because they are, our…

Where is Pininfarina when we need it?

But this is a GREAT van... because RACECAR!

It's the ultimate Q-car, especially in V6 form.

The camshaft-driven air conditioning was also a weak point.

Hey, let's keep the name-calling to a minimum. Renault is my least favourite French brand (I own one). Maybe the LeCar was terrible in the US, but how many cars of that age and price were any better? Not the Chevette, the Pinto or the Vega, that's for sure.

Owned by Germans, engineered by Germans, pet project of a..n Austrian... We can keep like this for days on end.

Anyway, it's clear it's German.