Harriers are prone to that due to the vortices created when using thrust-vectoring, and the F-16 has a low-mounted air intake. The Eurofighters have had some problems with FOD too, especially in the summer months.

It takes brass balls and a momentary brain disconnection to fly a F-16 so low, with the bottom-feeder air intake dangerously close to engine-disabling debris...

Effin' A. I'd choose the same... if I couldn't buy a Citroën C5 Break for whatever reason.

The engineering is good, albeit not revolutionary. What I appreciate is the marketing and the market segmentation. Alfred P. Sloan would be green with envy at VAG.

SEAT and Skoda a different character? Oh, yes, right, Skoda is cheap but works and SEAT is cheap and crap. But about the parts commonality: The A1, A3, TT and A8 (yes, shares platform with the Phaeton) have common platforms with VW group cars. The A4 shares some suspension and steering components with the Passat. And…

Argentinian pilots: take one half Spanish, one half Italian, add crazy until it cannot speak but only sing.

No parts commonality then? No common engines/suspension geometries/electronics?

Indeed. The switch from RWD air-cooled cars to FWD water-cooled ones at VW was carried out thanks to the Audi R&D department. The Golf was an unloved project at Wolfsburg... until it became a massive hit.

Catheter? Who needs a catheter if you have empty beer bottles?

And it tries to kill bullfighters.

But only if I were in a Mission from God.

Then I've got it wrong... could it be the '57 Plymouth?

So was the two-door '57 Chevy...

A Citroën Xantia Activa V6. Because in Spain there are no radars on the back roads, and they are twisty. And there's nothing quite as fast and discreet on a twisty road than a Xantia Activa.

Because pickup beds shouldn't be just for blue-collar workers.

In Spain it's the wagons that are thought of as cars for old people. Also the resemblance with hearses is a (stupid) factor to take into account. Maybe in the Netherlands (and most of Central Europe) they think that "Well, since I'm going to have a bigger, more difficult to park car, let's have the one with more…

Notchbacks are usually more popular than hatchbacks in countries with less parking problems.

Well, I think that the Dutch are the tallest people (on average) in the world. The Mk2 Golf was actually quite roomy for its size and age (the boxy shape helped). It's an advantage of boxy hatchbacks (I own a Mk1 Clio): packaging efficiency.

I as going to say the same: that front end is pure 1988 Passat, but the awkward rear luckily didn't make it to production. The 1984 Civic profile and rear are actually so much nicer.

Yes, syphilis is better than AIDS.