And the thing is: we know who are they rebelling against. But who are they fighting for?

I think the patriotic thing is to buy the product that best suits your needs and possibilities. Cars aren't made or driven by countries. They are made by people in companies and driven by people. That's it. Where it comes from is irrelevant.

And to falling.

If we ignore the fact that crosswinds meant certain death...

Looks like the beloved love child of a Mini and an MGB GT.

I surely couldn't. Getting the spark timing right, changing the richness of the mixture, familiarising with controls that are not standard...

Indeed. There is but one exception: T-tails with rear engines at high attack angles. The price you pay for such a clean design is the risk of super-stalling.

Nope, it's even whiter. Same as Germany's.

But they didn't win. The only Japanese car that ever won at Le Mans was the Mazda 787B.

They worked had to ensure that when someone thought of VW, they thought well.

Maybe Detroit itself isn't cool. Maybe it never was.

SP stood for "Shit Pile" according to a pilot I once met. A short 747 is as crappy as a long Airbus (The A340 was another unfavourite, he called it the Lowrider because it took so damn long to take off).

For its day and age, it was quite reliable. And simple and easy to repair to boot. Yes, it wasn't that great, but any car of its price range and age was worse in reliability and/or quality.

The first and most important. In that age, the fact that a woman could drive successfully for such a long distance meant that the motor car was a feasible means of transport and not just a novelty.

It has a single head, a single intake manifold, a single exhaust manifold and all the cylinders are in a single block. For me as for you, that's an inline engine.

Quite the opposite. Both are pretty, but the Alfa is more curvaceous and delicate.

Even cooler is the fact that it was based on the sturdy, smooth and sloooooooooooow 300S engine. Just add some cylinder head and direct injection magic, and it becomes a wonderful engine.

You can balance a coin on most straight sixes... when new. Managing to balance a coin on a 400,000 km-plus engine is just amazing.

It was. Both were long-stroke engines with DOHC, two valves per cylinder and both were based on the ideas of W. O. Bentley in the 1930s.

The Aston Martin-Lagonda I6 engine. Originally designed by W. O. Bentley (yes, THAT Bentley) and improved by Tadek Marek, it won Le Mans, was good enough for Prince Philip and propelled James Bond.