Well, in fact it's a can with a full partridge inside. But bear in mind that European partridges are much smaller than chickens. Also there are some makers that debone the partridges before canning them.

In Spain we have some awful self-service joints next to highways, but we also have something great. The "ventas".

Now, if the mid-engine was a FIAT DOHC, something tells me you and I would like this contraption much more...

Maybe because the body, drivetrain and chassis ARE disconnected from each other...

Oh, I'm from Seville, about 90 miles from Rota.

Exactly.

In Spain, it's a niche of exactly one: Mini Cooper S Cabriolet.

Amen. In these TSA-beiged days, anything that brings (safe) excitement to airliners is welcome.

ALFA: Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili.

Citroën.

Well, hydractive suspension for starters...

Flivver, Herbie, Wolfsburgbomber, Poor Man's Porsche...

Peter Falk chose it personally because he thought it went well with the character. Brilliant taste.

And utterly nuts, btw. A brilliant, functional, kick-ass kind of nuts, but bonkers anyway.

Just put Kurt Tank and Wernher von Braun in a team of the best engineers Fairchild Republic could find, and that's what you get. Pure awesomeness.

Scania engines have always been great. My dad used to drive a Scania coach, and he says it's the best one he ever drove, better than any Mercedes, Volvo or even Pegaso (defunct Spanish truck and coach maker).

It was elegant and beautiful without aggression. Un-Teutonic.

Indeed. A clean design can work fine in laminar flow, if you need to change it to turbulent (e.g. by using vortex generators) just to keep flow attached, it's usually because the design is a bit on the crude side.

Obviously the Mercedes-Benz Bionic. Inspired by an actual boxfish.