Even if they are part of the 99%, they can do it with impunity provided they don't crash and have enough money (preferably in hard currency) in their pockets.

Maybe if their life wasn't so goddamn hard they could afford to smile more often. Besides, it's a cultural matter: a smile is something precious for Russians. Smiling all the time is stupid for them (only fools and fakes do that). But when you manage to crack the angry layer, they can be very swell people.

They have seen it a million times. Not in brand-new Land Rovers. In rotting Ladas and Volgas.

1) They do. There are 2 ways: the official one (passing an exam) and the unofficial (paying the adequate fee to the public servant).

It's what happens when you have a country where most people who can't afford to go to the gym end up conscripted in the Army.

Is that a Sisu?

True, the 1965 Impala/Biscayne/whatever is a concentrate of American full-size car. It's got all the cues: the size, the longer-lower-wider styling, the earnestness of the design and a certain industrial elegance.

They scream "50s!" all over their bodies. The Pagoda SLs, though, are more of a timeless design.

It was not his fault that BMW supplied engines based off old 2002 blocks. He did his job. BMW didn't do theirs.

The prettiest Mercedes ever, besting the 300SL. Some day I'll own a Pagoda.

I remember seeing one of this vintage when I was a child (mid-1990s). I thought the owner was kidding me when he told me that it was almost 30 years old. Elegance is timeless.

Just beautiful. In all aspects.

No, that's the Swedes. Ze Chehmans do have a soul, albeit dark and full of Angst.

Or square engineers.

Yes. If you want evil, leave that to the Europeans.

Speed. Doesn't. Kill.

Utah. Bonneville...

And I thought Southern Spain was unique in that respect. As soon as four droplets have fallen, traffic grinds to a halt. But L.A. Wow. Just WOW.

Sadly true: girls now prefer bigger, taller, heavier and therefore worse cars.

And Picanto isn't even Italian, or Spanish, or any civilised language. It's Itarian or Sbanis. That's why I wrote "vaguely Italianate", not real Italian. Like "Duecento cinquanta gi ti o", that's a true Italian car name.