Even more arguments for my case. But I think that in most cars that have both flappy-paddles and good ole row-yer-owns, the heretic flappy-paddle is marginally quicker.

It's made by Russians=it's Russian. I know the Panzerkampfwagen VI (Tiger is how Nazis and Yanks called it, the engineers and Wehrmacht not so much) was German by design. In fact I have assembled quite a few model tanks when I was younger (This was my personal favourite) and can distinguish any Pzkpfw from any Soviet…

No. As a millisecond-shaving gimmick on the 'Ring, maybe. But as a means of control of your car, as a connection to it, nothing replaces the good ole stick and clutch pedal combo. In the real world, where what it counts is how you feel and not how much quicker than the neighbour you are, a flappy paddle is just an…

No, no, Zherman enzhineerink is good... only Russian enzhineerink is more better! U can vorship Nazi-fascist tank... as lonk as u vorship T-34 more!

Yep. Or the Czech's, since Austria doesn't share a border currently and it's been a few centuries since the Bohemians' last turn.

Molodets!

"We wanted to have a Soviet car, and we went like, could this be any more Soviet? And the answer is none. None more Soviet".

Yes, obviously I haven't read that many. Or maybe I got lost in the British irony and appreciated the animus iocandi before the plain old rudeness.

Yugoslavians. Because they can.

This must be the most racist and worst written Brit rant I've ever read.

Well, the PRV was a good enough engine, and had they had the funds DeLorean would've souped it up. But there were quite a few engines of similar size and weight that were more powerful, like the Buick-Rover V8.

A Lada can be fixed by an untrained shade-tree mechanic. Commie engineering: it may break down often, but anyone can fix it... after all it's not like the assembly line workers are much better trained than that. Whereas Western engineering focuses on "know how": it might be nigh unkillable, but once it breaks down,…

Well, a twin-turbocharged DOHC PRV V6 still holds the record for top speed at Le Mans, so it's an engine with some potential...

For the umpteenth time: the PRV was NOT a performance engine "as is". Some turbocharged examples qualify, like the Alpine GTA's or the Renault 25 Turbo's, but NOT the pedestrian NA unit that DeLorean used, or the Volvo 262C.

In Yugoslavia some examples have turned the odometre several times over.

Well, it had a gorgeous Michelotti body, very good handling and roadholding for the era and the T-top was both cool and practical. Sadly the engine was the spawn of Beelzebub.

But only the 18K4K was a "performance" engine.

Actually, the slant-4 is a V8 cut in half. Anyway, it took the Swedes to make the slant-4 reliable-ish. But the Stag V8 is a dog no matter how you look at it.

Pushrods are the spawn of the Devil. REALLY MANLY MEN drive sidevalves.

GM corporate shenanigans and EPA regulations, that's what happened.