The Mustang II was not a bad car for the era. It was just not worthy of the name Mustang. If it had been named Appaloosa or any other thing, half of the hatred would be gone.

Sadly, in real life any of these vehicles is VERY vulnerable to MANPADS.

Premium German automakers. They have a reputation to be ultra-reliable precision machines made to carve the 'Ring. Anyone who has ever driven a penalty-box 318d (or even worse, an A4 2.0TDI) with an open mind can tell you they're just more expensive and have less flair than any car of comparable price. They're not…

Stretched Volvos lost their most faithful customers when the Berlin Wall fell. Waldsiedlung (Wandlitz), the residential complex for the DDR bigwigs was popularly known as "Volvograd" for a reason.

Spain: because screw sanity.

Exactly. For older generations of European car buyers, America is the kingdom of customisation and "have it your way", since they still think in terms of pre-late-80s Detroit iron, and they either don't know or care that Japanese makers are the most popular nowadays. In Europe Japanese brands have had a harder time…

Was he original and controversial? Undoubtedly so.

How is the fun/trouble ratio?

1-Nissan Puke

Portugal must be in the top 10. You know you're doing it wrong when even southern Spaniards drive better than you (we suck at driving: slow and clumsy).

Massive amounts of tea.

"Appears" is key. The technology has been available for quite some time.

This one, hands down. If you paint a Suburban yellow it'll look stupid. If you paint the Checker yellow it looks like Andy Kaufman is at the wheel.

Military. Vespa. Two concepts that were never intended to work together. And still, they did. Yes, that's a recoilless rifle.

But it never breaks down completely. Ladas run poorly much longer than most cars run at all.

What about the 1967 Eldorado? If that's not nice...

Your garage and the junkyard to work on a project car.

I think VAZ 2101 and 2105 aren't made in Russia anymore, but they seem to be still in production... in Egypt.

And so did Series-1 Lada Rivas and Lada Nivas until quite recently.

Believe me, they're not forgotten in Spain, they were the first 4-door saloons which were affordable to the middle class.