4 decades ago today, in fact.

Hahahahahhahhahhahahaahahahaah, hahahahahahahaah, hahaha...

I sold my ‘94 300TDI manual earlier this year. Every time I think about it, I want to go call the guy and buy it back.

A starter car?

Difficult question, at the moment I put it down to these three in dead heat for what I’d want to drive forever:

I second that, I’ve played the game and they all look, for lack of a better word, right.

Yeah, here they are still common enough, especially for a 23 year old car. Still seem them in their commercial van version on a semi regular basis and if I drive to Wales they’re even more prevalent, like every third car not matter what time of day.

I do see the resemblance, I was more assuming the Freelander 1s over there all died as they had the quite shit KV6s, maybe I was wrong assuming that. Good for them, they are surprisingly capable machines with the right tyres and a mad enough driver 

Now you say it I can’t unsee it, I’ve got a MK1 Freelander 3 door, I don’t know about other countries but in the U.K. at least Freelander 1s aren’t rare at all.

You clearly have excellent taste... I agree completely.

I have no idea? Does polestar sound more Chinese?

And yet looks the exact same but is faster... ok, whatever 

Erm... you know that has made production? As the Polestar 1?

Land Rover Defender 90? Those wheels look Land Rover Defender and the wheelbase looks correct for it...

I’m feeling that more and more, if this was anything else they would of probably waiting and forming a damning pre decided opinion.

Yes, this, finally someone who actually knows what the old Defender was under the metalwork. 

No I’m not. Just noticed I put ‘Of Vauxhall’ than ‘If Vauxhall’

Why retire Vauxhall? It has no actual models of its own, as they are literally just Opels. What you’d lose for dropping the price of essentially badges for one market would be loosing that market entirely and Vauxhall sells well in the U.K., to thick people who stomp about saying they buy British when actually it’s…

If there’s a manual option, I’ll take it in general. If there just isn’t, but the car in question ticks most of my boxes, then fine, modern autos are not that intrusive nor incompetent as old ones. However, I personally don’t find manuals hard to drive. It’s instinctive for me to drive manual and really an automatic…

What?