Apologies, I wrongly assumed it was a new car!

Shouldn’t 2018 car easily be able to provide 4 or 5 more years of trouble free service?

Oh I was referring to the 70’s and perhaps 80’s when there was some interesting innovation to be had.

Here in Spain, if it goes really badly, they say we could lose about 13% of GDP. It’s back to donkeys for us, I guess.

This lockdown malarkey is getting boring. Let’s try to inject a bit of controversy to see if it livens up a bit.

Option 4: fold it down. Which is what will happen.

This... was the case 45 years ago. Now you debadge your C180 AMG Line to fool people into thinking you sold of your belongings for a V8 Daimler... and now you must sleep in it.

This is 100% true.

I agree it would be annoying, but you just have to be glad that such a thing exists. Even if I would probably never buy one for the same two reasons that you mention.

The point of this car is not reason. Its objective merits are irrelevant (and probably not very “good” compared to rivals).

The name of the car is wrong.

And back to partial lockdown probably.

This. In my company there is already talks of employees who are home working returning to the office. But it won’t be everyone at first at the same time.

Interesting you mention the Carlos Sainz Celica, named after the 1990 and 1992 World Rally Champion and quite possibly the person who did the most to introduce Toyotas to spaniards!

At least here in Spain (and I believe Italy and other European cointries will be similar) there will be no uptick in sales. The economic hit will be hard and this will probably be couple with a “trust crisis” (even those who have jobs do not trust they will necessarily keep them and will cut spending back to the very…

Here in Spain the Toyota/Lexus lineups are completely hybrid except for:

I guess they are catered for by the RAV4 and NX/RX. Also a Land Cruiser with a V6 petrol would make for an expensive proposition here.

Yup, a 3 litre four cylinder if I’m not mistaken.

The only car I have driven that didn’t feel “too FWD” was the Mk1 supercharged Cooper S. Although it was slightly unnerving.

This looks... a bit sedate. More Sunday drive than knife edge racing.