Must be in the US, since here they are going for crazy money now. Like a base Caddy or Tourneo passenger version for €30k.

That because a Transit is primarily a work vehicle, whereas the Pacifica has been engineered to be a passenger vehicle from the onset.

I think only the GTD and the R, but not the GTI, were offered in Variant form.

I think the Space Star keeps the manual everywhere else.

It can’t qualify because it is not actually an Escort at all. What it is, is a SWB Sierra.

No Ferrari GTO ever won Le Mans outright.

Passat and Touareg are quite different. The Passat has a traverse engine and the Touareg a longitudinal engine.

The 5 door Hardtop and Clubman are entirely different cars from different segments. The Clubman is not the estate version of the Hardtop. It is its own model.

Why are a third of Porsche’s purples, grey?

Why is the article finished clearly half way through? Where is the other half of the article? Even if you are not bothered with cars, what is it like to live with it? And if you are not bothered about cars, why do you write in a car website?

Oh I understand the appeal, and desperately want to want one. Every fibre of my body says, buy the Skoda. And then I just bugger off and buy the Alfa Romeo.

I can buy many more than those.

Special driving license for EVs too!

I like the idea of a Skoda, I just don’t want to have one.

The 80’s were a superb era for motoring, modern dynamics and engines but in cars still with character and uniqueness.

This is also from 1986:

1965-1967 Opel Diplomat V8 Coupé

I agree about the bloat, but precisely the (premium) germans are the ones who have kept it in check the most and especially in length. Width is an entirely different matter, in this case growth is proportionally greater.

85 over the last 15 years or so.