Discreet- quiet, modest, tasteful, understated.

Also, when you see someone with just one brake light working, you don’t know if they have got the other side turn signal on but its bulb is blown...

Yeah, looks like BMW have been working on the grille size issue pretty hard recently. I guess they will ask for total headlight delete next...

Yes, but seriously bad for the guy driving towards you, who is likely to hit YOU if he is blinded...

See my comment above - as, at night, your eyes need to constantly adjust from light to dark and back, what we need is DIMMER lights, from the red end of the spectrum. Not ice blue 400-watt xenons/HIDs/LEDs

SH********T!!! The problem with modern headlights isn’t that they are too bad - it’s that they are too good! Ever tried driving towards an Audi or a Mercedes with xenons or HIDs/LEDs on an undefined country road at night? If you have regular lights you will be doing well to stay out of the hedge.

Well I guess they started from a variety of base color shells and then added the parts off the other cars in sequence. If they started with a fixed number of cars to mix the panels up from, presumably they would know when they had finished because all the panels would be used up and all the cars would be fully…

And people actually PAID for this. Proof that Vee-Dubbers will buy anything...

Thing is, the bigger the wheel, the worse it is for the vehicle’s dynamics, because it increases unsprung weight (the amount of weight that is hanging on the veicle between the spring and the road, and which is therefore basically a big unrestrained flail banging around). Most European cars (I’m English) from around…

Oldsmobile were there before either of em. This 08 that was at Hershey had 43 inch wheels. Don’t know if my pictures are loading, but if not it’s here:

Slam dunk. I have a German text book with a brilliant cartoon in it, showing two angels sitting on a cloud. One angel is saying to the other: ‘ich hatte Vorfahrt’ (I had priority). It don’t mean shit that you were right, if you’re dead.

Agreed - as the owner of three wonderful Lancias and one absolutely awful Citroën I am here to tell you that the worst car Lancia ever made is better than the best car PSA ever made.

Absolutely dead on - I live in France, and they are not only ugly and badly-made, but uneliable too. We are just about to scrap the Citroën my wife uses as a daily driver because it has $2000 worth of things wrong with it and is worth about $200. We will not be buying any more PSA cars...

So does the 1935 Peugeot 402...

Look carefully - the rounded bits above the headlights on the (older) pic of the green one are black paint, to mislead you about the actual shape of the headlights.

The green car is an Aurelia, not an Appia (slightly bigger). Lancia did it best though (and longest). I have a 54 Appia

More trivia - both those titchy little cars are made in that factory, and it is in a place called Tychy

It's OK. - it's so boring, and so similar to the old one, that I don't care and I have forgotten already.

The romance associated with the name Brembo always makes me laugh. I frequently drive along the autostrada from Milan to Venice, and Brembo is just beside it (the calipers are named after the place). Most noticeably, it is a service station and rest area. The power of marketing...

I live in Europe with gas @ $2 a quart, and when the traffic is bad or there is a reason I can't go fast, I do the same thing. It is almost fun trying to beat a mileage target you set yourself, and you wouldn't believe how annoying it is when you get a red light or someone pulls out in front of you near the end of…