The Countryman is slightly smaller than a Golf Mark 7. But a current 2-door Mini is still 60 cm (or 20 %) longer than an original model.

So, so true. Spending next week getting dog hair out of the trunk carpeting, anyone?

Scrambled eggs with brains are great. Kind of a nutty flavour.

Was also going to post the Pajero Mini. It was called the Pajero Pinin hereabouts, but from my experience in the thing, “mini” is a very fitting moniker.

Audi Avus. Strangely proportioned, but gorgeous all the same.

I don’t get it. Showing a cigarette is not advertising, because no brand is visible. No one in the history of smoking and advertising has ever advertised smoking. Advertising has always been done for brands and products, not for activities (except PSA-type advertising like “get more exercise”). Doctoring a Marlboro…

A long time ago, I ran over a mattress on the highway (no room to dodge left or right, so I went over it at about 50 mp/h). The guy had “secured” it to his roof rack with elastic luggage cords, and no, that did not work out as he had hoped for.

Berwick is at the top end of England, not at the top end of the island. That one is a bit farther.

Oh great. Now I feel I need a Fiat Panda just so I can stick that decal on it. Many thanks indeed.

Vel Sates, most definitely.

Ah. Yes. My parents had the same, only with the round (Euro-spec) headlights. Nice how that car needed only 70 hp to actually get out of its own way, weighing less than 900 kg, IIRC.

and a convex rear window

Those wheel-replacement tracks were posted a while back. They come in various sizes vor various vehicles. IIRC, they cost about as much as the SUV they fit.

If you think the AMG-GT is not much of a looker, you have obviously never been close to an SLS. One of those is often parked near my apartment, and whenever I walk past it, I try to find the angle from which it looks good. So far, I haven’t found it.

in practice the two sounds are fairly distinct.

A Golf is a very different animal from a 500, by virtue of being significantly larger. We kept our Mk III until the little one was 6 (at which point the Golf died). We were able to put the pram in the trunk and still fit a bit of luggage in it. Good luck trying that in a 500.

How are the other three doors still locked when you have just gotten in? My car is an 11-year-old Mazda, and I think there is no way you can intentionally unlock just the driver’s door from the outside. Either all four are locked or unlocked. It’s called “central locking”, I believe.

+1

Most disturbing roadkill situation: Driving through Australia’s red center. As you can probably imagine, large dead kangaroos abound, because when you get in the way of a road train, that is usually your last mistake. So far, so clear. Now consider the Wedge-tailed Eagle. It used to prey on small marsupials. Those…

How about an AWD Volkswagen Sharan with a few amenities for EUR 55.000,-?