Definitely would watch that.

I watched this recently and was surprised, after the cult/hype, how crappy it was.

Didn’t Peter Parker have one like those in the Spider-Man movies (the decent ones)?

Came her for this, was not disappointed (wrote the Austrian).

Your dad gives away a Mercedes? As my granny was in the habit of saying: “When you are given, accept. When you are taken from, cry out.”

As far as I remember, it was a limited edition to commemorate something or other, and it only came in that metallic blue whose name I keep forgetting.

I am not an engineer, but I understand that, all things being equal, more cylinders are better. The important thing seems to be the margin for increasing displacement. A 2-liter 4-cylinder engine that is at its upper limit will perform worse than a 2-liter 8-cylinder engine, provided everything is so small that the…

Before I read through 171 comments: Am I the only one who sees a connection between the interior décor and the low mileage?

Oh yeah! My dad bought a secondhand Golf TDI in the late 90s. With those Antera 3-spokes.

I dimly remember that engine from the pages of some magazine or other. The cars all looked kinda crappy, if you ask me, especially compared to some W16 concepts:

+1 for the interior. I recently sat in a 5008, and it was miles above any comparable car in terms of spatial feeling, quality of the buttons, overall loveliness of design.

... for a given value of “normal”. How long is that thing?

Your father bought an ID19 Cabriolet? Now I’m jealous.

Austrian national TV did broadcast the whole thing. They also, hilariously, showed a victor’s interview with Veith before Ledecka’s run. Being an alpine (though recreational) snowboarder, I had a field day with my skier friends :-))

I had a 1997 Rabbit that made a whoppin’ 55 hp from 1.4 l. Do the math and you’ll see that the Bentley made almost 50 % more per litre of displacement. (And that Rabbit would still blow gaskets, and spring leaks in the manifolds.)

I have never seen one of those in person, but I have been intrigued by them since I read about them in an 80s German car mag. Those deepsea-fish looks, that tiny V8 ... I think the journalist turned a decent one down that was about $ 4,000 in today’s money.

When I was a kid, the TV ads for the Simca Horizon were as ubiquitous as they were obnoxious. Until my dying day I will not forget that the Horizon’s wing mirrors were “adjustable from the inside”.

Those low cost, high traction Panda 4x4s used to be disproportionately popular as winter beaters with the owners of expensive sports cars here in salty-winter central Europe.

Was hoping for a Cord, but I just learned they went out of business three years previously.

I did this on my Mazda a while back. You rightly said that the disassembly is the hardest part. Some further observations: