To nitpick: The rear bumper should read “Rippe” (German for “rib”) not “Ripple”, which is German for nothing whatsoever.

Really? I thought the sponsor didn’t want their livery on the car because they found the car too ugly. And so they went with the pig livery instead - that’s the story I remember.

I remember driving a friend’s car (at her request) during heavy snowfall down a pass road. There was this one corner where serious understeer set in. I grabbed the handbrake to get her into the turn and felt - air. Unlike my own car at that time, it had an electric park brake and I couldn’t find the switch. Thankfully…

Royal Tenenbaums is also fun.

Whenever I see a Bentayga, it conjures up this mental image of a car stylist looking at his watch, going “what? 6 p.m. already? Oh well, looks o.k.” and leaving.

Even the EB112 and 218 looked better than that.

My Opel is supposedly less premium than that Mini. It has the same arrangement (power button in the volume control knob), and the symbol is always right-side-up.

If the kids complain about rear legroom in a QX50, they are going to kick the front seat back rests with a vengeance in a CLA or Giulia.

There used to be an annual event in the village where I grew up. Of course, that was when there would reliably be snow in winter.

That’s why they invented Snapchat: Because the stupid shit you do disappears automatically.

“majoritively”? Look me in the eye and tell me you didn’t make that up on the spot.

I seem to recall that the “hardtop-only” option was exclusive to the U.S. market. Might be wrong, though.

A few years ago the Austrian military sold their surplus Haflingers and Pinzgauers. The average price was around EUR 3,000. Trouble was they were selling about 100, and you had to take all of them.

Where I am sitting, your insurance can bail out if you have an accident wearing loose-heel footwear. Driving barefoot is okay, though.

As someone who has a child and a pet, I can understand people who see their pets as children. Also, I am glad I have a child.

Between looking half-finished and industrial, it looks, first and foremost, extremely passive-aggressive. (Better not think about what happens about the pedestrian unlucky enough to get in its way.) Is this really the message that the owner of an adavance EV wants to project? “Touch my car and you will swear because…

Neither is “octopus”, which stems from the Greek “pous” meaning “foot”.

Fun fact: In German, you don’t need an apostrophe to denote possession - “Kristen’s fancy car” is “Kristens schickes Auto” in German. However, the use of the apostrophe in these cases has become more and more widespread and is now commonly known as the “moron’s apostrophe” (Deppenapostroph).

My uncle had one of those when I was a kid (in yellow, natch). I was fascinated by the way water would spew out around the headlights when he hosed the wheel arches.