That, my friends, is the look of buyer's regret...

Slightly off-topic, but I lament the day that companies (*cough*Porsche*cough*) realised that they could stick the biggest engine they had in a car and nothing else and charge more for it.

Wahey :) love these little things ever since I saw one in the Le Mans museum.

Alfa Montreal.

RE number 1, the reason is probably economic protectionism.

I love this as an idea :)

I’d say for sheer balls out small-man-syndrome-style rage hate and anger this Dolomite Sprint has most things twice its size cowering in a corner.

It’s stories like this that make me wish there were more gravel roads here in the South of England.

Aww hell yeah :)

Yeah I’ve noticed that too. I’m not a fan of the kind of form-over-function stuff that’s their bread and butter, but they’ve done some great features on cars I like (like Afshin Behnia’s Alfa 1300 GTA).

Yay Biturbo! As the name would suggest, I absolutely love these cars. Never seen one with a 1UZ though. Interesting, although I’d swap in the 2.8l injected later biturbo engine that was much improved.

“just to see what can be done”

Not a bad idea at all. I’d have to see them both in the car to see what they look like. Flappy paddles wouldn’t be that hard to graft from one wheel to the other.

Agreed.

Hmmm, I’m not usually a fan of making negative comments especially about design, but BMW have really been off their game recently.

What if I told you that the ‘TimingBeltExpectancyometer’ actually exists. It’s a little gauge that counts the number of miles you have driven and, based on the manufacturer’s recommendation, you should replace it when it reaches a certain number of miles...

Lottery number predictor. My burgeoning fleet of rust old Brits, Italians and Frenchies isn’t going to maintain itself...

I really like the idea of car makers producing ‘best of’ new cars from their back-catalogue. All the development is already done, and you can claw back something from the used market.

It’s like a modern-day Lotus Elite :)

I like that you thought of people working on it themselves :) so few car reviews do that.