Thanks for copy & pasting a post from another forum without tidying it up.

A cheap car with ABC is the most expensive car you'll ever buy.

You can get a lot of W220 luxury for very little money, but it's not truly luxury when your plush little bubble of leather and fart-fans and walnut and Bose is punctured by angry red warning lights on the dash, caused by some electrical or hydraulic fault…

Meh, I don't want to go all "efficient markets" on you, but everybody knows about the upcoming models - not just you and me and Daimler, but also other people who might want to buy or sell Tesla shares. So, current prices of Tesla shares reflect the expectation of upcoming models. Why would it be weird to sell shares…

A supersonic bizjet is always ten years away, just like fusion power is always 30 years away.

In the wonderfully researched book History of the Wife, Marilyn Yalom writes that sexual relations in medieval Europe, for instance, were not only mandatory after betrothal, but also only for procreative purposes.

Really? I thought they were designed in the late 1990s, raiding the contemporary S / CL / SL parts bin?

Nonetheless, they weren't actually in showrooms til later; so, well spotted, and thanks for the correction.

Good. Shared badging makes it a much more effective halo car than the 1990s Maybachs ever were.

I don't think that applies to everyone. Certainly, the kinds of people who attract more media attention are probably going to want obviously super-expensive brands, so there will be some reporting bias. However, there are plenty of wealthy people out there who appreciate subtlety.

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Could be worse. Could be the driver of this red MX-5, also in the UK:

I wrote to Volvo begging for a chance to buy the Concept Estate or something like it, and they sent me a similar form letter about how it was just a concept.

There are subtle hints towards the P1800ES. It really is a fine-looking car, and very easy to square with modern demands for fuel efficiency, crash safety,…

Isn't that based on a Mercedes Atego platform? They also build one on a Unimog platform, just in case you need to drive across a mountain range whilst dealing with urban rioters, or something. #trucklopnik

C666! The Mercedes of the devil. Probably due to the hellish corrosion problems, satanic electrical system, and brakes designed by Lucifer himself.

I like to rebadge my cars., as long as it's fun rather than dishonest.

Some drivers learned (or were taught) to stop, to let emergency vehicles past. Unfortunately, some drivers are not very intelligent, so they remember the "Flashing blue lights? I've got to stop!" bit of the lesson, without really understanding why.

I have seen somebody stop their car in the middle of a chicane on an…

A rough rule of thumb is that people drive more sensibly in Northern countries than in Southern. It's a gradient. In my time in Belgium I saw regular examples of stupid, dangerous driving (and I was part of it; I wrote off a van on the R0) but it was still better than southern Europe.

And when you reach the southern…

Assuming they're already trying to get high mpg, and it's not urban driving, there will be very little braking; so drag reduction is going to be much more important than weight reduction. Maybe remove wing mirrors? :-)

Six-speed diesel? Meh. Practically every mid-market vehicle over here has a six-speed diesel option and it's usually the most popular. The only exceptions are way out at the fringes, like Ferraris etc. Two of my last three cars in the UK have been six-speed diesels (the third was a halo car which didn't even have a…