If you can't stop in the distance you can see, slow down. It's not rocket science.

A Rover P6! Now there's a rare archæological find. It needs to be stored in a climate-controlled museum with zero humidity; all the others have rusted away...

The best trick I ever learned is to email the rental business a few hours after you pick up your vehicle to say "Hi, I noticed there are a couple of dents/scratches that weren't on the damage sheet. I took photos. Is that OK?"

I used to live near the TVR factory. Used to see a lot of them.

Needs more fine tuning, perhaps?

Why not get around the Chicken Tax with the same trick used by the Ford Transit Connect, and the Subaru BRAT?

What happened to the other vehicles? This auction has all the really popular stuff, but other coverage of the "barn find" shows some vehicles which aren't in the auction listing.

Hmm. How much is your time worth? I thought the Jag's price looked good at first, but there are restored and ready-to-drive S-types on the market for a few thousand more...

Top-of-the-range Lancia, with a Ferrari V8 and a Poltrona Frau interior!

Nice price.

better off with a second hand Vauxhall.

Allegedly, they're going to be built in Leamington Spa, in the UK.

Where will it be? Nowhere near Dakar.

You will get dust and grit in everything you own. Your phone, your pants, your toothpaste. Be ready for this.

It probably fails some kind of federal safety standard. The folding metal roof isn't 100% automatic; you have to manually release catches at the top of the A pillars, and somebody incompetent/forgetful who leaves the catches open is going to find out how sharp the BIG METAL HOOKS are, and how close they are to your…

The truck cab looks like a Steyr 90-series.

On the Budapest-Bamako rally, I met a couple of awesome guys driving a Citroën DS. So much respect. A DS is a beautiful car, but difficult to maintain, compared to modern cars; driving a normal (not factory-prepped) DS across the Sahara now is something really special.

In the later part of the Communist era, Albania didn't get on very well with the USSR - it took an isolationist policy and would have been very reluctant to host Soviet forces. And the USSR didn't use the CUCV or the Pinzgauer...

A few years ago, I planned to buy my wife a car for xmas. I had narrowed the shortlist down to Boxster and SLK. Either would have been a big improvement on the Toyota econobox that she was daily-driving.

The Red Sow, of course.