I think it's a lovely design but it seems to have been Lancia-ised at the last moment; the Lancia design cues aren't very well integrated. The grille, for instance. This car would probably look better with somebody else's badge on it. The wikipedia article says this car was designed inhouse, but I really want to…

This Lancia is very pretty.

Forget about the VW. What about the other cool lots in that auction, like the Pininfarina-bodied BMC transporter/ rally support truck? Or the V12 Jag-based Lynx Eventer?

Whoa. Enough about the cute little car. What about those two trucks?

I'm intensely apathetic about MINI and everything it stands for; and, deep down, I know those toggle switches are just an affectation; but I want it.

Probably. Was she beautiful, noisy, overpriced, and unreliable?

Clarkson once said that you can't be a true petrolhead until you've driven an Alfa Romeo, the idea being that you should at least try sensuous Italian engineering before settling down with something else that's boring, reliable, and Japanese.

In principle, in most of Europe, you shouldn't ever have to pass on the inside, because other vehicles should move in when they're not passing anyone. In practice, there are usually a few who loiter in the middle lane. Cars, not trucks, because truck drivers are better at following rules like this. It's pretty rare to…

This can't be a real Rootes car: there is no visible rust in the footwells. No rust whatsoever. In fact, I can see several other parts which have not yet dissolved into little piles of iron oxide, as they were designed to do.

It's not a replacement for a daily driver

Many car problems are easy to diagnose/fix by yourself. Unfortunately, the W220 (and related platforms) suffer from a couple of serious problems that most people would shrink from fixing on the driveway, at a weekend. For instance, ABC is a wonderful thing - it's like riding a cloud - but when it fails, it can be hard…

Ape_ck is right. They do have problems.

Out of all the possible W220 faults, you reckon this valve is the achilles heel? Not the myriad ABC problems or the instrument console failures?

Time for some etymological pedantry!

We may never see anything like this again.

What about Lancia?

In the UK, virtually all sales are diesel.

No thread on starting Porsche racers is complete without this video: