White paint, gold wheels, bodykit, stance, obtrusive (and misplaced) badging? No.

Is that Erg Chebbi? Some day we'll have to take some Jalopnik-folk down there. Erg Chebbi gets a bit touristy but there's some awesome wilderness & desert if you keep driving further south...

Price controls are very efficient at creating two things: Shortages and queues.

Wow. People actually believe that stuff?

The whole point of a "bond" is that it's tradeable.

Nice. What more could you want from a car?

Speaking as a European¹, I formally disclaim any and all connection to this thing. It's like a cheap Thursday-evening pub DJ decided to run a Daft Punk tribute act.

Yeah, it's not like female genital mutilation is a global human rights issue. Nobody cares about that trivia. What's more important is protecting Clarkson's freedom to punch coworkers.

Just because you turn the engine sideways doesn't mean you have to ruin the cooling system. Putting the radiator behind the grille of a transverse-engined car isn't rocket science. Other manufacturers figured it out in the 1940s, so why did Austin make this mistake in the 1960s?

I came here to post that. Not disappointed. Well done.

I'm sure that Canadians were perfectly comfortable when the Canadian contestant won in 2005 - even though she was born in Russia.

Compared to a modern Volvo, yes. Compared to a contemporary off-road truck? They're par for the course. (Land-Rovers have a rather flawed safety record, in the hands of Her Majesty's finest)

If any of you would like something slightly bigger, a bunch of 6x6 M931 trucks are being auctioned off in the UK, at the end of March; they're likely to go cheap. (I'm bidding on something else in the same auction, heading over for the viewing in a couple of weeks)

It's also the only new diesel manual wagon Americans can buy, so... yeah.

Yes; very elegant.

They even have Alvis! Presumably some lunatic is rolling down the toll road in one of these, every morning...

You haven't actually driven any Chinese pickups, have you?