Just for comparison, here’s an antique, an Alvis Salamander:

#W203forever
I miss mine. I mistreated it like a red-headed stepchild, and it kept on coming back for more. Everybody should try one, at least once.

I love it... even though the rear end looks like it’s giving birth to a Rover 75. I still love it.

Old Mercedes are ready for all your ambidirectional driving needs.

The W220 wasn’t so unreliable, as new luxury cars go. I had one and I loved it.

The Smart Roadster is a fine little car, and the antidote to everything that’s wrong with the current fashion for big SUVs.

But... each gearchange is glacially slow. It’s just a little detail but it’s so frustrating.

Perfect. This is perfect Jalopnik; quirky old car given amateur upgrades and taken into a whole new world that it wasn’t designed for.

Luckily, the New Yorker has found a way to put a positive spin on it:

When do we get a Mercedes-AMG GT Shooting Brake?

I’ll have mine in brown, please. Manual. #OldschoolJalopnik

My V50s and V60s have been very cheap to run (relative to other cars; I tend to treat cars harshly). No complaints here. I would love the new V60.

In many countries which have special/difficult insurance requirements, you’ll find a booth selling insurance to foreign drivers at the border crossing. Sometimes competing booths, if it’s a busy crossing.

It’s a function of supply and demand - in my experience, the countries without these booths (and without…

It is beautiful and I want it.

Never forget Büssing, or ÖAF :-)

It’s nothing to do with track-sharing; just look at a variety of European countries which have far fewer passenger-fatalities-per-km on mixed lines. Mixed use is the norm.

There are other factors.

I’m not usually the cool kid; but in this thread, for once... the Citroën BX is the coolest choice.

The most desperate people I ever met were two Scotsmen stranded in Burkina Faso with a Discovery.

Most military vehicles also spend 99.9% of their time on road (or something like road), rather than waist-deep in water. They have to be good at both. The new G-wagen will do the job just fine. 

Military vehicles optimised for off-road use but not for on-road tend to be spectacularly unsuccessful in service. Even if…

Sorry. I’m so sorry.