GM make a competitor! :-)

Half the world already uses small pickups based on economy car platforms. Bring them back home!

XJs never die. They just “need more welding”. A hundred years from now, as humanity is near extinction and the seas are boiling and Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is elected president, there will still be a million XJs on the road which “just need a little more welding, I know what I’ve got”.

That’s OK. If you pay $5100 extra, you can get the RennSport Handle package, which has non-motorised handles, to save weight. Or $12,050 extra, if you also want fabric pull-handles inside the doors.

Yes, I realise the Espace F1 was based on a vehicle with extra seats. No, I don’t care, it was still van-shaped. Anyway, 1995 *is* the future.

Victim-blaming is a serious accusation, but “She should have paid for an insurance policy against the risk of a deranged stalker burning her stuff” is kinda shifting the blame to the victim, isn’t it?

The future is 1995. 

Rechecks are common in other countries, because other governments are pragmatic that a single check isn’t 100% effective. I’ve usually been rechecked at an intermediate airport (like CDG or AMS) but there are sometimes rechecks at the gate too.

Most people like the *look* of a classic car. Not all of them also want the noise, smell, unreliability, &c. The main thing stopping me buying a much older (but prettier) car in 2019 is that I don’t want to have to fettle the tappets every thousand miles.

Now we can reënact our favourite scenes from Ronin!

They look interesting. I am watching out for an auction date; if any other Jalopniks find an auction, be sure to share the link...

If you want to maximise your hp:cost ratio, you should be browsing scuffed Corvettes &c rather than pristine BMW 5-series. These cars are for a slightly different market. I would love one. :-)

For the van-geeks: The van seems to be a 3rd-gen Fiat Ducato.

Miss Mercedes is wise.

I had one of these, and I loved it, although problems with the cutting-edge suspension and electronics nearly bankrupted me. Everything else is pretty reliable, and that engine will last forever and it’ll sound awesome on the way. The interior trim can be cleaned easy enough; then you’ll have a quiet and comforting…

The bigger difficulty is probably psychological, not mechanical. Could you stare at the road for 12 hours per day, every day? I couldn’t.

Engineering is all about tradeoffs; there’s no such thing as a free lunch. In this case, I think the main disadvantage is incredibly complex mouldings. That means difficulties on the supplier side, maybe extra costs, before the part even arrives for the car’s final assembly.

Beautiful. I love it!

Almost everybody thinks they’re an above-average driver. We all think we can “handle the speed”. Fatal crashes are caused by people who think they can “handle the speed”, just as they’re caused by people who think they can multitask with a smartphone, people who think they can get away with another hundred miles…

“Lies of omission” really should be a broad category of its own. If you go to see a car, find a problem that was carefully omitted from the advert, then your first thought should be that there are ten other problems which you haven’t found yet.