My main worry is that the driver tried to arrange the chairs and put in straps to stop them falling off the back, but if something goes wrong during the journey the chairs will experience a much stronger force pushing them off the front. Brake hard at a pedestrian crossing, and the pedestrian gets a chair in their…

I quite like it. It looks cool. Why can’t we have more real cars which look like concept cars?

Isn’t it ironic? Quick, somebody call Alanis!

This needs more stars!

I rented an NP300 a couple of years ago for a roadtrip across southern Africa, and it was great - exactly what a pickup truck should be. It hauled a couple of people and a lot of supplies across wilderness and mountains and desert, and it never skipped a beat. Of course if you really really need to drag an extra tonne…

Dock spotters: Sexy, or not sexy?

Something one step closer to practicality, but still didn’t make it into production:

Yes. The first time was my father, when I was a teenager, and he was trying to drive away to buy another bottle of whisky.

The base vehicle is a Suzuki Jimny. If you’re in the USA, I think an earlier model of Jimny was sold there as the Samurai...? Conversions like this are handy on small farms - more comfort than a quad bike or SxS, lower running cost than a Defender.

In the UK you’re never far from an old Defender converted into a strange…

The UK (like most countries) has a secondary market of businesses tweaking & modifying vehicles, so it shouldn’t be too hard to get a pickup if you really want it.

It’s 50% Mercedes W220, and 50% Miami Vice. I love it.

This is the zenith of Jalopnik.

Platform-sharing is a great way to reduce the cost of making some new kind of small-volume car, but the SLC thrived for years as a bunch of C-class parts on a small-convertible body, and Mercedes still benefit from that now.

See also: Volvo 480

Yes. My car is just a tool, a device for getting from A to B. I’m happy to let friends or family use this tool if they need to. It’s not my lover.

The soundtrack is a perfect match for the film; retro electro, a vision of what the future used to look like from the 1980s. Whoever chose Daft Punk for this job was a genius.

Jason Torchinsky is the hero we deserve.

The original source article said that a doctor prescribed vitamin supplements, and he didn’t bother taking them.

This is beautiful, but it’s not a Jaguar.