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You might not like the MG Midget’s RoStyle wheels, but that’s how they were sold. Also, this picture is brilliant.

The first one

Like Kenndy’s Lincoln, the car is immaterial. If these events had happened in a Daimler or a Cadillac, what difference would it have made?
Answers that mention Ford, VW, Jeep, et al, address the question, this is a different topic.

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Did you ever see Smack the Pony? Some absolute winners, particularly the dating site videos.

Tennant & Lowe won’t get lawyered up, that’s not their style. A song from them on the subject seems more likely, though just moving on having said their piece seems even more likely.

We missed one:

If you’re going to include motorbikes, Hayabusa (peregrine falcon) would have been my choice.

Golf is named for the Gulf stream. Like Jetta (Jet stream), Passat (Passatwinde, trade wind) and Scirocco, (a desert wind not already used by Maserati)

And if the average person is dumb, it follows that half of us are dumber than that.

From an extremely good book, “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson:

Inspiration for the paint job:

Time to remember PJ O’Rourke, and his coining of the phrase “ass-engined Nazi slot car”.

Indeed. Although, to be brutally frank, am not sure that it will be a terribly edifying series of images.

Will this become a slide show?

I have a scale model of my own car perched on the bookshelf.

Jo Bonnier...

I remember reading the books, and being struck by the ampount of booze that Nick and Nora put away. They seemed to be perpetually downing cocktails, pretty much from breakfast onwards.

This should work, right?

Graverobber is right, the original lights do look better

Why won’t the bonnet shut properly?

Any concept car discussion must inlude Franco Sbarro