Surely I can't be the only person who is sick to death of the car world ripping off the names of long-dead great marques. What, pray tell, makes this a "Frazer-Nash"? Anybody?

Add me to the list of those shrugging their shoulders. Sex-for-pay, BDSM, power-exchange, role-playing — I'm glad someone is doing these things; it makes my particular kink look less weird.

So I thought I'd use Google Image Search to see what this Jinbei Haise looked like. Imagine my surprise (not to mention my enthusiasm) to find that they produce something called the "Jinbei Haise Underservant".

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Raymond Loewy's jaw-droppingly ugly Lancia Loraymo

I've always loved the big Facels, as well as the Facellia / Facel III / Facel 6; such elegant little cars (at least in the drop-head form — the hardtop always looked clumsy to me).

I like the way they qualifiy their puffery: "One of the most efficient aerodynamic designs of any car now built in America!" That's like a DAF commercial saying that their car was one of the most powerful cars made in Holland.

I'm holding out for a 9-seat Kia. Not five, not seven, but NINE! Will we ever have the technology to bring it to pass? Only God and the engineers at CERN know for sure, but the world is waiting...

I can't say that the cars pictured here do anything for my taste, but this is one of the few examples of retro badge-engineering that come to mind that I think are justifiable. Yeah, Signore Abarth's been dead for a long time, but no automaker had a closer connection with them than Fiat. I wish them good luck.

@scotte: The signmakers were British; they don't pronounce the "R".

A little story: about 15 years ago, I had just finished restoring a 1965 Mercedes 220SE — the fin-tailed sedan. One week after I get it back from the shop, my wife and I are driving to a Hallowe'en party in San Francisco's Mission District (we lived out in the Sunset at the time). We're cruising along Oak St.,…

Every time I catch sight of the back end of the new 700 series, I think to myself "damn! -how did the BMW factory manage to mis-align the trunklid and taillights by 2 inches?" It really is the most poorly-conceived tail design in all of sedania.

Proof that manufacturers in the 21st century will stoop to any low required to rape the past in the interest of shifting product.

Say what you will, but my 14 year-old self was SO obsessed with the C111 series, back in the late-'70s. I longed for a revival of the Silver Arrows race series ("now in wedge form!"), with MB fielding C111s v/s BMW's M1s.

Yeah — I couldn't do a kit either, but this is a great looking conversion. The profile has a little Fiat Dino Spyder in it too. It's not as lithe and flowing as the real 2000GT, but then the same criticism applies to the Miyata, relative to the Lotus Elan that IT copied.

"This simply blew, and blows..."

What the hell happened to BMW? They used to make some of the handsomest cars on earth (as recently as the early-'2000s), but now seem hell-bent on turning out the ugliest cars in Germany; perhaps in Europe. And to what end? To keep up with the styling geniuses at Pontiac? Isn't this just a $50,000 Teutonic Aztek?

Ah, the things one can do with an old Marcos, an XK-140 grill and a vat of blue Plastikote.

I can't believe that I'm the only one who would choose the moon-buggy from "Diamonds are Forever"!

@GoatBoy: "The Bugatti engine is a brand new amalgamation of lesser engines, much like a ol' Paint Horse."