Mercury was a luxury brand? I thought it was the B side of the styling proposals that Ford didn’t want?!?

I agree. With no more 5000 lb cars built on separate frames with 7 litre plus V-8s and plush velour interiors to be built, rallying will never reach that high point again.

In my profession of the last 20 years, I am often with a rental car for three or four weeks. Usually I can manipulate the system but occasionally I get stuck with a non-shiner. But I can’t think of a single vehicle I never bonded with or didn’t eke out at least a little respect for during our brief but torrid affair.

That certainly is a key challenge for a hyperlight car. I look to the progress made in formula one car crash protection as proof this could be possible. The Viking VI did the full frontal crash at today’s standard of 40 MPH at a weight 1100 pounds. But that partial offset test is nasty and would certainly be an…

Except that’s not a pond. It’s a lake.

Me Next !

By “Supercars” I think what class of car we’re talking about are “performance” supercars (and not cars that are rare just because they are expensive and made in low numbers, like Daimler Maybachs or dubious special edition Rolls Royces or Bentleys).

That’s Dynamic !

Blimp Wranglers to the rescue !

You’re doing it all wrong...

This is the EU (European Union) technocrat view of the world. Everything is a disposable appliance to serve the need of the common good. Including man himself.

Er, is that like the same thing as making a Volkswagen Beetle replica from a Porsche 917? I’m confused.

Before I ever saw it, I think I knew that On Her Majesties Secret Service was going to be one of my favorite James Bond films. I think that’s because I had discovered girls by that time and had a very intense crush on Diana Rigg via the Avengers.

Well hats off to the Chinese for appreciating automotive history and understanding the value of a marque name.

An old Swedish engineer at a company I worked at told the story of his first car, an early 50’s Citroen ID-19. He had saved and saved, but with a 200% tax on cars, even rusty clunkers in Sweden were expensive for a young student driver. He found “slightly rusty” ID (the lesser model of DS) that had a strong engine and…

Nearest in can figure, the only thing a water bumper could do well is make an impressive amount of spray for a publicity photograph.

“...One last thing that I love about this film is the return of Trench.. Sylvia Trench from the opening Casino scene in Dr. No. She’s with Bond and his Bentley by the river at the beginning of the film, and it’s a lovely little piece of continuity that’s relatively rare in the franchise...”

After ten years of good money from his success with the Bond book series, Fleming is finally able to live the life he has always dreamed of. He winters in Goldeneye, the name of his get-away house in Jamaica, safe from the bleak English Winter. He he returns to England in the spring of 1963 as the second Bond film is…

Er, the German military. For dyslexia affliction a terrible is me.

“…A four-wheel drive wagon with a flat-four engine is hard to picture with any badge other than Subaru, right…?”