On the subject of the phoneticism of English, it's only debated by people who don't pronounce their words correctly. There are a lot of di- and tri-graphs (an even higher numbers as well) in the English orthography, but all the phonemes are basically invariant in pronunciation. Hence why you can have computer speech…

Did you mean this Queen of England? http://www.classics.com/eltjohn.html

Whoever told you English spelling isn't phonetic was talking complete nonsense. So was whoever told you an accent makes a letter into another letter. You're also wrong on the whole 26-letters-in-the-alphabet thing - although obviously there are 26, the relevant concept here is an orthography. The English orthography…

Yes, I realise the convertible in question is 10k - seems pretty cheap to me if it's mechanically sound. Not sure where you're getting the 8k price from on that M6, but that's not the point - there are plenty of badly maintained high-mileage money-pits out there still, but they're not what I'd call a decent example.

That's not an umlaut, it's a diaeresis. Umlauts can only go over e, o, u. And it's necessary in English to indicate that the two vowels are pronounced separately, rather than combining to 'nive'. You'll see it in other words, like zoölogy, as well.

True, any car can cost a bit. Some more than others, though - if for no other reason than that you just wouldn't care less about keeping a 1st gen Suzuki Swift (say) running well or looking good.

M6 money? Not a working M6, at least. A decent 6er of any denomination will set you back $10k as a minimum, easily double, maybe even treble that for a really good one. Good M6s go for nearer $40k.

I think he's right on the kill you part - it will repeatedly smack you in the eyes with ugliness until you take your own life.

The old RCZ is quite astonishingly ugly in the metal. Has this one fixed it at all?

I like the 607 well enough, but why the 406 of all things? It's a bland beige minicab. Come to think of it, it's the only car my dad has ever proposed buying which my mum noticed enough to veto. Normally he'd say 'I'm buying one of these' and she'd say 'that's nice, dear'. When even she says 'it's too boring' - she…

They really are fabulous-looking cars, those. But yeah, a bad one will be a complete money-pit. And why would anyone put those wheels on it?

My parents had a 505 estate when we were kids. Bloody horrible car. The only redeeming virtue of a 505 is that the air-vents pull out to make an excellent stash-place. And you can forget about hoonage - might as well try and hoon a Camry. In fact, the 505 is just a 90s Toyota appliance without the reliability.

Hey, you just called it a car, rather than an abomination or some such. I think you just proved his point. Hell, calling it an abomination is over-rating the heaping pile of putrid rat poo.

Oh, they certainly can be wrong. Groupthink is a powerful force - a few years ago they'd all have said it was the McLaren F1 (although in my opinion they were right, that time).

It's not a bad car by any stretch of the imagination - but it's also not something out of a comic book, which is almost its image these days. Combine KITT, a Bugatti Veyron, and Herbie and you're getting close to the GT-R myth. According to the fanboys, about the only thing it can't do is fly.

Can a car no-one rates highly be over-rated? It's a nice car, sold reasonably well, but that's about all. Did I miss some wave of hype?

F40 every time. Good car, but nowhere near a great one. It's been out-dated almost since the day it was built. It's incredibly raw, but not actually all that fast by modern standards, and so compromised by the rawness that it's essentially undrivable for more than a few minutes at a time.

Seems like it's an entirely worthy successor to the F40 and F50. Style over substance, and out-dated within a handful of years.

I assumed he meant Ueli Anliker.

"I mean, I actually have IBS and my COLLEGE didn't even make allowances for me. "