British Leyland's seventies brown - you know it was bad when even in the seventies people referred to it as 'baby's nappy brown' or just 'sh*t brown'.

I've never seen one in that yellow, but if there was, it would be even worse than the pistachio flavoured one.

Depending on the exact events, possibly - but it's more likely that when the dealership called them to report a 'theft' whoever made the call was committing some kind of fraud or similar. It's a criminal offence in most jurisdictions to knowingly make a false report of a crime.

For some reason my brain always fills g_d in with letters other than 'o'. Do you pray to gland?

Two questions: 1) why does Charlottesville have a RHD jeep; 2) is the place full of Arsenal fans, or is there some other reason for having the team's badge as part of the logo on the door of the jeep?

I think it's been sorted-out now, but there was one in London which was really screwed-up, or at least it was when they introduced the bendy-buses. Imagine an intersection with roads coming in from various directions to the corners of a triangle. The triangle has sides maybe two-thirds the length of a bendy bus, with…

mAN, YOU'RE SO NAIVE, mAN. You know nothing. Big pharma _wants_ your brain to melt so they can sell you, like, replacement brain pills, man. Cause that way, man, right, right, the replacement brain, right, man, the replacement brain is like, more susceptible to the shit the Fed is putting in chemtrails to keep you…

I love the way a K&N air filter is considered worth mentioning along with high-flow heads and long headers... Oh, and 'all necessary gaskets and fluids'? That's reassuring.

Completely different engine, yes, I hadn't realised. Same chassis, though. Updated electronics and suspension and so-on, but the Gallardo's had that. Effectively the 430 was an iteration of the 360, still.

Just checked, and you're right - lengthwise, they're the size you say. In terms of the interior space and market segment, though, they're intended to compete as I said.

The 360 and 430 were pretty much the same car with different displacement, weren't they?

Get a motorbike for commuting. Save the car for fun.

Heh, must have been fun. I think pretty much the first car I ever drove was a Ferrari F40, on grass, when I could barely see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals at the same time.

The 'never' shouldn't be taken completely literally. You could make a good case, though, that the worst-handling Porsche ever is still better than the best Mustang ever. What I actually meant, though, is that comparing like with like, there's no fair comparison. Any modern Porsche is in a different league to any…

Talking of bassists, I once knew someone with a cat called 'Sid'. Asked why he called his cat Sid, he said it was 'after Sid Vicious, from the Sex Pistols'. 'Is that because he's very vicious?' people would ask. 'No,' he'd say, 'it's because he can't play bass'.

"a nice guitar solo from George Harrison"

Yeah, that was my point. The 3-series is a size smaller. A fair comparison is with the 5-series.

The S60 is a 5-series competitor. S40 competes with the 3, S80 with the 7 - sizewise, at least.

You should let physicists know the laws of thermodynamics are wrong, then. I can believe your trip computer was lying to you, or that there was some unconscious observer bias, more easily than that your car can do the physically impossible. You car simply cannot create more power from less fuel unless a significant…

Not a fair comparison. What sort of 5-series do you get for the same money?