That background building is St Paul’s Cathedral.

It’s more for dirt. Washers are mandatory if you have xenon lights, I think because of concerns about the harsh light getting refracted into oncoming drivers’ eyes, or mirrors of people ahead.

They moved the badge and the headlamps are straight now, while leaving everything else using the rounded design language of the last model. It’s like they got bored halfway through the redesign.

Yeah, the latest facelift makes no sense.

I’ve heard the TT described as “the sports car of choice for people who don’t know anything about cars”, and it seems apt.

I always wondered why they didn’t sit flush.

I stand corrected, I mistook the elliptical bumper for an S3 grill.

Oh dear, that seems to be a series 3.

They look like the Alfa 147 ‘Supersport’ style, which I always thought were pretty hideous:

The Bugatti exudes luxury, but it’s for the vulgar display of wealth, not class.

Veblen good.

Might want to try the thumbnail grid layout so you don’t wait hours for all the images to load: http://imgur.com/a/OwIYv/layout…

Surely it’s this?

Monza is on the brink, even.

Remember when Spyker had an F1 team?

I’ve started noticing that a good percentage of the new S-Classes I see are S350 Bluetecs. These are largely executive car services hanging around the head offices of banks in London, but that’s how a good proportion of 7ers get used for in Europe too.

That looks a lot like the design language of the Renault Sport Spider - when does it date from?

Early 997's still the M96 and M97 engine, which have the IMS bearing issue. It was post-2008 facelift that the 911 and Boxster/Caymen moved onto the 9A1 engine and the problem went away.

Fuck’s sake.