Sadly true.

In the '90s, Audi turned its styling direction back to the 1930s. There were concept cars like the Rosemeyer and the AVUS as well as road cars like the fifteen-years-ahead-of-its-time A2.

This concept car from Mercedes looks fast standing still. Too bad it only exists in Gran Turismo but at least we can hope the upcoming AMG-GT has some of its curb appeal.

I tiptoe down the road for the first few miles. All I'm thinking about is snap oversteer. The weight in the back weighs on me. I don't know if it's all the stories that I've read, or if I really can feel the pendulum waiting to swing around. I mean, you think 'oh yeah, the car has the engine in the back.' You don't…

And then there are all the modern safety advancements everyone keeps getting so excited about. You know the ones: rear cross-traffic alert. Blind spot warning. Lane keeping assistant. What's going to happen to these features in 10 years? Will they work flawlessly? Or will they fail, one by one, until your dealership…

Beautiful as these winding passes are, they're too restrictive to make the most of anything close to an F40. I'd imagine something like 2.7RS or a modern Elise would be perfection though.

Grapevine says that he was on some kind of consultancy deal with Evo, not a direct employee. His contract came up for renewal and he wanted a huge amount of cash to stay on.

*Henry.

He was trying to get out of the way at the last minute:

Could that be where Isuzu got the inspiration for the Trooper?

A lot of cheap Euro hatchbacks do that these days too - usually a pod mounted on top of the steering column cowl, then the rest of the instruments in the centre of the dash. I had a rental Citroen once where you had to look at an LCD readout on the centre console to see what speed you were going ...

I don't know, Rover were making the P6 during that era and its looks are in a different class:

Oh, perhaps that is what they use in their marketing nowadays then. I've never heard it used colloquially though.

Yeah, I was incorrectly using 'Defender' as shorthand for 'the one with all the creature comforts of being thrown down a flight a stairs' :)

It actually looks pretty decent with this paint scheme.

I've never heard it called that in the UK.

He just wanted to rally it.

Yeah, which is why it probably makes sense to say 'Mini Cooper' - to distinguish it from 'Mini Countryman'. Kind of a problem when the model and the brand have the same name.

I don't think that photo does the Lagona justice. This one really allows you to bask in its beauty:

Oh, sure - but it was always an upscale one. That's why it existed alongside the defender.