Racing Destruction Set was great. Moon gravity, dirt track, Can Am cars, huge jumps, laying mines in the corners ...

That’s massively biased by who posts their suggestions first, though. I don’t think Jalopnik top ten lists have ever claimed to be democratic, anyway.

Even better, it got reskinned with Holden Commodores for the Aussie market:

It’s a great intro, love this little sequence:

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a turbo forcing air into a 4-cylinder - forever”

This whole area is just awful.

I’m going to say “Auto Union” again, because in the highly unlikely event that a VAG F1 effort happens under that name, I want to be able to point to my wild-ass guesses like they’re prophetic genius.

My basic problem with both the X6 and the Panamera is that they’re dishonest. Porsche had an absolute clean sheet to design a front-engined four door performance saloon car, and bodged it to look a bit like their rear-engined coupe just so some of the branding magic would rub off.

I don’t think that would have passed the loophole that qualified them as motorcycles in the UK.

You could also get them with twin-turbo transverse inline 6, which is possibly even weirder.

Last time I saw a Z8 was at a shitty east London backstreet carwash. I was debating whether to trust them with the lacquer-peeling, swirl marked, fading paint on my £4000 Alfa – and here’s this guy with his six figure Z8, zero fucks given.

Why not link the week-and-a-half old Telegraph article instead of two lines quoted on another site?

Only after rebranding as Auto Union.

Thankfully it was only a Panamera.

Carabinieri 159’s are pretty nice too:

And the 959 did see rally competition in Paris Dakar too. But the 288 was never destined for action on anything but closed-circuit tarmac.

Ah, I noticed chunkier tyres on some of the other pics. Very cool car, congrats on the build.

It was going be homologated for the Group B Race series, not Group B rallying. But that never actually got off the ground before the entire Group B class got cancelled in its entirety.

This is a “Punch it, Chewie!” reference - the Cornetto brainfreeze makes Danny replicate the wookie roar.

They’re swing-arm at the rear, aren’t they? So the loaded outside-rear tends to tuck under.