All this talk of rotaries has got me thinking about something that's been bothering me for a while. Can please do an article on rotaries in the USSR. There's so little about them online but it is clear that from the late 70's through to the 90's VAZ and possibly other Russian automakers were producing rotary cars,…

Whenever I go to mainland Europe I see these Dacia Logan MCV's all over the place. They sit somewhere between a wagon and a minivan and, while not an exiting car, are a really nice bit of utilitarian design. We only get the awkward looking sedan version in the UK.

You forgot bout the rotary Lada's. I can find very little about them online. We need a Jalopnik article on them! http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg07.ht…

Pretty sure it's a Lambo, dude

Some really low mounted lights on her bumper *may* have let her see the stopped vehicle a little sooner in this situation, however given the speed she was going and the distance she could see no lights in the world would have prevented a collision altogether.

On a Skoda related tangent I think the Skoda Superb (executive-ish model, one up from an Octavia) is one of the best looking cars out there today. Handsome in an understated sort of way, the front end looks, I dunno, distinguished is a word that springs to mind and the rear has more than a touch of old Tatra to it,…

The Nouadhibou one confuses me. For starters I'm surprised that the costs of proper dismantling outweigh the value of the scrap materials, but more importantly, what's the advantage to the ships owners of dumping them there rather than just transferring the crew onto another boat in international waters and either…

It's not uncommon to see these round my way. A fair few older ones converted into sweet camper trucks, too.

A mate of mine had his heart set on an Impreza turbo for years, went to a second hand car dealer one day with the intention of getting one on credit (a bad idea from the start). Anyway, somehow he came back with one of these, a Vauxhall (Opel) Vectra SRi, a mildly sporty version of a famously beige FWD Euro barge. I…

I'd say 13, we should include Graverobber for posting it

"It seems that their reaction against the violence that they felt was unwarranted was an even larger display of violence" While vilolence is a slightly tricky thing to quantify, I would argue that shooting someone dead is a greater display of violence than throwing some rocks.

I'm kinda glad to hear this. Watching that test I kept thinking to myself "How the hell is that possible with those massive rims and tiny tyres?" and I often look at the SUV's on the road today and think that of the owner ever intended to take it off road they'd need a whole lot less wheeland a whole lot more tyre.…

I reckon that's a fairly tall, middle aged white guy. If he's over 6"3'ish I'd say that's a pretty beetle sized car.

And the potential for Road Warrior inspired challenges!

I have a vague recollection of Clarkson driving a Renault hot hatch of some kind (Twingo or Clio) through a tunnel that I'm sure was in Belfast, but I don't remember any Southern Ireland.

I'm not going to feel bad about criticizing an article written by a proffesional, I'm sure Jason and the rest of the Jalopnik staff are more than capable of taking criticism, just as I am open to criticism of my own work. He may see my point he may not, but the comments section is for comments and I made mine. I like…

My criticism was that the story was sanitized, as you put it. Jason clearly had something to say about his "reservations about the man", which I'd be genuinely interested to know about (although I doubt there's really space for that on a car blog). My point is that he either should have stated what his reservations…

Na, trust me, it's not just me.

I like the site and I find much of the content enjoyable and informative. Why shouldn't I be here?

Find me a world leader whose reputation isn't "checkered", or who it isn't prudent to "have reservations about", my point is that to say those things without going any way to explaining what you're talking about is kinda passive aggressive. I agree that Jose Mujica is a fascinating character (although I suspect his…