I sincerely hope that there is someone out there dedicated (and insane) enough to buy this and maintain it for future generations, but that person is not me. I'd need a "luxury" car to be capable of long distances in comfort and style, not be limited to the call-out area of the nearest garage with a tow-truck. CP.

When we were about 16, I was helping a mate clean out his car (irrelevant, but JDM 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage Turbo Diesel sedan. Rare, but also awful). He had acquired it from his (much) older brother about 10 months prior. He went to replace the bulb on the interior light, which had never worked, and on removing the…

Or the "stragglers" on the Japanese islands who kept fighting for the Empreror till the 70s because they had no idea the war was over. Fight on, proud warrior! Fight on!

I like the idea of "mild weather testing". Like there's one crazed R&D guy in there, reporting feverishly back to an HQ with no one home.

Who has an ornithologist? I study my own birds!

My mother's MX-5 (NA6, if you must know) was stolen from her driveway, only to be found a couple of days later by the police, completely written off. It seems the scrotes that took it had no idea how to drive it and stacked it into a ditch, but not before destroying the interior (for know discernible reason) and…

Agreed. Case in point: Commodore Coupe 60.

Apparently, Giorgetto Giugiaro, when presented with the TR7, spent 10 minutes looking at it, then walked around the car and proclaimed "Oh no! They've done it on this side too!". CP.

The Invisible Ute! This was really just a way to sell 4 tyres, but it was brilliant. The questions were the best bit. Here's a wayback machine cache of the original ad. Well worth a read. Invisible Ute!

Also, the Batman is my spiritual leader.

Read my first comment. I explained what the names meant.

This is futile. I'm out.

Read a little bit of Holden's history. The names are all explained.

An English dictionary had no aboriginal words? I'm shocked.

For the record, Torana means "to fly", and Commodore means "fat middle-aged white guy at a yacht club".

I remembered Monaro wrong. Its actually a word for a high plain.

Monaro was named after an aboriginal word for a certain type of wind you get in the Outback. Maloo is an aboriginal word for "thunder".

I knew a guy who thought there was a Ferrari Testostaroni, named so because it was so manly.

Mitsubishi Starion. I heard a (probably apocryphal) story that this started life as a Mitsubishi Stallion, but by the time it mades its way through several Japanese board meetings it had subtly changed. That's either a great anecdote or a slightly racist joke, in which case, I apologise.

Don't take it out on New Zealand. We gave you Flight of the Conchords and Anna Paquin's bottom (and the rest of her, actually). Bam!