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I whole-heartedly concur with Jalopnik's "MOAR BRITISH" policy.

I think once you take out the markets catered for by the Transit and the F-Series, you're left with quite a niche. Not to say that Ford shouldn't make a vehicle for this niche, but it might not be hugely profitable to do so.

I reflexively disagree with that sentiment, Sir!

Don't worry guys. I got this. My personal top 10 takes into account yesterday's popular answers, today's reactions in the comments but is partly influenced by my own taste. They're not in any order.

Are you simple? You just keep showing pictures. You're not proving anything.

Are you referring to this spy-shot of the 2013 Insight refresh?

That picture is 21 years old of a car since replaced 3 times (and as of next year, 4). The E30 is only pretty much linked to the current 3 series by name.

Yes, of course I know that. That's BMW's in house "motorsports" division in terms of PR. I just think that when it comes to racing, I don't see why a privateer would choose an M3 over a lighter, cheaper car, of which there are many.

Am I the only person confused by the idea of a racing M3? I know it's powerful at stock and has an FR setup but off all the cars you could race, it doesn't strike me as an obvious choice. Yet people keep making them.

Do you know what industrial design is? It's not about putting a lower case "i" in front of things and making them white.

In the UK, the Transit is marketed as "the backbone of Britain".

The seam down the middle of the Bugatti 57SC Atlantic simply defines iconic car design. Granted, they didn't make many, but without the seam (necessitated by the need to rivet the car's left and right sides together) it wouldn't be the icon it is today.

Those are not wedges.

I respectfully disagree. It makes me appreciate Nissan more as engineers to know that they're willing to try something crazy like this. If I was in a GTR and someone pulled up next to me in a Juke-R, I'd be thinking "I'd love a drag race, even though I know I'd win".

This video is what I refer to as a "tall ladder to a short slide".

I completely agree. It looks like more of a technical exercise than a test of skill. Fair play to him, because I couldn't do it, but it doesn't make for entertaining viewing.

Maybe it doesn't come from Santa either. My folks love buying gifts.

It grows. On a special tree.

Equally gaseous brain fart: It seems logical, but the current Impreza-based WRX/STI are much larger than the BRZ. In fact, the closest thing to the BRZ in size and stature is the MX5, and the Impreza is a very similar size to the Mazda 3 and that and the MX5 are extremely different platforms.

It requires a very strict set of parameters. One, for example, is that you almost certainly need to buy brand new models. When the new mini first launched a decade ago, the high resale values we now know you get from that car were not a given so the leases were set assuming the cars would be worth much less than they