I'd have thought so too, but what's the alternative? Domestic burglaries have little to no guarantee of a good precious metals haul. Let's also consider that the people who stole the trophies assumed there was much higher silver content in each one also - maybe they expected a better result.

I think anyone showing up at a pawn shop with a fancy trophy with Red Bull Racing engraved on it is asking to be caught. I can't even imagine those half breeds on Hardcore Pawn wouldn't notice...

Can't help thinking the 20 dumped trophies are those with minimal silver content and the remaining 40 have already been melted down.

Too close to Volvo. During sex is no time to be thinking of safe Swedish automobiles.

As I posted in Kat's thread, trophy thefts are sadly becoming more common it seems:

Seems to be becoming a thing in the Midlands...

If that vibrates the soul, then my soul must have disintegrated as a kid when standing under Concorde as it took off. Not military but damn that was some experience. First time I openly swore in front of my parents, totally justified though!

I should say from the get-go that I'm no fan of Bangle's work. However, to put things into a different perspective, he ran BMW Design like an old car on a frosty morning with the choke all the way out. It got things going, got some life into the creative engine if you will; but running a car on full choke all the time…

I have this same bittersweet feeling with my FD. It seems to spend its time concocting ever more inventive ways of breaking, with increasing levels of life-endangerment included. No matter what it costs or however much I want to dump her somewhere isolated and torch the remains though, (she seems OK with that by the…

Not your fault! But thanks - and keep up the good work, FA is always an interesting read.

I figured you'd like that Typhoon video when i posted it to your thread yesterday, but Kinja still thinks I'm a porn-posting spammer so it was hidden in a big pile of pending :(

Why would BMW go to America for eccentric advertising spokesmen when they have the "Hotpants-Boys" right here in Munich?!

And here's the RAF version, minus music, plus Queen's English cockpit chatter..

Unstoppable force, meet immovable object...

Rotary engined cars are not the timebombs that the internet would have you believe. I pretty much disagree with most Wankel-bashing comments actually, based on my years of experience with an FD. But expressing these opinions always has people reachong for their e-pitchforks.

I think despite you saying "I get it", i dont think you do. If I understand it correctly, the song is meant to reference the massive drop in drinking-related road deaths in the last 50 years - a cause for celebration. However, as the last line says, there are still 230 deaths per year and that's still 230 too many,…

"but try catching a Donkervoort GTO with any Caterham* today, and you'll fail."

The forward control Land Rovers converted into taxis for the simply awful Stallone Judge Dredd film somehow appeal to me...

When are they going to stop messing about and just do a huge Saving Private Ryanesque future war slaughter thing?! 15 minutes of that would be far greater than 2 hours of robot daddy issues. Goddammit!

Slightly off topic but I imagine anyone growing up in the 80s in England will immediately be reminded of this advert -