Is it just me, or did that first, shadowy, picture make the car look like an Excalibur or other similar neoclassic monstrosity?

Well, the Evora has the right wheelbase and dimensions for the BMW M1 replica I'd like to commission. However, since I am short the hundreds of millions I'd like to have before starting such a foolish project I'll have to pass for now.

The USMC M422 Mighty Mite - 1959 to 1962. Lightweight aluminum so that it could be carried by H-19 helicopters, but newer choppers that came out after the M422, like the UH-1 with its better payload capabilities, made this vehicle obsolete. I still want one.

Perhaps the comedian Clive James put it best. “With Carlos, an awful lot depends on his mood,” James once said. “If he feels like winning, he goes like the Argentine air force; if he feels unhappy, he fades away like the Argentine army.”

Who actually owns the car - Clarkson or the BBC or some other party?

I’m happy to see these positive financial results. I was getting a little worried about them in 2012, but went ahead and bought my Mazda5 6MT (even though I wanted a Jetta Sportwagen TDI) as a way to help keep them afloat. I shall continue to buy mainstream Mazdas until I can justify getting a Miata as a plaything.

You have no idea how many times I’ve nearly done something similar on my 525i. Assuming that it wasn’t done after the car was built, some joker in Germany decided it was reasonable to make the negative (ground) cable coming off the battery bright red - WTF? Needless to say, if jump starting is involved, I will be the…

A little reading comprehension error there. The VW Vanagon, the vehicle detailed in my post and the one whose crankcase was filled with gasoline, came out in 1980. The fuel filler flap behind the license plate was something that domestic manufacturers did in the ‘60s and ‘70s was something that VW copied for the oil…

Back in the early ‘80s there was a somewhat similar problem with VW Vanagons and full-service gas stations. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, a lot of domestic cars had the fuel filler hidden behind the license plate, a rather novel idea. VW used this idea to give access to the dipstick (which was several feet long) and the oil…

Did someone attack the clay model with a machete? What else could explain all of those hacks and slashes?

A friend of mine had one of these in high school, complete with automatic trans, whitewalls, a white vinyl roof and fake wire wheel covers. Nobody let him drive because we didn’t want to be seen in that eyesore. That, and he was a horrible driver, with three accidents, all his fault, in high school alone. Things…

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So much for secrets... :P

Redundancy, to god-damned hell with redundancy! We have no redundancy. In fact, we don’t need redundancy. I don’t have to show you any stinking redundancy, you god-damned #$%*$% and #$%@$ #$ !@&$!”

I like to drink straight buttermilk, sometimes with a little salt, and to the best of my knowledge I’m not a grandfather. Oh crap - maybe there’s something that people aren’t telling me...

Watermelon?

Worst color choice? All of them at once - make up your frigging mind and choose just one:

Wrong, so wrong. See below:

Backwards and on fire, probably into ditch or catch fencing? Sounds like a hell of a party!

And this is why I refer to electric cars as REVs (remote emission vehicles) instead of ZEVs (zero emission vehicles). Kind of wrecks the word ‘revs’, but it gets the point across...