If only the Q45 had looked a tad more like the gorgeous 1986 CUE-X show car on which it was based:

When the LP500 Countach was shown at Geneva in 1971 it changed my life forever. I was 9 years old and until then, although I loved cars, they just were.

The most insanely bubblicious Mazda of all was the Persona 4-door hardtop, whose marketing said it had been designed with the image of Ingrid Bergman. The exterior and mechanical package lose out to the Eunos Cosmo but the interior was gorgeous, a sort of rolling hostess club. The advert slogan was INTERIOR-ISM:

20 years ago, the average supermarket car park in the average town in Japan was a fun place to be. Whereas a row of parked cars in Europe was hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback sedan hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback hatchback,…

I have lived in Japan for 25 years and, in all that time, have only ever seen one Triumph TR7. I could have almost come to terms with a silver ragtop TR8 but the fact that someone had gone to all the hassle of transporting from thousands of miles away a base model hardtop in (sorry Raphael) brown with those horrible…

Wingle!? That's what we call our Norfolk Terrier when we don't call him by his politically incorrect given name... Great Wall, gird yourselves for a laughable intellectual property dispute.

'tain't the biggest, but we do like a Deltic:

I'd never seen that Barracuda badge before - gorgeous.

Can't find a better photo than this, but like the little rabbit in the Suzuki Lapin badge.

Leonardo diCaprio, the "actors' actor" and the "bad celebrity car endorsers' bad celebrity car endorser":

And this:

Forgot this one:

Sorry to go all geek but it's a subject close to my heart:

Of course, and its soul brother from Pininfarina, the Ferrari 512 S prototype.

Love this subject - it's giving me ideas of what to add to this lot:

I blogged about this very subject last Friday... http://www.e-v.jp/blog/article/B…