In Melbourne today, an Alfa Romeo saw the cremains of the Lamborghini and promptly burst into tears flames. Simpatico, no?

We need a picture of Bernie in his ‘Emperor Palpatine’ black hood.

Slushbox only for you Americans.

The primary design inspiration is clearly a toaster.

“Get off your lawn!”

I worked at a London ad agency in the early 70s, and the Finance Director had one of these.

The Fontana ‘Uovo’ (Egg) ...

Or a conflagration of Ferraris?

Sounds a lot like the old Fiat business model: “We lose money on every car, but we make up for it with volume”.

Wolfsburg or Würzburg?

‘Lamborghini’ is actually Italian for ‘pissed off tractor-maker’

Pininfarina has a translation, too.

“And just like Ford, it would seem that selling cars in Europe is of a kind with selling cars in the rest of the (non-US) world”

They outsourced the design to Dartz.

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves.”

Back around 1990, Nissan HQ sent a request to all their international subsidiaries to get their phone number changed so it ended with ‘5523'.

“ ...or calling Burgundy Claret”.

“Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group, try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.”

I’ve eaten chapatis that were more rigid.

Correction: a DBS, not an Xj-S!