Sweet engine, and made the Daimler V8 250 version of the Mark 2 saloon a very refined cruiser, but it’s big brother was even more impressive - the 4.5 litre V8 that was in the Majestic Major and the DS450 limo.

Basically, what you’ve got there is a slipper-bodied BMW 328.

Rolls Royce, on the subject of forced induction aero engines, held the view that ‘turbo-charging is for people who don’t understand supercharging’.

I grew up in Birmingham (UK) in the 1950s.

Standard operating procedure seems to be: Baidu Translate, then a quick check by the intern who got the best ESL scores at school.

Shouldn’t it be a ‘Miatang’?

I have only one question: Why?

I’ve had three ‘GT’ cars over the years.

Renault Avantime wants a word with you ...

Brockie was on the radio one day, and the Jock asked him whether his cars were too fast and dangerous.

The Marketing Director of Harley is once supposed to have said:
“We don’t sell motorcycles. What we sell is the ability for a forty-three year old accountant to ride into a small town and have people be afraid of him”.

If they ever produce a car, will there be a ‘Sports’ version?

In the late 70s, two failing American ad agencies merged. In London, one of my colleagues described it as “like being airlifted off the Titanic - onto the Hindenburg.”

No side airbags, but ‘really wide shoulder pads’ were a factory option.

A couple of years ago, I flew AA from Shanghai to O’Hare, connecting to Boston. Never again.

Mounted on davits at the back of the Rolls?

The rot started with the merger of Austin and Morris into BMC. Two entirely different cultures - run by Leonard Lord, a man who positively hated Lord Nuffield (William Morris). Not exactly a marriage made in heaven.

Sir John Egan, who took over the running (and revitalisation) of Jaguar observed some of this nonsense.

“You talkin’ to me?”