Ah but that would be a liftback or fastback surely not a hatchback ;)

But then you’d sell me a 2 door and I’d be disappointed as I was expecting a coupe/sportscar and would get a hatchback. We’d all lose.
Still, it’s ok, it makes sense enough to us all here. I guess we’ll just hoard our “3 door” fun hatches (2 of my previous manual “3 door” fun things):

Hi pedant, Euro pedant here, we call them 5 doors whether they are doors or not.

Makes for handy differentiation between 4 door (saloon/sedan), 5 door (wagon or possibly a hatch rather than an awkward opening trunk space), 2 door (likely a coupe/sports car) and 3 door (a possibly fun hatchback or even a shooting brake…

Even does lil’ UK cities like mine.
We’re so inland that it almost looks like a strange fungus in a petri dish (I think a lot of the UK think that about Leicester anyway).

You’re more than welcome, and I was trying to find this picture of when my friend Jonny and I were at the Coys auction in 2016 for the Autosport international show. Because it’s totally relevant, because GT40 racecar.

We managed to make it look like we were rich enough to afford everything, so, we tried out cars for…

Very happy to see you get this, well deserved. For as long as I’ve been on here (07? 06?) I’ve been a very happy chap to see your posts wherever they were. Whenever news of GT40s come up I tend to think “I wonder what $kaycog thinks of that” even though that’s bloody weird for someone I’ve never met.
Enjoy it, you…

I’m pretty sure Saab fans would love that too.

Aye, we are buggers for using our language to suit our mad colonial whimsies at times.

That’s because I did it on purpose to check you were paying attention ;)

Yes, I realise that, but that is exactly my point, it is a greatest hits. They’re all amazing things and references and cars etc, but bringing them all together, makes a great car slightly less so in my eyes. I do not blame you for liking it though at all. Just saying that for me it rings a bit hollow.

While I see your point, I am pretentious.

Ok, so whilst I appreciate it’s a Gordon Murray greatest hits album of a car, it feels a bit hollow somehow. Maybe because it is just that, a collection of cool thing rather than an original “let’s see what we can do here with current technology” as the F1 was, or working outside the box like the BT46b was.

Including…

After selling my ‘98 GTV lusso, I can only imagine it’s because they’re stupidly cheap here in the UK at the moment. Bought mine for under £1000, spent a further £1000 getting it up to scratch for daily driving over 8 months, sold it for £1300 as a great car.
If you’re not after a V6, the UK is absolutely full of very…

No one else mentioning they’re changing these lights to yellow “because endurance racing”, even though BMW no longer want to go endurance racing with the M8. So, yaknow, referencing racing they no longer do. Genius.

I am incredibly lucky to have an awesome friend who works as a mechanic. Before I knew him personally he’d done an engine change (block out block in) for me, where the rest of the car died long before the engine he fitted. This was after ringing around various places (over 10 years ago) to find someone that would take…

That feeling of nursing a worryingly broken bike home on a longer than usual distance ride, then having someone nearly take you out when you’re nearly home. Yeah, that’s happened way too many times with me and bikes, I very much empathise. Obviously I’m better at keeping on top of maintenance issues now (I was a…

“I hate bleeding brakes. Tiny bleeder valves opened and closed, lying on your back while brake fluid always finds some way out of the little tube you’ve set and onto your tools, your arms, your car, your pants. It’s not difficult, it’s just time-intensive. The thing you get to at nine at night, when you can’t…

Ah, I remember having to fit the push button start in a ‘15 C Class as the dealer didn’t do it. I was not at all impressed.

Possibly for sale with a proviso of “Not for road use” or something similar? Just a guess. Though the other ones may have been crushed as they were pre-production prototypes and weren’t fully certified, this one may just be a regular production model.

Funnily enough I’ve had 2 of the cars on this list, for less money (I think) but here in the UK.