The coppers in Sydney are now tooling around in Hyundai Elantras. At least the Highway Patrol guys get a 5-Series BMW.

Well, in that case you could have also bought a SEAT from Franco Era Spain.

Actually, the “Post Golf” didn’t have these lights, though in German MkI circles, these tail lights were known as “Postleuchten”. As per the below from a German MkI Forum, these tail lights come from the “Nullausstattung” Golf.

The first production car with fuel injection was not the Mercedes Benz 300SL, as widely claimed. It was, in fact, the Gutbrod Superior 700E in 1951.

There still is! But it’s Australian, not German.

I think there was more to that, as another German company at the time sold a small motorbike called the Kreidler Mustang. Kreidler became insolvent in 1982.

Thanks for posting these. Love it!

Dude - Versailles is a castle. In France.

I’m 6'5" tall, and I mostly found the old style cars too low. Recently drove a friend’s Honda Fit (or Jazz), and fit in without an issue.

Last night I saw a Kia in the car park and at first thought it was a 2 Series BMW. If you’d swapped the badges, I would have never noticed.

“Confidence is everything.”

Wonderful ad! I actually have driven a R18 in Europe many moons ago - the seats were unbelievably spongy.

I have owned a late 1990s Ford Fairmont Ghia with exactly that option.

I’ve seen a Cullinan in traffic here in Sydney.

Close. It’s not an Isetta but a Zündapp Janus.

The mystery car is an Opel Rekord B Coupe.

This is a Type 99 Light Machine Gun:

1960s Porsches were anything but “practically free” in 1990s.

Agreed. But I still think the original A-Class was fairly #mehtoo

This looks like something Bristol may have built in an alternative timeline.