Thank you. That's exactly what I was getting at. This is a symptom of something important in Poland, not just a "ha, ha, silly religious nuts" sort of thing.

I clicked this article hoping for a discussion of culture-bound syndromes, or comparisons of this phenomenon to similar outbreaks in the recent past, or something. Sure, this magazine seems like kind of a goof to an outside observer, but it's clearly rooted in something which is important to its context.

I was waiting for it to cut out partway through to let the exhaust note sing a bit. I don't mind music, but it should be used judiciously.

Pursuant to that, and I realize this is hard in a show-type situation with lots of people about, watch your framing re: things sticking up in the background. Also, just, uh...don't upload photos that aren't in focus.

I don't know, how fast is a unicycle with a lawnmower engine?

As a photographer, I have trained my eyes to be pretty sensitive to colour casts and colour information that isn't actually part of the scene I'm viewing. This illusion works, but I can switch it off if I focus on it. Super neat though. I love weird perceptual stuff like this.

The stuffed animal thing amuses me, although it kind of screams "garage queen" if the animal in question is in any shape but filthy. The antlers, though...I don't get it. It's hell of popular up here around Christmas. Also the hanging of bows from the grille, which, given the way our roads get in the winter, always…

They should just bring back the Espada, dammit.

The second gen is even more beautiful. Half-lidded pop-up headlights give it a deceptively sleepy look, and it has this strange and lovely power hump/intake on the hood which is basically just a rectangular bit of sheet metal lifted three quarters of an inch above the fender line. And their sound is shattering.

Good lord, the lime green just highlights the schmaltziness of that interior.

It's a bit steep, but it's also unique, allegedly complete, and tremendously pretty. I can picture it with a 3.6L Jag engine and BRG and it's a pretty picture indeed.

I showed my girlfriend, who does not know things about cars, carinteriors.tumblr.com. The Lagonda was the only one she twigged to by name, aside from the Alfa Spider (and only that because I never shut up about how beautiful Alfas are).

If I recall correctly, the gullwings on the DMC-12 extend slightly further away from the body of the car at the peak of their arc than when they're closed. Presumably this design obeys the same general principle. Not that it matters, since it'll never make it to market.

I see what you did there seeing what he did there.

I was kind of put out by their absence too, but the Neu Klasse is the direct ancestor, philosophically and aesthetically, and all proceeds from it. Seems a fair compromise.

NP, no question. Hoon it until something important breaks then lift the drivetrain and scrap the body. Good times all around.

The '91 Aristo I currently own makes a fine, relatively cheap project; do the basic 2JZ power upgrade and then work on making that shit as VIP as possible. Yeah, I'm cool.

The Milano is my favourite. It's weird-looking, sure, but I love its strange lines. I promise I'm not joking.

I live by the mantra that there are no ugly Alfas. NP.

I've read the whole goddamned thing twice, and managed to enjoy it both times. It is, admittedly, dauntingly huge, but that's part of its brilliance; the length lets it fully engage with all the bizarre little details and tangents Stephenson always chases anyway. His depiction of Hooke is actually the only place I've…