The Diplomat and its siblings - the Admiral and Kapitan (imagine calling a model by those names today!) - are just on the right side of affordable at the moment, but they’re getting rarer.

Vintage or Veteran cars are a punch below the belt sir. British ones are almost always a symphony in hand-crafted brass, steel, wood, leather and glass.

Yup, I’ll take those and I think most people would too - very fair retort with good choices. The droopsnoot Firenza belies its modest starting point too.

Supercar money now...£250,000+ or about $15 if things carry on going the way they are....

Vauxhall is the craftsman’s tool of choice for the young, modified crowd. There will be no shortage...

Opel used to produce V8 cars like this:

The stereotype is easy, low-hanging fruit. Neither of these will go away.

I’d agree with that. If you pull out your firearm for something other than self defence (I include the sometimes controversial ‘stand your ground’ laws) as a private citizen you’re essentially turning yourself into a police officer with none of the legal protections and a huge amount of potential liabilities.

It’s a shame more people haven’t made it to this spot in the comments to read yours.

It’s not that the Vauxhall range is truly, utterly dreadful these days (the little Corsa is always near the top of the list of best-sellers at the end of a year) but for every model in their lineup, the equivalent Ford is better to drive, better built and often cheaper.

Hard to tell because there’s no way to really get any scale from the photograph. However, there were a slew of cheap, unconvincing Countach replicas based on VW floorpans in the UK during the ‘80s and ‘90s.

I have to wince a little about the suggestion to deploy single-engined aircraft into the desert but, other than that, can’t disagree. I’d swap your A-29 for something with more survivability, but I’m not sure what the US can practically bring to bear at the moment.

If it’s made it over 100k it’s probably a good ‘un and been looked after a bit. It’s the older, low mileage ones that are a bit of a gamble.

It’s the particular glue they use to hold various bits in place behind the scenes (dash, door cards etc.). As it gets older it smells like crayons.

Whilst that messed with my neck, and the glossy brochure was a little short on practical details such as redundancy in terms of systems, I’d fight in that. If someone pointed me to a ramp with a Tucano or the Super Bronco, I’d pick the latter.

I think someone else came up with the answer which is an airframe I wasn’t aware of - my military knowledge is somewhat out of date - but apparently you folks already build it:

Indeed it has. Counter-insurgency has been one of its primary roles but they’ve not yet been deployed to anywhere where they would be facing the opposition that they will in the desert.

Tampa is an awesome city. I’m not a city person - I like outdoor spaces - but it’s a superb place to visit. It seems kind of forgotten in the scheme of things but the design, the spaces, the nightlife - there’s something for everyone there.

It it were a 50/50 thing I wouldn’t have posted this. If I had a good experience 50% of the time it wouldn’t warrant it. It’s 99% of the time.

303 sqn. Look them up - legendary. It’s not forgotten here.