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Next up on UK Builders’ News, new sprinkler systems in car parks, an idea whose time has come?

Perhaps. That’s also on my list, but this example was the first on my shortlist to pop up in a quick online search. Along with the Panda and AX on the list are the Citroen BX 4x4 (which are rare as hen’s teeth), and the Peugeot 205 4x4.

Willful ignorance, even where such ignorance has undisputed negative consequences, is definitely a sing of not having common sense.

I can see that. I drove a Peugeot 106 of a similar vintage at that speed, in a downpour, between Orleans and Paris in 1994. I still sometimes wonder how I lived through that.

Waiting for the corollary post. “What are you importing in 2018?”

I do too. On 7 just past the split in Lyons.

Doesn’t snow stick to the texture with the stone effect paint?

You’re right, but it’s also less unusual, more money, and has less usable space. So it fails in meeting the original brief.

Here’s the thing, nobody ever thinks about the Fiat 500L. Partly that’s because it’s badly named. Partly it’s because it’s badly marketed. Mostly it’s because it’s ugly, although it’s ugly in the same way pugs are ugly.

I don’t know where you got the idea I said the numbers were anywhere close to similar. I simply said preferences were mostly binary. Clearly the angular three box A-body was the big winner. I personally hated them but recognize my preference was a minority one.

And this really gets us to the important thing. Not all winter tires, all-season tires, or all summer tires are the same.

Visually, the A-body cars looked like American cars while the X-body cars looked vaguely European. Most people liked one or the other, but never both.

The sad thing is that later examples had decent build quality and the design gremlins had been worked out. But by then, public opinion had been set against them.

That’s as clean an unrestored Golden Eagle as you’ll ever find east of the Rockies. There’s precious little on there that needs replacing that couldn’t be harvested from either Wagoneer, a trip to the local muffler shop, or from the shelves of a nearby NAPA store.

Obviously this is the 2019 Pontiac Banshee...

I’ll say, I’ve never been on a 747-8. I’ve logged miles on 747-100, 747-200, 747-300, 747-400, and 747SP aircraft from Air France, Qantas, Iberia, Korean, TWA, United, Virgin, BA, SAS, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, and South African, but never the new one.

To be fair, the windows ar rows 1 & 2 are pretty close to coward facing, thanks to the curvature of the airframe.  

Funny. The best Camry was also a Celica.

We all know that totally happens in real life.