Ahem....

BMW also owns RR - but that only makes matters worse.

You know Ash, that just yesternight i reiterated in myself, and not even in front of a computer, but walking on the street the "motoboating incident" joke? And still chuckled to myself.

That was de rigeur for french cars for the most part. My Peugeot 505 horns that way too.

I knew about 8, 3 and 2. In fact i have ridden in a Volvo 480 once, as a hitch-hiker, no less. But that has to come from the fact those three are EUDM models, so this really isn't bragging, just geopolitics.

Oh that's just Citroën tradition - they started the one-spoke wheel with the DS in 1955, and the last to use it was the first generation of the XM, debuting in 1989. Airbags put paid to this piece of design.

Well, it had it's faults, but there's a lot to be said for a diesel Citroën AX.

I would have put summer tires as #1 because anything else you do is exacerberated if you do them on summers.

Yeah, i'm sure something along those lines is the true answer, though my guess would be differences in fuel quality. But that still doesn't make this statement less of a bullshit, as in Europe almost all of the other manufacturers opt to use Urea to fulfill the Euro 6 norm. Mazda doesn't.

That sounds like BS to me: the Skyactive diesels on sale in other markets don't use Urea either, in fact that's one of their key features. So this shouldn't hinder production, the true reason should be something else.

What it does have is a wee little engine under the hood: A 1.4 liter four cylinder that puts out just 150 horsepower and 184 pound feet of torque. Direct injection and start stop tech make VW say that it will achieve 42 MPG on the highway, which is right in line with the Passat TDI.

Also, i would love to one-up this with the 505. I got winters on all four corners, new brakes and shocks and an LSD installed. As well as that, on-board cameras and a DSLR setup is at hand to film the deed.

I would love to, though i'm not sure it's feasible.... will tell you all about it, hopefully with video, if it comes around.

You want the jellies? I just got the 505 back from the mechanic. Who has a BX 16V, and i have a promise to drive it in the spring....

It tells a lot about Citroën, that looking at the lead picture my first thought was: that's a friggin' BX.

BC = Bord Computer, where Bord is German shorthand for On-Board, and they usually mean the Trip Computer by that.

On the subject of cartoon makers on LSD: do you remember Jamie and the Magic Torch?!

I love these. Restore this one, and get another less special to get muddy.

For the America market there would be no point to have a diesel. However, as Duurtlang pointed out repeatedly, in the European market lots of sports coupes are sold with a diesel. And not just performance diesels either, but with the frugal 2.0 versions too.

I think Ford deserves huge kudos for this new Mustang. Why? Well, they were faced with three problems: