Van den Plas (three words) was a Belgian coachbuilder that closed down in the thirties.
Vanden Plas (two words) was a separate British company building Van den Plas designs under licence and continued its operation after the Belgian company stopped trading.
It built bodies for all sorts of British carmakers (Bentley,…

The grey one is a Lotus Elan Type 26R.

Yes, Toyota sold a four-door hardtop version of the Corolla with frameless door glass.

It’s a Morgan-inspired custom with a Honda Goldwing engine, currently for sale:

Will Mazda actually come back? Who knows, but I do have my fingers crossed for NSU.

The RHD Camaro is sold by HSV.

Probably my dad’s TE2800 (based on a Manta A but with a Commodore I6 engine and further modified for rallying, 79 made in total):

Cheesy voice acting you say ?

They wouldn’t have faced these issues if they were still known as STi.

Probably, speed limit where the car was located is 110kph anyway and it got there quite well.
The engine is pretty trouble-free though, it’s based on an industrial and marine design, my grandfather and I never had to do anything apart from normal maintenance during those 20 years.

Almost, mine was built in Spain.

My grandfather bought a Polo Classic 1.9 SDI (rebadged Seat Córdoba) in 1998.
I drove it from 2011 to 2017 and sold it a bit over a year ago since I live in another country and it wasn’t economically viable to keep it whith the then-upcoming stricter fitness inspection.

CP, it’s not a manual.

Just get a car with one-touch open everything:

Just cover everything in MB-Tex.

Guy from Mauritius here, the Hardbody Popemobile won’t be “put on permanent display”, the Diocese stated that it would be turned back to a regular pickup and used as such (a regular Hardbody costs roughly $25,000 here by the way).

Just a small precision, the car was used by King Carl XVI Gustaf who became King of Sweden following the death his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf (so there should still be quite some time before King Gustaf XVI ascends the throne).

Let’s not forget the 2007 European Grand Prix, led by Spyker’s Markus Winkelhock in what would be is only F1 race ever.

Honda has the S660 though:

I tried to convince my grandparents to buy a F1 in the early 2000s (at one point Auto Salon Singen in Germany had two or three for 800,000/900,000 Euro if I remember correctly), “unfortunately” they bought a few appartments in Paris with the money instead.
The appartments are worth a (very) nice amount of money now but…