I watched Day of the Jackal the other day and the Bastille Day celebrations in that were simultaneously impressive and struck me as a bit surprising given it was France. Made me realize how little I knew about the French, since I didn’t realize that they just occasionally go all in on the military.

Sophisticated in the overall execution.

I’m pretty sure sophisticated isn’t really a core Defender trait.

You definitely do... As long as you’re dry, who cares about the hired help. ...Amiright?

Somebody is clever as shit....

You want it French, but not too French. The English aristocracy is still mostly Norman French, apart from some Johnny come lately Germans, so you want some old school French, but not enough so that people start thinking you actually are modern French.

“0-60 times in the mid teens.”

> the Hummer is absolutely at its worst when it comes to putting in an order at the Burger King drive-through.

There once was an idiot from Limerick,

You say that like it’s a bad thing...

I always felt Bond was a type II-A kind of guy.

Nice!!!!!

If it’s not a standard item, you can get the measurements and have a custom windshield made. It’s not cheap, but it’s not as outrageous as one would think. I priced one out some years ago and it was in the mid 4-figures for a reusable mold and production quality glass. It’s probably more now, but I’d doubt it hits…

Ford and other brands would never allow it, but it would be cool to be able to choose from different screen cluster themes. An all digital cluster where you could select something like above that looks steampunk 

Oh, man... Every car needs that Saab Night Panel option!

I have a thought...

Why is “aggressive” design a desirable trait? How come we don’t praise cars for being “mellow”?

If you can’t fix an Alfa you shouldn’t drive one

The opposite side of having HOAs is having David Tracy as your neighbor.

Just a quick primer on the Saturn series, since I’m sure it will come up: