Let’s put it this way: owning a palazzo in Venice and trying to sympathetically fix it so that it doesn’t crumble into the lagoon is fine; building an exact replica of one (even if you are using old-style construction methods and materials)... well.

Unfortunately a Singer is not really a 911 anymore. Worry not, I am not as obtuse as to say that a Singer is worse than a Porsche 911; it’s just a completely different animal.

I’ve heard something lately about AM offering DB5s with Bond-style modifications, but I suspect those are not new cars, but old, comprehensively restored cars.

That’s not sagging.

The BX replaced the GS (an originally rotary-powered oddity in its own right),

You make an interesting point about some film remakes not even following the original very closely. But I don’t think that a replica product with fuel injection (quite probably full engine management, even) air conditioning, modern six-speed gearboxes (or automatics) can be simply considered an “old product being…

Further proof that the car world as we used to know it is in steep decline. This is the automotive equivalent of the film industry’s current obsession with remakes. It’s as if a whole sector is running out of ideas.

Picture of inside of 912E + Bagel = bliss.

Aussie Moke – maybe a Californian?

For every French soldier who was not “brave enough” – at least according to the usual armchair-general standards of the Internet – there were hundreds of civilians who did risk their lives to help Allied air crews who had been shot down over occupied France.

Somehow related... prisoners/slave workforce used to pee on the gyros which were to be fitted to V1s and V2s, with predictable results. I think that happened in the Dora-Mittelwerk complex, but cannot remember for sure.

That is good, but not good enough.

I agree, the 924S was a truly excellent, efficient car and, at the time, probably the best choice of the range (apart from being rather less showy).

Even if by rallying you mean Safari/Ivory Coast-type events, the reality was not quite that simple.

The 924 died in 1982 to make way for the 944,

Interesting situation.

Thanks. You are absolutely right: in Spanish, the sign used for graphic accents, the cedilla (the little tail under the c in certain languages, as in façade in French), the sign over the ñ, etc are all tildes, whereas in English tilde just designates the sign ~.

Dang, I forgot the Italians!

Fully agree. That ventral air intake for the radiator (and the extremely organic meshing of curves) makes it one of the most shark-like cars I can think of.

Sure, me too! It’s just that calling it an “RSR” feels inappropriate to me.