Good point on the lobbying.

So a buddy bought one new in the early ‘70s in a Midwestern college town. He ordered it in Desert Tan, then painted the palm tree of Rommel’s Afrika Corps on the doors (Minus the Swastika) as an inside joke. He occasionally would get pulled over and the cops who thought the palm tree was a pot plant and that he was…

I own the A7. LOVE THIS CAR. Looks sharp, has character, is a comfortable Grand Tourer, and I can pull up to the loading dock at IKEA with confidence.

I’m still driving the crap out of a fine Swedish wagon - Aero SAAB.