somehow the world "coupe" and "passat" don't go together. At least the Merc CLS looks mean, this just looks ordinary

it's very cool but where are all the other cars? And what about the road-kill? Is there a snuff version where it runs over some poor unsuspecting hedgehog?

shame they were like trucks to drive

Also@Mrb00st: While we are all "celebrating" 40 years of Rotary Power let's not forget one of the most obscurely wonderful rotary powered cars of all time, the Citroen GS Birotor. The car was such a disaster that Citroen attempted to buy back every one that it had sold (less than 1,000 cars) because they figured that…

It's another case of "can I have both?". Growing up on a farm in New Zealand my Dad had the piston-engined version of the truck, the Mazda B1600 pick-up. So I'm thinking find a decent one of them as a donor vehicle. Still the "glamour" of the RX4 wagon has an undeniable appeal. I'd call the truck heads, the wagon…

It looks to me like this baby has a set of rear "suicide" door (ala RX8) so it's a 4 door convertible. Go Citroen!

How about an original ('60s) Maserati Quattroporte?

and she died in August 1997 (ie almost exactly 10 years ago) which means that if she was in the mid-west (poor thing) in 1996 that would have been a year before she died. Not that I'm a pedant about royal history

I want it but I'm crying inside

It looks like what "cars of the future" looked like in the 70s, cool…

It's gotta be the Lincoln, that thing actually looks possessed, plus some poltergeist has made the rear doors open from the wrong end

did you see the pics from over here of the smashed bugatti veyron that the owner's brother lost control earlier in the year? (www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007100574,00.html) I guess being rich enough to own a supercar doesn't automatically make you a super-driver

jeppers this is another one of those "can I have both?" types because they'd actually compliment each other really well. As I'm in Europe I'd probably want to re-power the Checker with a suitably powerful big diesel but if I've got to choose then I guess it would have to be the porker

Has Daimler's niche-mining finally run out of steam? If there is one market where the R-class should have worked it's the US, it's simply too big for Europe

So the new E-Class estate looks just like the new C-Class estate only bigger, oh well plus ca çhange

@LuciferV8: and in essnce that's my problem with Top Gear, it gives car nuts a bad name, and anyway Clarksons judgements can be way off (he actually liked the the VW Pheaton for example). Alas like most motoring journalists those who work for TG in the thrall of the auto manufacturers PR machine

The litter of 600s in tempting put the pimping and WTF factor for the RX5/Cosmo is surely greater. All power to the Mazda

Testing it is one thing, but what could be really interesting is, supposing they productionise it, where they will build it…

@LuciferV8: You seem to be repeating yourself and totally misunderstanding my objection to Top Gear. I'm far from anti-car, more or less everyone in my family has SUVs apart from me, I don't have one is because I live in central London where they don't actually fit (and let's face it they aren't much fine to drive…

Well like at said at the start, you're welcome to it, actually given that Clarkson is a classic climate change denier he'll fit right in with you guys. Top Gear has twice been in trouble in the recent past for environmental damage, in Scotland where they destroyed some pristine heather testing an Land Rover, which…