@HansStuckJr: sure was, for a time DeTomaso owned Maserati, I could be wrong but I think it started life as the Longchamp and then they made a Maserati version (with a Maserati rather than a Ford V8)

Make Saturn bring over the version with the panoramic windscreen, it rocks!

When the woman who is now my sister-in-law was my brother's teenage sweetheart she actually owned one of those series MM Minors (with the headlights in the grill rather than on the wings). It was awful car, there was quite a steep hill between our house and hers and if she was giving me and any friends a lift we…

@3wheeler: Morris and Austen are dead already but I agree with you about MG, it was dead until the Chinese resurrected it. Let sleeping dogs etc

Well top gear gets it wrong again. Alas it's always going to be a car you buy for the way it drives rather than the way it looks

Presumably this will replace the Europe only, Saab 9-3 based, BLS. The next question is, could the alpha platform go under a Holden Torana for the 21st century? Maybe it could even be derived from Pontiac's alpha variant?

@camp6ell: can we just clarify, the question is "Is Volkswagen the only major auto producer to never have developed and sold a conventional front-engine/rear drive (Systeme Panhard) car?" and the Transporter, even the passenger version, is very much a product of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles subsidiary which is to…

How to spoil a really quite decent car! Do they still make Celicas? They don't sell them in Europe any more

@pauln: OK I give up, but what about Saab, you've gotta give me Saab

@earlofhalflight: in the 30s the Audi nameplate was only ever used on Auto Union's racing cars

@pauln: Audi didn't exist as a nameplate in the 30s, they were called Auto Union then, and Citroens prior to the Traction Avant were front engined/rear drive

Also Audi, during the "Auto Union" era sure but since the time the Audi name was first used they've always been front or four wheel drive, but then they are owned by VW so maybe that doesn't count

Saabs were always front wheel drive until the 9-7 X (4x4) and the 9-3 Turbo X with "all wheel drive" but no front engined/rear drive

@Vega: I'm with you, ignoring the 4x4 9-7X and the fairly recent development of 4 wheel drive 9-3 all previous Saabs have been front wheel drive. I'm now going to go away and have a good think about any others

come on people, think 400i Venice, that would be a true project from Hell

The coupe nose integrates well with the saloon body, just shame they couldn't have done something about the rear

I know everybody want's the Lamborghini but I've gone for the Ferrari because I figure I could get all Sultan of Brunei on it's arse and turn it into a shooting brake (the Devil made me do it)

so we've got M3 coupes, coupe/cabriolets, a saloon, now can we have the M3 Estate? Pretty please?

The RS4 is nice but it's only a V8 engine, some body kit and trick suspension parts aways from the A4 estate that's driven by, well people with taste sure, but plenty of them. The Ferrari's near relatives are, well other Ferraris

OK I take back what I said earlier about answering questions nobody asked, where I live in central London I actually need one of these things. Might have to kill to "robotic agent" though