You sir are living the dream.

On a somewhat related tangent, South Africa also was the only country to receive the Land Rover Defender equipped with the BMW M52 engine.

South African BMWs are always the best. The 745i SA being another case in point. Everyone else got the SOHC 3.5 with a turbo. Someone at BMW SA said ‘fuck it’ and decided to sell them with the DOHC M88 instead, thereby creating a de-facto M7.

One of these dismal little fuckers.

Manual r129 owner here. Don’t pay a premium for three pedals, that transmission is not the best.

I paid considerably less for my copies, but honestly it’s worth it, even for nearly $300. It’s just that good.

I found a copy at a local car show here in Italy, complete with poster for sixty euros!

Why are we surprised that these cars are heading for the stratosphere? They basically defined a generation and are built to such exacting standards that they make all contemporary (and quite a few younger) supercars look like horse-drawn carriages. Look at what 250GTOs change hands for. This car will be one of the few…

The best car ever made.

Yup.

Because they’re unrelentingly shit.

Early Porsche 996.

Oh for fuck’s sake. Make the bullshit stop.

Nope. Still hideous.

You can turn Beta Montecarlos (I believe you strange foreigners called them Scorpions) into very very high-quality 037 replicas. Steal the engine out of a long-dead Beta Volumex and you’re 90% there...

Every Beetle ever made. They’re so shit that alien races will be curious to see which planet can create something so awful amd have people worship it.

Deathbox? Nah, just a Beetle-based car. They’re all shit.

Was it really unsafe or just a Karmann Ghia doing Karmann Ghia things?

It improved drastically after the removal of the useless ginger talent-vacuum which was Evans. All they needed to do was bin Jordan and Schmitz, give Reid some horse tranquilizers and it was golden. It was already much better than the first season of that Amazon drivel (haven’t watched season 2, don’t plan on).

The absolute tragedy of all of this is Eddie Jordan escaping unharmed. Useless fuckpuppet.