VW still make the very similar type 2 - the 'bay window' van that followed this splitty - and you can get those new: [www.danburymotorcaravans.com]

If the comms networks stay up, I'd be much less likely to be injured in a riot.

X5s are terrible, full stop.

Le Citroën SM, bien sûr

Méharis and their ilk were frequently used for these kinds of 'raids'- living proof of what you can do with simple and light.

Do want. Quite badly. Right now.

I don't think I've ever wanted a ridiculously awesome wallpaper as much as a high-res, scanned-from-the-original-negative version of that "A rest stop at 14,600 feet above sea level" picture

I've seen quite a few Priuses in Japan. None of their drivers where white, IIRC.

That's simple: Citroën 2CV- absolutely guaranteed that there's nothing slower, and nothing more fun. The one and only car that made me laugh like a loon simply by the way it lolloped over any undulation, air cooled twin blaring, roof flapping, peering through the letterbox windscreen at landscapes under most acute…

Well, you can stop complaining: the Netherlands has a 45.2% car tax (next to the usual 19% sales tax). All other things being equal, a €20.000,- car will cost you € 32.840.

Every now and again, awful veers into awesome. This one teeters on the edge.

Remember that AOTD about the top ten zombie apocalypse vehicles?

The James list ads state Brunei as the location, and the previous Jalopnik article about the collection also states Brunei as the location: [jalopnik.com] Is there some other info somewhere?

Let's list them, shall we:

This was a real challenge- one of the more interesting QOTDs I've seen yet.

+1 #COTD

As per usual, the Great Insufferable is wrong. I wouldn't know about Detroit, because I've never been, but in the UK the pleasantness of a place is directly proportional to its pedestrianisation.

+1

La Déesse ('the Goddess'), naturellement

Dutch peculiarity: most bikes there only have coaster brakes on the rear wheel. It does make handsignals a lot easier...