Agreed on the Renault 4s- the remainder are SEAT 600s, perhaps not surprisingly...

... and that is precisely why I don't bother owning a car.

see?

Right brand, right period, wrong model: you need a Mercedes 300 Sc

Mazda, I know you can make Mazda 2s with Skyactiv-d, so if you make it available here, I could actually drive one...

All the more baffling considering how strikingly handsome the 5 series wagon is. Especially in the metal.

""Rice burning shit boxes"- even the ones from Europe, for some reason."

Erm, #1 is a European market, wide body Wagon R (also sold as a Vauxhall and an Opel)- too big in body and engine to be a kei. The car in the picture is a current kei Wagon R.

"aunty" Rover P4- Miss Havisham in steel

probably no-one, because lake Balaton is in Hungary.

Hmm, perhaps we should start a Darwin award for cars.

Honda Beat

"Die Herzoge von Gefahr" but it was known as "Ein Duke kommt selten allein" (A duke usually doesn't come alone)

A lot for a world of pain.

I don't believe in imaginary property

Hmm, one way to prevent a 356's engine from throwing you into the nearest snowdrift bass ackwards.

For the UK you're almost certainly correct, bearing in mind that they are like grandfather's axe. I'd wonder how much of these farmer landies survived from when they were new: most seem to have a minimum of at least one chassis transplant, usually a whole or part engine swap, and there used to be a whole cart-spring…

I love cars that wear their age, but how do you keep it in such a condition?

That license plate looks Dutch- but that's not where the picture was taken, is it?

There's a whole category of "heavy quadricycles" or Voiturettesin Europe that aren't cars either. Like that Aixam, or the imminent Renault Twizy.