Oh, look what I found

I’m not sure whether it’s OK to body shame a car, but, my, did that thing let itself go in middle age.

Maybe you would pay $9 million for a budget front-wheel-drive car that starts at less than $20,000.

Or you could, you know, just plonk a Brompton in the boot of your MX-5

This this THIS.

(which I had enjoyed cleaning as well, happily working with a new battery)

I hope that some Art & Science designer in a GM office down the road is having a wry chuckle at that.

Aero, bro. Downforce FTW.

I think the recommendation of automatics is as much to do with the nature of Mercedes cars as it is to do with the quality of their manual gearboxes.

And while we wish it had three pedals, come on.

Still waiting, Citroën.

And the Germans. Their stakeholders - private banks, local government, pension funds - think in decades, not quarters.

I have wanted an iRoad badly for a while, but the Gorogo is new on me. That is a genius combination.

Or we could just shrug, and buy some more Volkswagens, Peugeots and Renaults.

Doing these kind of delightfully nonsensical flights of fancy are pretty much the only thing DS is good for. The real Citroëns are still Citroëns.

That doesn’t mean they couldn’t shift production and import Fiestas and Focuses back into the country if need be.

True dat.

That made me wonder what these tiny bundles of joy go for

Yup. And that’s before we even get to the interiors.

It’s hard for us yanks to even think of this Fiesta as a real van—after all, it’s just a hatchback with the rear windows blocked off.