Skidmarks everywhere!

Or the Trabant (“satellite” - as in: Sputnik...)

The real question is: why does that fake Ford Fiesta have a German number plate for the hometown of their main competitors (Wolfsburg), and not their own (‘K’ for Köln - Cologne).

Yup. Generations of cute but serious work animals.

That reminded me of the many LiteAce RVs, at which point I disappeared into the JDM RV rabbit hole. To emerge here:

An “origami” Daihatsu Cuore with sparcos and a roll cage.

You’re quite right about the Irish Green, but it isn’t quite Leaf Green either. It turns out that that exact 911 was Ferry Porsche’s own 1970 911 S, and it’s in Olive Green Metallic.

Yep. Inoffensive, but far too similar to a million other crossovers. Not sure why they did that.

And more’s the pity. But given the constant US demand for moar powah no matter what it applies too, I guess you can’t blame Mazda.

Irish green. Why Porsche don’t offer this colour right now, I’ll never understand.

I absolutely love moss green. Saab did a great one:

Yup, that’s already happening to the 1.5; the lightest, most Mazda of MX5s is thousands less already...

Hmmm. Tarmac’s too smooth.

An olive drab Donkervoort sandrail would be all sorts of awesome, but the sane answer would have been to get either a Defender or a G wagen from either of the neighbours. Which is exactly what happened later.

There were quite a few such Méhari knock-offs in Europe at the time, but this Fiat puts me very much in mind of the Daf YA66

Hmmm. Seems too far from the real thing to be a proper Super Cub, but a little too close to the real thing to count as a modern retro bike.

They’re nice, but I prefer the earlier ‘moustache’ type of Aronde.

The Citroën Dyane had sliding windows, but then, the Dyane is what you get when you take a 2CV, and have good, long look at an R4.

I was thinking the same thing, until I remembered ‘Fame’, ‘Flashdance’ and ‘Footloose’. Over-enthusiastic ‘spontaneous’ dancing in the street (to coin a phrase) was definitely a thing back then.

Throughout Germany, Karneval (Mardi Gras, basically) has always had this satiric aspect. It’s the one time in the year that the ‘world gets turned upside down’; you can do stuff that’s normally forbidden, you can’t do stuff that you’re normally supposed to, the fool becomes the prince, and the prince is made a fool.