Daar’s niks wat die vurige opwinding en topwaarde van die 1600 Sport klop nie.

That’s a good set-up, and it shows that it could be a good idea for a lateral thinking garage guy to pick up and initiate.

That’s very close, but I think the combination of storage and wrenching is crucial. It may be a specifically European concern, though, because there is comparatively little garage space here.

What I’d like right now are old car wrenching & storing clubs in buildings.

That’s exactly it: no car will be as fast, as cheap or as convenient as walking, cycling or mass transit in my city. There's barely any parking where I am, and none where I’m going, and treacle slow car traffic inbetween. I need a car for beyond the city.

And that gets to the heart of the i3 paradox for me: as a city dwelling car person with an awareness of climate change and an interest in new tech and unusual design, it should be perfect. But in reality, it’s perfectly unsuitable for how I’d use a car: for road trips while having no fixed parking spot with a charger.

The Ecosport is basically a Fiesta -not a Focus- on stilts; it’s built on the same platform. 

I was the same for me, but, to be honest, these things have rather grown on me.

I still much prefer the previous generation Nissan Otti / Mitsubishi eK Wagon

I thought that the Chevy Spin might be a rebadged Wuling minivan - one of those cars you’ve never heard of that sells in ungodly quantities somewhere else.

That is pure, weapons-grade essence of ‘90s.

Well, gen Xers are in the money now.

Texier is still alive at 105 years old

That has to be the first envelope body design.

Wait, so Mazdas don’t get underseal as standard?

And rethink a transport infrastructure that's basically 'car or nothing'.

Yes, but Jason, look:

I can’t really think of many FWD cars with true dead or beam axles in the back. Most have some form of twist beam or torsion beam rear axles that allow the wheels to move independently of each other to a fair degree.

An actual live rear axle. On cart springs. In the 21st century.

Why would it be ‘close’? “Horch!” is a conjugated form of the imperative of “Horchen”. Like older English “Hark!” or modern "listen!".