Heh. I vividly remember the ads in the back of UK car magazines for kits that did the reverse: Opel badges on your common or garden Vauxhall. This was roundabout the mid ‘80s to late ‘90s, when Vauxhall’s reputation was about as bad as Opel’s was on the continent, for exactly the same reasons.

Close.

I mean come on, it’s perfect.

Tractions have always been very popular classics, so the parts situation is pretty good.

But there’s the thing: architecturally, that Bel Air was another instance of a pattern perfected by Cadillac in the 1910s. The kicker is that most popular US  vehicles still follow that pattern- they just come without OEM trunklids.

Hmm, I can only see bowler hats in the original, and an assortment of fedoras, a beret and a lady’s hat in the new one as well.

Or we just bring these back:

Yooo, Tomos!

And then you find that the rampaging 11 hp of the 100cc machine bent the frame 😊

They’re kind of intriguing as an idea, and would have worked as a Citroën with better suspension. It's just the branding that really doesn't work for me.

I’m surprised, but glad they didn’t tap PSA to have the proper Citroën DS transform into a DS 5 on being passed by that Lambo.

Yup. It replaces the Škoda Rapid Spaceback, which was another wagonny hatch:

That is exactly what it is- except you can switch this one off.

Pfff. Cheap painted tin. Must be a Ford Model T.

After making millions on the Isetta deal, Iso started making sports cars and GTs with Italian bodies and Corvette engines.

In a way, you have to admire how they managed to go from manly, to manlier, to manliest to MENTAL, to EFFING LIVID and, finally, RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

I guess it also goes to show how crucial design is for modern cars. They’re almost ambulant popular sculpture above anything else.

I guess history repeats itself.

As I’m in Europe, I can’t read the LA times article, but the Panamera hybrid take rate in Europe may have at least as much to do with economics as torque. For example, in the Netherlands, a Panamera 4 e-hybrid costs just €100.- more than a regular Panamera 4, but the hybrid has a 132 hp more than the regular one.

I can think of two companies that would fit that description quite well at the moment: Subaru and Mazda.