Meanwhile, in France

Just arrest me, officer, I’ll think of a suitable offence while you take me the long, but fast way to the station.

Mine’s not a race car, but shutting it permanently is tempting. Because if it isn’t the mechanism chewing gears, it’s the drain pipes piddling in your interior. That hasn’t happened to me yet, but the worry and the checking isn't worth the kinda-sorda targa experience.

Definitely + 1 on the 2CV.

You know what’s not going to malfunction on any of my paid-for hardtops? The roof. I’m just saying.

Yes, vandalism does make me cry too.

Hmm, I think I prefer the “skinny tyre + appropriate power + full control x reminder of your mortality” solution.

Not really- the 2019 equivalent of that Bel Air is a crew cab Silverado.

I wouldn’t worry about marketing. I can see at least three of these from my front door right now.

It is nice, but I like the even older Centuries even better.

Porsche needs to bring back the Olive Green of Ferry Porsche’s own 1969 911 S ASAP.

By the looks of it, it’s just a nose job on the old one, so the more palatable old nose might still fit.

Those Rudge-Whitworth knock-offs look nice on a ‘20s Aston Martin

Rest of the world gets a 1.5 litre inline 4 of about 100 hp. i.e. enough to get the job done.

When Henry Ford talked of the Model T as the ‘universal car’, he wasn’t kidding. Those things were used for anything and everything:

I like the idea of a 718 T, but I keep wondering whether PASM, torque vectoring and a slippy diff are worth it. Not just in price, but also weight and complexity.

Now I feel bad for a 2003 Kia Rio.

And that passive-aggressive YouTube title is rightfully so, since we as a human population can’t even get words right.

More than that, if you have to rely on the sound judgment of a felon on the run for a situation to remain safe, you're Doing It Wrong.

‘bless you' in Afrikaans (rather than German)