To be fair, the placement of the unibrow means it’ll always reflect the road surface...

I’m honestly glad you like the Sonata, but I have to say that it leaves me quite cold.

Proportions are off, especially at the rear.

Great granddad is way ahead of you there:

Are these things still based on the Hilux, or does it just look that way?

That Cartman King reminds me of Italian futurism:

Your mention of the Figaro juggled something in position in my jumbled mind: the Nissan Mint is simply the latest in a whole genre of small, friendly, stylish urban runabouts. See also the Honda CRX, and a whole slew of Bianchinas and Vespa 400s, probably going all the way back to the equally minty Nash Metropolitan.

The design is the first to take a modern FWD drivetrain and package it behind the seats. Yes, Ford did try something similar more than a decade earlier with the Mustang I concept but that was with a longitudinal drivetrain out of a Taunus.

One very cringy Torchlopnik post coming up.

🎶 Rudolf the headless Reindeer🎶

Except that Citroen is modern Dutch, and Baguette came from Italian Bacchetta. Bordeaux is proper French though: likely Aquitanian (similarish to Basque) in origin via Latin. 

I know what you mean about the mid century ad stylists, and what they did to sleekify fairly frumpy sedans. Especially in Europe.

Or an Alpine A110, to keep it mid-engined (and powerful)

Just a little further back, in the '40s and earlier, the staff up front could perch on leather, but The Boss in the back would recline on the finest broadcloth.

If that happens, chances are that the UK won't get any Fiestas either...

Vote in a President who is more interested in a free-trade deal than a trade war with the EU?

One of the things I like about Mazda is that here in Yurp, you can still get a brand new MX5 like this:

I also had a vague notion that the Honda Z was RR- but no, it’s FF. I guess FF is deep in Honda’s DNA.

Time for a packaging face-off with the similar Suzuki Fronte, methinks:

Mercedes’ colour game is on point.