I guess he is now, but wasn’t he liquid cooled during his lifetime? 🤔

Hold on, she’ll be on boost any minute now

In between the Lohner-Porsche and the Kurogane, there’s also the 1903 Spyker 60 HP - the first car to have four wheel drive from a single engine.

Even better as Emma Peel, hooning her little Lotus Elan in The Avengers.

It’s a nightmare for the car companies. They have to engineer a car to reduce injury for people who are strapped in (i.e. nearly everyone) and for the small number of idiots in the US who are not.

How do you mean “they don’t last”? The 1007 is indeed dead & gone, but the Porte / Spade is a perennial favourite on the Japanese school run.

Side note: Tatras also had shovel noses between 1923 and 1949, although the T57s had a painted-on fake radiator from 1936.

This.

Well, one part still is. And it's causing a little bit of an issue with Brexit.

Indeed, because such a solution would almost certainly have required a water pump, and that would have blown the target price.

I once rented an ND automatic for a few days. Very nice car, but I longed for a manual every second I was in it.

I'd have thought that it's his job to know that 🤨

That’s already the case. Fancy stuff like Pierce Arrows and Duesenbergs will trundle along nicely pricewise, because they are that rare, but anything ordinary from that era is already pretty cheap:

This works.

Right now, in my 30+ year old hooptie, that fake cassette thing is the only means of playing my own tunes.

Yeah, but isn’t that a problem?

Ouch.

The 9-5 was built on the GM2900 platform, which is a fancy way of saying that it is a very German Opel Vectra in a Swedish party frock. It almost certainly has Opel’s Ecotec Diesel as well 😉

Needs more Wasserkühlung.

Hoo-boy. Now we're talking late '60s 2CV4 levels of performance. Hold on to your hats!