In a moment of weakness I actually bought a P38a. A late model 4.6.

That patent expired in the 1970s, making the invention public domain, so it’s not the issue.

True, but it’s not the DOT, it’s the local council. They’re typically not really on the ball, so it can take some arguing to get money out of them. I do know several people that have been reimbursed for damaged alloys or suspension though.

Inertia reel seatbelts. I drove a 50s car with fixed ones earlier this year, and it's amazing how often you want to reach for things when you can't!

I really want access to self driving cars for easy travel, but I also really want a car or two for fun. Just because the industry is moving towards the top right of that matrix doesn't mean that people are, or that all cars will go that way.

As a one person enclosed motorcycle-ish thing it makes some sense, but as a two person thing it takes up too much road for the luggage space it offers, an MX5 would be more practical.

It's Dame Helen, or Dame Helen Mirren, never Dame Mirren!

The BBC don't have exclusive use of that track. It's used for track days, and car tests. Mclaren use it, and I think other companies too.

Money. Aston and RR only make a couple of thousand cars a year, so they can't pay for the development of more than one platform. One of the RRs is a BMW underneath I think, but the I house ones are very similar.

Also Italians... It's a delicacy in the north.

You can also get the same symptoms with a buildup of wax ordirt on one of the sensors. Confuses the system.

Had a 911 (about 4 years) and an Aston (3 years and counting) back to back.

Over here in the UK, wagons are still pretty common, and women seem to love them. They speak of practicality, but without the show offness of big SUVs, and there's room for a dog.

From a Brit point of view, you're missing some subtleties. We didn't have the same regulations, so other cars of the MG rubber bumper era here still looked fine, also the rubber bumpers neatly coincided with a significant drop in quality from the factory, and by that time the MG B was *really* dated, so it kind of…

You absolutely can, exactly what I did too, run a V8 Vantage as my only car.

at least in the UK, the top spot in sales figures has consistently been an iphone. At the moment it's it's top two spots. No idea about the rest of Europe though, but I see a lot of iPhones when on business trips http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/mobile…

As others have said, it's really not *that* hard. You'd have to pull the ROM that the Z80 boots from, and read it, but that's not hard if they're socketed, and easy to get to. You'd need someone with the correct ROM / EPROM reader from the 80s, but I bet they're not that rare. Hell, they might even still be used for…

They found somewhere in Africa that's big enough, and cleared all the stones off it. I don't remember the figures, but it's HUGE.

It doesn't really look that different to the old car (certainly not better), and Bamford Rose (small Aston tuning house in Warwickshire) can get the old one to 560hp for a little outlay, so it's not the end of the world. It's what I would/will do if/when I get a V12 Vantage.

Interesting that it's a torque converter auto. The vantage road cars have either 6 speed stick/paddle shift manuals (v8 and v12, gratziano), or 7 speed paddle shift manuals (v8s, not sure who by).