I... actually don’t hate that. But for the love of $deity don’t let Uwe Boll see it... we’ll get Smokey and the Bandit 2020 (starring this, and Nicholas Cage in the Burt Reynolds role) before you can say “tacky remake”, ugh

I feel like it would be shades of that XKCD comic strip where an academic History department trumpets how they’ve managed to study a whole 5 months of past history over the last year, only to be swamped by a full 12 months’ worth of new history being created in that time.

Oh God, the repressed memories all coming back now. The horror. You swine.

Agreed. I used to have a C30 R-Design. Lovely car, great fun to drive, the exterior styling was great, the interior was comfortable - but oh, so very plasticky and cheap-looking. Just looked nasty, even compared to my 2001 V40. Such a shame.

No, Scooty Puff Jr su............

Eh, normal for Bristol. He & his mate probably drank the entirety of that Thatcher’s Cider barrel, chased it with some farm-gate grade scrumpy, at which point doing this project seemed like a good idea.

Was that black Hilux done as a Back to the Future tribute or is it just utter coincidence that it looks like Marty’s truck?

Touché!

I know that nit-picking a stranger’s spelling on the Internet is rather like trying to bail out the Atlantic into the Pacific using a teaspoon, but... it’s “reining” in this context, as in horse reins.

“There is no way, no way that you sprang from my loins”

Technically correct is the best kind of correct, remember?

Upvoted just for mention of the Volvo 340. That and the 360 have almost faded from public consciousness now, and they were actually good cars at the time.

So you’re on the track in your Porsche or Ferrari, giving it the beans around the corners and on the straights... and you get passed by a 2CV. How emasculating would that be?

Thomas and friends - rolling coal since 1947!

So, this being 2020, we’ve moved on from “Cats/Houses That Look Like Hitler” to “Car Fronts/Rears That Inspire Strip-Mall Architects”?

It’s a Shrinky-Dink Viper!

People like that make me want to explode like a nucular bomb!

OK, I know this is probably vaporware. But it at least looks like something I’d want to buy. Tesla’s styling has (IMHO...) really aged badly and badly needs updating. Shades of 80s-era Ford jellybean designs (Sierra/Merkur spring to mind).

In the UK at least, any “cool shit” we get is more than outweighed by the utter shitboxes we have had to put up with. See: just about anything made by BL in the 70s.