Ordinarily, I would've been right there with you. But then I remember the X5M and X6M.

I'm OK with the engines and all the rest of it, but those designations are getting dizzying, especially for a brand once famous for keeping it sweet and short.

Is it just me, or has a BMW supercar been rumored about since, well, forever? It's probably safe for us to file this in the same cabinet that holds the files on Bigfoot, the Yeti, Nessie, and any other often talked about but never quite proven entity.

Flew in a Lufthansa flight once. I'm not what I'd consider very tall, 6'1 or 6'2, thereabouts.

Seeing as I am an "IT Professional", I'm probably qualified to submit an entry.

Why is my brain whispering "hey, that kind of reminds me of the new F30 Bimmer from some angles..."?

Thanks for that, I had no idea Antonov is now Ukranian. By "Russian", I mistakenly tend to group all the former soviet states in with it for some reason.

Forgot to say thanks for the link, reading through it as we speak.

I have no doubt that Russians are absolutely brilliant at a lot of things. I just don't understand how they manage to make most of it look so otherwordly, strange and downright scary.

What is it with Russians and batshit-crazy design?

I think a Unimog would suffice just fine to be honest. I'm kind of partial to the Casspir though, as it was designed and built in my home country (initially anyway) and it's reckoned to be the most widely used APC today.

I'd have to go with a Casspir APC. Tough as nails and room for 13 people or a whole lot of weapons and ammo. Or a whole lot of jerry cans. Or a very big stockpile of porno.

What's North Korean for 'Tony'?

Granted, they still have a long way to go, but I honestly think they stand a better chance of becoming the next major player than any Chinese manufacturer does. If a Chinese manufacturer does emerge as the next big thing, I'm almost willing to bet that by that point it will only be because China would be the largest…

The next superpower? I'll get to that in a second, but first I'd like to address the China nomination.

Probably not nearly significant enough, but I quite enjoyed the one about Chris Bangle asking Jason Castriotta "why is it a Saab-uh?".

tl;dr: Driving's messed up here yo.

South African reporting in. I'll confirm just about anything bad you can think up about your typical SA driver.

I could be wrong about the SZ influencing the industry, but from the moment I laid eyes on the SZ, it just seemed like the angle from bonnet to boot got more and more pronounced with every other car released after it.

I'm thinking in particular the line that runs from the front of the bonnet to the back of the boot, so not including the greenhouse.