22-year old, 1966 Maserati Mexico, driven by the 19-year old (way in over my head, financially and mechanically) me, with about 170K miles on the odometer (nominally only 62K, when it stopped working in 1975). Electrics frequently went out (although not to the starter) if the driver’s side door was closed gently,…

Or the 0.50 versions if you have to use the same pen to do all of: writing very fast, writing very legibly, sketching diagrams, and taking shorthand at 120wpm+. Best all-round pen in existence, in my view. I walk across the street to buy another 50 or so twice a year (I go through half, my team steals all the others.)…

Or the 0.50 versions if you have to use the same pen to do all of: writing very fast, writing very legibly,…

That’s a sentiment I’m happy to applaud. However, in this instance at least, the context you’re supplying isn’t very helpful. As examples, when you wrote “that the market needed to be slowed for more stable growth” in 1st gear, you likely meant to say “economic growth needed to be slowed”. Similarly, when you wrote “…

I didn’t have time to add this yesterday. I had a couple of laps as a passenger in one about 30 years ago - I think it was a Saoutchik-bodied coupe. The owner compared it to an 80s Corvette - incredibly fast in a straight line but poor brakes (even for its age), a combination of steering and suspension problems that…

Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport. Delicious and far to quick for safety. You can find all the entrants cars’ here: http://www.1000miglia.eu/attach/Content…

Put 50,000m on a 2012 A4 Allroad - no suspension issues of any kind. It’s a little bit brittle on the sport setting but not in an unpleasant way, just a remarkable change of character from the neutral setting. Never tried to offroad it more seriously than a paddock but my daily commute included almost two miles of…

Your comment about the seats and side rail, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, has now cost my company about USD5,000 in billable time as several of us attempted to answer the stock/not stock question. And I’d like to thank our graphics department for their valuable assistance in this endeavour and their good…

The wheel arches make me think it’s a Dongfeng, probably from the 70’s, that has had the cab rebuilt after the first one rotted or was wrecked. The Shanghai Motors versions tend to have no arches. These are more commonly three-wheeled than four, and represent about a third of the the traffic in rural China, especially…