if (...) you saw a 2CV and a Mehari side by side, I don’t know if you’d immediately realize that under the skin, they’re pretty much the same vehicle.

I enjoy your comments very much but will not star this one because I found the joke very funny :-)

The word is French indeed (never said it was Italian,it is linked to baudet as well, a horse/donkey mix), just that it was not French in origin. Wiki does mention the first ones being in mid-18th century France, but the source is spotty and contradicts what I’ve seen in Italy.

Likewise my uncle, and a couple other people I know.

its direct competitors being luxury models such as the (... ) Rolls-Royce Cullinan

The 57/62 were among the ugliest cars (if not outright ugliest) MB ever produced.

I think the answer lies in the word “replica”.

German small 3-row segment (Q7, x5, etc.)

Even just an overnight bag and my perpetually-stuffed backpack took up most of the room back there

Even without taking into account that on looks alone, it should never be mentioned in the same sentence - or even article - as a Camry, that car still has 5 HP more than a Ferrari 348 Competizione.

Ground clearance is 10.8 inches.

All these nice colors and the cars are still ugly.

With this pedigree, it might seem obvious that Land Rover would want to keep the tradition alive

For some reason, I’d think he said in Italian. But we’re left with two unanswerable questions:

Bidets are Italian, I’ll have you know.

I’d be tempted to agree with you, but he did offer A cars, the B1s, B2s, B10s, so maybe it was actually called B11.

No. But I’d feel better if I could run actual computer software on it. Sort of the things I run on my MBP.

Oh, so I’m supposed to read the posts before commenting on them? What next? socialism?

Ettore knew his french.

Few people know that’s what happens with every sentence eventually.