Not too bad all things considered, actually. That part of town wasn’t too bad, it took me quite a while to get there, and there was a bar across the street.

The hilarious part is you're probably the 10th driver of that particular rental that has never found the keys...

A lot of places don’t give you keys - they live in the car, and they tell you to just pick one from the designated lane. Those are usually larger companies that have secure facilities for the cars. I guess when you have the capability it's a lot easier than keeping up with all the separate keys.

Yup, my VW did that too... Was the same car that left my wife stranded in an intersection when she stalled it (TDI power band was so narrow it was easy to do), and then wouldn’t restart because key was 50miles away at the house. Damn thing never made a peep she she took off.

Why are the doors still on this thing?

That my question:

Okay I’ll take a weird one for this:

Okay I’ll start off by admitting that a Defender is my bucket list vehicle, hands down (okay, a Caterham R500 also qualifies).

I've read about 20 pages of posts now out of the 6000-odd replies, and it seems like a much shorter list would be to name teams that have NOT been involved in sketchy funding, no?

Went searching for “Vespa Engine Swap”

Right, like the Twin Mill...

That's a good one - our contract machining shop has a nice wire EDM that does some amazing shit - been thinking that it can't be that hard to make one too...

This is the specific response I was thinking of too, plus proper hoon (rally preferably).

1. Buy ridiculously posh luxobarge like Bentley, RR, etc.

As I understand it, the NP300 will be coming to the US, as the new version of the Frontier. That being said, the diesel option may or may not happen, and they will most certainly be loaded up on options and in the $30k range for 4x4 crew models...

Love that the “accessory” is also topless... Bugatti

The “Hot Wheels Edition Camaro”

Actually that’s brilliant - see if we can get the Nigerian princes to all buy Super Replicas, you know, as a safe place to put their money...

And that is why I will never attempt to track down the last vehicle I truly loved - the crushing disappointment when I realize that the successive owner(s) did not love it anywhere as much as I did and abused the crap out of it the moment it was out of my sight.

One of these things is not like other. Thanks for the good laugh Doug...