Cars you didn't know existed...

They are lovely things. Shame they never made it to the UK.

In South America at the moment and spotting a lot of cars that I've never heard of before.

The Volkswagen Gol is one of them. At first I thought someone had just knocked the 'f' off the back of the car but nope, its a whole model that has several generations.

The pickup and saloon versions are also popular in South Africa, small pickups are very popular there, you could also get a version based on the mk5 Fiesta.

I was looking at the physics of how to design 3 wheel "reverse trike" cars. Make them low, eye front track and have lots of weight in front of the front axle are all good ideas. (That's why a Morgan 3 wheeler has its engine right out at the front.)

These... Aren't a good idea. Far too much weight in the rear, far too tall for their wheelbase, too narrow a front track.

Mars red was ok IIRC. It was the Tornado Red that became Tornado Pink over time lol

The rear lights of the Thesis are what Morgan use as the rear lights of the Aero 8

Lancia even with an aging model, has outsold Alfa in the EU. Crazy really

Yes and that what makes it even worse, Alfa really is struggling. People just don't buy beutity, and even in there home country.

Alfa struggles in its home market partly because the taxes on decent sized engines that do justice to the marque are eye-watering and partly because the dealer network here in Italy is as st as it is in the UK, if not worse. There is also some manufacturer marketing confusion, methinks. At the Alfa Museum in Arese, they seem keener to flog Jeeps than the Giulia...so rather than capitalising on 100 years of the finest motoring history, they’ll push some ghastly plasticky agricultural Yank tank instead. If the makers aren’t proud of what they make, why should anybody else be interested?

Lancia has, of course, gone the way of all flesh and is irredeemable; nobody buys a modern Lancia magically expecting a modernised Fulvia. They are just cheap rebadged st boxes and bought by people who don’t give a stuff for motoring.

Many owners of original wheels at each corner variants manage to do the same