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Uff, there’s much to like here! Sure they’re super kitsch. Garish even. But I love them – every single one of them…

My two favourites have to be the black Kadett City with vivid stripes and not least that […]

What a bizarre coincidence @jakob356
Good to see you preparing duly for the apocalypse. ;-)
I think we should all make sure we have a L3314 / C202 / C303 ready in our drive…

Excellent! We have an ex-Arna owner amongst us here on ViaRETRO. @Jon Fraser, I salute you Sir! I wish you had shared a picture of your Arna with us…

Though, I’m not entirely sure why you are so angry, […]

He might not have won the Championship, but he was indeed a Champion!
RIP Sir Sterling Moss and thank you for all that you gave us…

I’m certainly not here to make any rules either – quite the contrary, I tend to break rules more often than I make them… ;-)

But I personally have come to quite like the Series 3 Spider. Yes, I admit that […]

@Tony, there’s no doubt that this RME is entirely worthy of being a Prime Find. It just won’t be living in my garage… ;-)

@Claus, if you want a British 50’s saloon and one which was actually developed in […]

I largely have to agree with you @jakob356. The RME certainly has its place in automotive history and I can easily see why some enthusiasts fall for its charms. But personally, it wouldn’t be my choice. Just […]

Excellent!
Surely this must be the next best thing after physically time-travelling back to April of 1953… ;-)

The yellow W123 is simply killer-cool…
But to be honest, so is the orange, the red, the olive green, the gold, the ice blue metallic, the burgundy and the dark green. It’s just refreshing that there are so few […]

I don’t recall whether the City was only available in 1.0 and 1.2-litre guise, or whether a 1.6S was also available in the hatchback body? Either way, all of Opel’s CIH engines will obviously slot right in […]

Well, yes and no Dave. That 63% was actually shared between the 2-door and 4-door saloon. I don’t have any numbers on the exact ratio of 2-door to 4-door, but I do know that the 2-door outsold the 4-door by a […]

@Viiince
On ViaRETRO we have always maintained that any classic is better than no classic. Taste will always vary from one enthusiast to the next – and that’s a good thing! If the Beta Spider puts a smile on […]

What a wonderfully peculiar oddity you’ve treated us to here Dave. I must confess that I knew nothing of its existence until now. All of which of course means that I immediately convinced myself that I need to […]

I must say this ticks a whole lot of boxes for me!

Like everyone else, I quite like the legendary Mark II – how could you not after all? The Jaguar 420 is to my eyes the one that looks a little clumsy. But I […]

It is indeed a very odd world which we have awoken to. All normality – across the board – seems out the window and it would appear this is a situation which we may have to accept for quite some time still.

As […]

On a deserted Autobahn in the middle of night, making quicktime for home after a couple of days at the Nürburgring, I once saw 292 km/h on the GPS while behind the wheel of a vivid orange first-generation Porsche […]

Not many will ever match Jackie’s coolness factor of the seventies! I guess @Ole Wichmann, naming your dog after him could be the next best thing though… ;-)

However, we chose to name our dog – a little […]