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Just saw this little footballer's toy featured in an Autocar review. Hispano-Suiza, all electric, 1,099 bhp, 180 mph and a 250 mile range. Yours for €1.65m, plus tax. I think perhaps I'll buy two, so that I'll have a spare for Sundays while my man is emptying the ashtrays.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/hi ... 021-review

Actually, the only thing that would stop me buying three is the terrible colour scheme. Black and copper-gold plastic is soooooooooo 1970s, don't you think? John Player Special, and Ferrero Rochers, and all those bottles of dodgy sweet liqueur that only came out at Christmas.

Still, I'm sure the Caped Crusader would have been queuing up to buy one. Now, if only it made a proper noise? The review suggests that it's silent. Oh well, you can't have everything. Not even for a couple of mill.

BJ

[monabri]

Is the bit of clear plastic on the instrument binnacle included?

[bungeejumper]

Is the bit of clear plastic on the instrument binnacle included?

Clear plastic? How dare you, sir?

That's the authentic windscreen from a real genuine space shuttle, that is. Lovingly polished by a thousand skimpily-clad Spanish virgins, individually sand-engraved for every customer using dust from real dinosaur bones, and rinsed in Elon Musk's jealous tears. Cheap at the price, sir.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

The Duke de Richleau drives an Hispano-Suiza in The Devil Rides Out. This is all I know about the marque
He would, no doubt, find this current version rather tasteless

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The Duke de Richleau drives an Hispano-Suiza in The Devil Rides Out. This is all I know about the marque
He would, no doubt, find this current version rather tasteless

They used to be quite classy, I think. The kind of big old open tourers that Hitler and Franco and the Shah of Iran had a taste for, which might be the reason why they went out of production after 1946? The infallible Wikipedia says that the engine block for the J12 was machined from a single solid block of metal weighing 700 pounds. They didn't mess about, then.

Not a lot of people know this, but one of the new car's lesser-known tricks is that it does a transformer dance that turns itself into a robotic monster like those Citroens in the C4 adverts:


BJ

[ReformedCharacter]

They used to be quite classy, I think. The kind of big old open tourers that Hitler and Franco and the Shah of Iran had a taste for, which might be the reason why they went out of production after 1946? The infallible Wikipedia says that the engine block for the J12 was machined from a single solid block of metal weighing 700 pounds. They didn't mess about, then.

BJ

I saw one at a car exhibition in the 1970's, it was probably a model from the 20's. It was massive and most impressive. They were nicknamed 'Piano-Squeezers' IIRC.

RC

[stevensfo]

Just saw this little footballer's toy featured in an Autocar review. Hispano-Suiza, all electric, 1,099 bhp, 180 mph and a 250 mile range. Yours for €1.65m, plus tax. I think perhaps I'll buy two, so that I'll have a spare for Sundays while my man is emptying the ashtrays.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/hi ... 021-review

Actually, the only thing that would stop me buying three is the terrible colour scheme. Black and copper-gold plastic is soooooooooo 1970s, don't you think? John Player Special, and Ferrero Rochers, and all those bottles of dodgy sweet liqueur that only came out at Christmas.

Still, I'm sure the Caped Crusader would have been queuing up to buy one. Now, if only it made a proper noise? The review suggests that it's silent. Oh well, you can't have everything. Not even for a couple of mill.

BJ

My first impression is that it's advertising something, and as you say, I'd expect to see 'Marlboro' or 'Amazon Prime' written on the side.

At 1700kg, it's about the same weight as my enormous Volvo XC60 that is useful for taking stuff to the tip. Seems a bit over the top for an electric motor.

180mph? In 2021 aren't these sort of figures/statistics wearing a bit thin? I start feeling guilty at anything over 60mph.

Re, dodgy sweet liqueurs, my mum still likes a bottle of Spanish '43', though the Marie Brizard, Southern Comfort, Galliano, Cointreau etc have long since been forgotten.

Steve

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That's my Christmas present sorted.

[AleisterCrowley]

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Re, dodgy sweet liqueurs, my mum still likes a bottle of Spanish '43', though the Marie Brizard, Southern Comfort, Galliano, Cointreau etc have long since been forgotten.

Steve

I like a drop of Cointreau...and Drambuie... and I don't care.
Galliano were an acid jazz beat combo...

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I like a drop of Cointreau...and Drambuie... and I don't care.

hmm .. a "Rusty Orange"? that could work!