The original MGF and subsequent cars were actually pretty sweet cars for their day and the road tests weren't absolutely scathing as you might expect. I think the journos felt genuinely nostalgic to be driving such a relic!

But does this mean the death of MG in the UK? They are doing quite well in China selling vastly updated versions of the ZT and an all new midsize car is on the way that may be a good springboard for the Chinese into Europe.

One thing is for sure, the poor sods that signed up to be MG dealers all over again are left with a bunch of highly polished turds to offload at bargain money.

I'm feeling quite stupid because I went with brand loyalty and bought TomTom Navigator. I hope they have an update in the works becasue Navigon just added the one feature I'd kill for in TomTom, iPod integration.

I think they will be just fine, we've bought plenty of Wankel engined Mazdas in the UK over the years.

Yep! I just dropped my Camaro off at Avis in Seattle. I quite like the interior to be honest but the visibility sucks. Impressive transmission, flappy paddles that actually work for a change and the engine pulled well for the base model.

No you are quite correct I haven't but I'm sure with my regular trips to the Avis counter there will be a '10 'Stang in my future. They still use that ancient 4.0 V6 though don't they? I know they finally got rid of the 4 speed AT but that engine is such a dreadful POS, bring on the Ecoboost V6!!!

I am currently tooling around in a Camaro LS V6 courtesy of Avis and I have to say compared to the equivalent Mustang the difference is night and day. The 'stang desperately needs to get rid of that dreadful 4.0 V6 for it to be remotely competitive in this segment. Oh and proper independent rear suspension would be appreciated too, the Camaro feels modern and responsive even in softy rental car trim whereas the Mustang feels every bit as old as the retro styling implies.

I'd be interested in how you define 'far better'. I could not find anything that suggests that the re-designed G-Wiz is any better than the one TG crashed.

PS. I noticed the auction has been pulled for some reason.

Go on Bill!!!! I hope Eric Schmidt has Engadget delivered as a feed to his Blackberry so he can read this and weep.

Hooray! The Commodore lives on. I think Maximum Bob fell on the sword to try and save Wagoner's butt when GM became Government Motors yet it didn't work and he had to go anyway (thankfully). With Bob back in the chair we'll see some decent product coming out of the new GM.

I always liked Lutz, I sent him a few of emails over the years and he always responded, personally. One of them asked why they weren't making a XWD version of the 9-3 convertible to give them a competitive product against the Audi A4 Quattro convertible and he sent me this detailed reply asking some very smart questions with me as a loyal SAAB customer. Our email exchange went on for a few days and he ended up telling me that he would have loved to have greenlit a XWD 'vert but the numbers just didn't add up. I got the impression that he is a genuine 'car guy' and that made me think that the company was in pretty good hands. I stand by that now and am very happy to see him back.

Urm, wouldn't this be considered stolen if the person that found it failed to hand it in to lost and found?!