Rover 3500 Van den Plas

Beats the Opel bloody Kadett, wouldn’t get close to eight jet engines, and as for the Rotary Mazda — well, who can honestly say what would happen upon a Wankel gambit? A good meta-metaphor for how life’s metaphors don’t always, as they say, bear close examination.

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For in the game, a V8 Rover — okay, okay, with plush seats — may edge out an Audi Quattro or the Jaguar XJ6, but who in real life would be seen dead in one?

See also

• The JC’s own FWMD Top Trumps game
• Top Trumps
• Rotary Mazda
• Rover 3500 Van den Plas
• Opel bloody Kadett - the Supertramp of seventies automotives.
• If military aircraft are more your thing, eight jet engines