Topic: Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys beat 5 of 9 BMW E30s
So there you have it, folks: when shopping for your next Lemons car, the Peugeot 505 Turbo is a better choice than the BMW E30... even if the 505 only has third gear! You E30-ers on the Formula BMW (5th place), Pandamonimum Racing (7th place), Bavarian Beer Wagon (10th place), and B-Team (17th place) teams can breathe a sigh of relief that you didn't get humiliated by the 37th-place Force De Frappe Peugeot. If you're saying to yourself "Yeah, but that's three E30s in the Top Ten, mang!" keep in mind that most of the teams that did manage to beat the Stig's French Cousin were serious Lemons veterans with endless Altamont and Thunderhill experience (though the B-Team, who got extra-special tormenting from the Lemons Supreme Court due to their unwise decision to stay at the same motel as the Lemons crew while driving an M5, was made up of first-timers and did quite well to crack the top 20).
My prediction was for the 505 to beat 6/9 of the E30s, so I underestimated the Ultimate Driving Machines this time. Perhaps if the Cheese Eaters had brought a 504 instead of a 505... well, maybe next race.
Those of you who entered the contest on Jalopnik will get the results soon. Yeah, real soon. One of you wins something from Lemons HQ.