Three snapshots from my trip yesterday to the top secret Opel Test Range (the general meeting of the German classic car clubs-umbrella organisation was hold there). On the range -photographing is of course strctly forbidden- I couldn't spot something extraordinary, just a prototype of the new Corsa)

I thought "WTF, that's a name for a vehicle?" - but it is indeed. Never saw one before.




Here I was wondering, how the owner could pass the German TÜV-inspection. I's a mid-80ies Renault 5 phase2 - with the original French yellow headlights. Normally they are strictly forbidden over here.
The owner is obviously very francophile: the R5 had still the "F"-sticker on the back - and the grille was coloured as the Tricolore




Sorry for the bad pic -it's the best of the dozen, I tried to make-, but it was dark and heavy raining.





When it changed the lane in front of me, I was very irritated about the red-flashing indicator lights and the red sidemarkers, because I've already identified it as an Opel Astra H, so nothing US-origin.

Then I could identify it as an Saturn Astra with such plates:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfz-Kennzeichen_der_kanadischen_Streitkr%C3%A4fte_in_Deutschland#/media/File:POMV-Plate-CDN-SC-888.JPG

(for private cars of Canadian servicemen in Germany).