That’s the Integrale, which was it’s successor.
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It’s the name of the car, though.
Mine was the Delta HF 4WD and the next one was the Delta Integrale as in your photo, and the one after that was the Delta Integrale Evo.
They were the production names of the three cars.
- actually, I think the offical name of the “Evo” was the Integrale 16v - it was referred to as the Evo, though.
Here’s some info:
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I see your point.
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Greater Bee Fly. They’re funny little buggers
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Greater Bee Fly! Wow never heard of these critters, does look odd for sure. Great shot
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They hover above the flowers, kind of looks like an insect hummingbird 
I should take a video next time I see one. I’ll be back where I took this picture next week, there were quite a few of them around.
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Of course, different cars have different names in different countries too, such as the Ford Cortina (Taunus) and the Vauxhall Chevette (Kadett) for example.
@Johnny thats interesting, i always thought the kadett was an astra, never new it was a chevette originally.
I had a kadett left hand drive that i bought for a tenner and stuck a red top in there for a giggle. It was awful.
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It was both, IIRC. The Chevette and Astra weren’t built at the same time. While the name in the Uk changed, I seem to remember in Germany it was considered just a new type of Kadett.
I just Googled it and both types came up under Kadett 
edit - I think the Chevette one is the C Kadett - but not totally sure. I did have one for a while, but it was a looong time ago.
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Kadett and Astra are both a thing in Germany. IIRC the Astra came out some time during the 90ties.
My Grandpa used to drive a Kadett E and later in the 90ies an Astra F which he drove until he gave up his driver license in the late 2000s
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LOL, in Italy we have the Fiat Ritmo and, trust me, you definitely want to change the name if you hope to sell it in Spain.
PS: Part of the horrid Ritmo was used to create the Delta, by the way.
We call those “zweefvlieg” (hovering fly) in .nl. They are one of the more fragile parts of the insect kingdom, and their variety and abundance has plummeted over the past few decades. They seem to be on the rise again however. And yes, their flight patterns are… interesting.
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Hey komemiute, where did you attain your most excellent command of English, including idioms? Same goes for @schurem? You boys communicate as if it was your native tongue.
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Couple of things for me:
Dutch TV was about 75% subtitled American TV, 20% subtitled English TV and 5% palatable Dutch production. So while we read the gist of what was said, we got to listen to the original voice track. This is perfect immersion training. My generation has perfect command of the english language having grown up on subtitled Star Trek Next Gen. Set a course for the future, warp six, engage!
Second major factor was games. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was not subtitled, and demanded a (admittedly very limited) working knowledge of grammar and syntax. And from there on out, games taught me English. Well my English teachers also did, but yeah. Games. (also literature, and poetry, and songs, but mostly games)
Third, I have been an aviation geek since I was about nine. To read about aviation, you want to be able to read English. So I did. I also read in German, even though I managed to score a -1 (out of 10 being the best) for a German test in school. But I did read and make sense of those books on luftwaffle experimentals. Because that stuff was fascinating.
Fourth, the internet. I was there when IRC was the thing. The only way to shine in those social spaces (and that goes for social media like this forum too tbh) is to have a witty, rich command of the language. A good roast does not repeat, does not rehash but is insult heaped upon insult in a myriad creative ways. Your momma…
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Yes, I haven’t seen them in years and then there were a whole bunch of them. I’ll try to get some video next week.
The German name for them is “Wollschweber”, it literally means “woollen hoverer” 
Today I managed to observe a pair of kingfishers but couldn’t get close enough to get some good photos
Nonetheless I do have some sort of picture:
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Nature is healing, despite some dire prospects. The EU has done a lot in driving back pollution. If only people would stop spraying glyophosphates on their godawful concrete paver yards!
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I will be honest, knowing the internet for what it is, I initially felt your message was deeply soaked in sarcasm…
Then I remembered I’m not on Twitter or Reddit, but on Mudspike.
Well, I really can’t tell… I’m 45 and I have been reading English since the earliest days of gaming with my C64 as its boxed games infallibly mostly came with English booklets and, even more so, the games themselves were always in English.
I do realize that since I met my PhD-owning wife my knowledge of the language improved dramatically as she cured a lot of lingo and street-speak.
My job has also been mostly an international environment too and professional aviation on top of that so I guess some rubbed off and stuck to me.
Edit: Ugh, of course I was typing the message above while watching a movie with my kids and butchered completely syntax and grammar. My humblest apologies. I’ll fix it now.
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Maintenance is an every day occurance at Planes of Fame.
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I remember that horrendous thing!
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