Meanwhile, in a Ford Galaxy, Far, Far Away...

Today, Autoguide tell us that "If the Millennium Falcon Was a Car, Here’s What it Would Look Like" - together with this picture: 

No it bloody wouldn't!  That's a Nissan!

 

And, worse than that - it's an SUV!

 

Wouldn't fancy taking that down the local high street, the view out is abysmal:

Also, I'd always assumed the MF was right-hand drive, like the USS Enterprise.  I thought Chewbacca was the driver.

 

Meanwhile, the Minecraft Millennium Falcon looks like an Oreo.

It's probably actually very clever - I'm not sure because I never ventured beyond Lego.  The info is here.

 

Meanwhile, back to Nissan:  What has Star Wars got to do with a Nissan X-Trail (for that is what that car really is) anyway?  Surely they'd be better with a Ford Falcon - especially a late '70s version from when Star Wars was good: 

Ah, well there's the clever bit.  In the US, the X-Trail is called The Rogue - as in Star Wars Rogue One - Geddit?

 

Meanwhile, back to the '70s when Star Wars was good (Phantom Menace put me off for ever) - another Japanese manufacturer produced a special Star Wars themed car, I give you the Toyota Celica GT - Star Wars Special:

Nice.

 

Unlike the Nissan.

 

Last week, on Star Wars day, Car+Driver ran with this story about that car.  Today, nobody knows what happened to it.

 

Unusually for a Japanese car, I suspect it has broken down somewhere: