I've just read "Spirou in Moscow" and noticed two strange things:
After supposedly "killing" Spirou and Fantasio, Prince Tanaziof/Zantafio's right hand man Nikita orders a taxi...to the "Winter Palace" The Winter Palace, however, is in Saint Petersburg and not Moscow.

Despite the subtitles, every Russian translation is either gibberish or a quote from (I guess) a Tolstoi or Dostojevski work. When I translate the comics later on, I'm going to make sure the translation is proper!

And thirdly, Spirou, Fantasio and Spip are all seen with ushankas on the cover (it looks kind of cute on Spip ) but they are never seen dressed that way in the story.

Yes, that was the car I meant.

Do you mean this car?


Remember that Franquin worked also on Starter, the column dedicated to cars in the Spirou Magazine, during the 1950s and that he has been helped by Jidéhem (the guy who took over Starter in the 1960s) from 1957 onwards. You should certainly not expect the same accuracy about cars in Fournier's drawings, as he was clearly not that picky about cars: his drawings make them a lot more cartoonish. So is this "Honda" really a Honda, and does it exist in reality?
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A 2-star vehicle

(Full size here)

...and now I am facing another mystery. "Du glucose pour Noémie" contains a very strange Honda which doesn't seem to be listed anywhere on Wikipedia (no, it's not the S800, it's something else)
This Honda had an S600/S800 rear end, but it was a sedan...

I've found some pictures of the "'47 Chevy" but now that I look at it, I think it is either a Dodge or a Plymouth:

There are so many cars still worth mentioning, but it would take a huge comment to post them all.

On the very first page of "Z comme Zorglub" one can see a Ford Prefect 100E crashing into a Simca Aronde. I'm pretty sure the Ford wasn't sold anywhere outside of the Isles, let alone the Benelux countries.

At the end of "La foire aux Gangsters" there is a 57-61 DeSoto parked on the lawn of Ville Champignac. The car is wearing a US-untypical oval "USA" sticker on the back, which may imply that it was sold off by an American serviceman somewhere in Germany.
(The story itself contains an unusual amount of US cars, from the top of my head a '58 Ford and a junked '47 Chevy.)

I wondered about that one, too. The lines are very Ghia-ish, similar to the 1954 De Soto Adventurer II, but it's possible that it's a fantasy car, similar to the Quick and the Turbots.

i didn't see that one, i just missed the wanted one then

Yes, the second one.

Some other background yellow cars in Les Pirates du silence:

Renault Juvaquatre Fourgonnette	???	A brand new MG A?

(Click on a picture to see a larger version)

I think it's the second one you're talking about, Gamer?

@ Baube:
The Quick Super is a separate short story at the end of the album. It's about this car: