Is it possible to display more of the forum path in the forum column when you are doing a search? For instance, I commonly use the "Today's Posts" quick link, when I am looking at new threads I can see that a particular thread is in the "Cooper S" forum, but I don't know whether that is a First Gen or Second Gen. If you could display the next higher level forum in the hierarchy we could more easily distinguish if the thread is pertinent or not.
Just looking over the settings that is not possible. There may be a hack that allows for that and I'll look over the next few days. Otherwise the only solution would be to rename the forums. Instead of "Cooper S" the change would be on the order of "Cooper S :: 2nd Gen" and "Cooper S :: 1st Gen"
What if in the first gens they were changed to R50 and R53, I know the Cabrios would be a grey area but it would be pretty clear then what's being talked about.