A 1982 Camaro Z28 as a birthday gift for the seller’s wife, sounds like ultimate man maths at work here.

I think that’s my point as a supercar it is maybe the greatest of all time, but in carrying out the functions you expect in general of a car - providing transportation and carrying small amounts of cargo - it is probably worse at it than the likes of a Vega.

The early Lamborghini Countach, as a supercar it is fantastic, but objectively as a car it is terrible. Early examples were impossible to fit in if you were more than 5ft 10 tall (I’ve tried), impossible to see anything outside other than what is in front of you, limited ventilation so it gets really hot inside and…

Indeed the other side of this story is someone really wanted out of that NSX quickly and didn’t care what it sold or really didn’t do their homework.

I’m old enough to remember watching it live. There seems to be some vagueness about where the start finished line was, but at the time at least it was said Prost did not cross the start finish line or take the chequered (and red) flag because his car failed on the start finish straight. On seeing Prost’s car fail Ickx…

I guess if you split by drivers rather than engine suppliers you could say the Schumacher era Benetton and Alonso (1st stint with the team) era Benetton were equally successful.

Also worth noting it’s also the only circuit on this year’s calendar to be owned by a company that owns an active F1 team in Red Bull. You would think a company like Red Bull who put on big events around the world (not just F1) would be more organised in stewarding their events?

Do you every get the hybrid lease /finance deals like the PCP purchases in in the UK. Car is on finance but instead of the monthly payments being based on the whole cost of the car they are based on the cost less an agreed buy back after x number of years. The agreed buy back is based on a max number of miles like a…

Absolutely correct, any recalculation cannot take into account different decision making had the points gaps been different. Would Senna have piled into Prost in Suzuka in 1990 for example.

There is a you tube video where someone went through and recalculated each world championship season if the current scoring system had been used all through the years. It’s a boring video (and I can’t find it now) but interesting highlights were;

Rating them by points scored is meaningless as the points awards has changed many times over the history of Formula 1, and up to the late eighties early nineties the official totals were the best of x out of y number of races. Prost massively outscored Senna points wise but Senna’s best nine of 16 results gave him…

The E36 was a great car when new, I had two of them, but even accounting for the whole rare in America thing no S.O.H.C. 4 pot E36 is worth $12,000 especially with 160,000 miles on the clock. ND.

Neutral; Kind of felt the same that I would avoid it, until I caught it in May. Sickest I’ve felt in 20 years couldn’t get out of bed for 3 days and still have a residual cough that I didn’t have before a month after testing negative.

Okay this is a bit on the high miles side but a Volvo V60 must be worth looking at and should swallow the bouldering crash pads easily

Probably the UK version of Motortrend + has already been absorbed into Discovery +

Yes F1 should take more of a stand against racism, but on the specific point of Piquet, he is a now a private citizen who as far as I’m aware has no involvement in the running of F1 so other than condemning him what can they do. At best F1 could make the token point of taking away his lifetime paddock pass that he…

I’ve already been to the 24 hours of Le Mans, the Nurburgring 24 hours, the British GP, Monaco GP and the Italian MotoGP, so that is quite a lot ticked off on the bucket list already. I’m sure the Italian GP must have an epic atmosphere with the Tifosi (especially in a year when Ferrari is competitive), but I reckon…

Considering McMurty is a tiny company (18 employees according to the most recent filing in the UK) I wonder if they are fielding quite a few phone calls from bigger manufacturers this morning? Especially those looking at high performance EV’s for the road or racing?

Seen one or two in the UK (they even offered them in RHD). They probably sold more cars than the others on this list put together but most would be in their French home market.

The design was fundamentally sound and did win a GP the 1976 Swedish GP. The car struggled more on bumpy circuits and Goodyear did not really want to develop a special tyre for just one team. Williams and Ferrari both looked (and even built prototype) 6 wheel cars at the same time until the FIA mandated only four…