Meanwhile, I’m sitting here wondering when production cars will abandon fuse boxes at all in favor of virtual fuses.

You have either an additional fuse box you didn’t check, or a serious wiring problem. No electrical component is supposed to work fuseless, as unfused wires are a serious fire hazard, especially so in older cars with 70s isolation materials.

The pictures were also taken by someone with track access, as Paul Ricard is fenced off quite generously to prevent spy shots. These are the first “spy shots” from there that are not a maximum zoom grainy mess taken from a km away.

The overall shape and design looks very similar to the other known designs and the car is running on racing tires, so it could be possible.

The current F1 rules limit the maximum fuel flow into the engine, so it is already about fuel econnomy. If everyone has exactly the same amount of fuel to burn, the engine with the lowest specific consumption(grams of fuel/kWh crankshaft work) will have the most power.

And the cars on-track emissions are about 0,7% of the total emissions. The fuel they use over a season is not even enough to fuel an Airbus 350. By going hybrid they just downgraded from a 777ER to something a bit more modern.

From what I know about Burger King, even with an uncensored picture the actual contents of the sandwich would still be a mystery

Or Mugen-Honda

I have never seen anything about the Camry’s battery, so I have no idea

It was just a minor electrical problem, a conrod knocked the alternator off.

Meanwhile, while everyone was giggling about Model S pricing, nobody remembered to pay the water bill, so the construction in Brandenburg had to be suspended because they had their water turned off.

Electric cars here are also not cost competitive. The electric Opel Corsa has a list price 13k higher than the IC one. That means most Corsa buyers can buy a gas one and drive 10 years at 2019 fuel prices, before the electric car catches up on total cost. The Renault Zoe and the Honda E are similarly expensive.

Looking at the line-up, Buick is selling a lot of compact cars, as does VW, as chinese buyers are more price-sensitive and practical to buy US-market SUVs, and those with cash primarily go for german cars. However, the Buick roster contains a worrying amount of Opel-based designs, and with the only GM car I see…

And Lewis has more races per season than Schumacher, and Schumacher had rule changes tailored specifically against him.

The only versions of the G that made sense are the millitary specs, shame they stopped selling those as civilian versions long ago.

My favourite TÜV technicality:

On the retest, they only check the faults noted in the initial report, so it is cheaper.

Export to inspection-free countries is what usually happens to cars that fail and are uneconomical to fix, like the Voyager seems to be.

Modifications get written into the registraition papers, which you have to bring to the inspection. The inspector will then read your Zulassungsbescheinigung Teil 1 and check if the listed parts are still on the car and if they are in good condition.

How much time is remaining on the inspection is listed in basically every used car advert you’ll find. And in the <€5k market, a fresh inspection pushes the value of the car up hundreds of euros