1st Gear:  Stop pining for the rotary engine.  It’s not going to happen.  It’s time has passed and if you take off the rose tinted spectacles and set aside the highly specific use case of the LeMans racer, it was a shitty, fuel inefficient, offensively noisy, weak torque engine.  Stop romaticising it.

My government is not big on thinking generally.  I wouldn’t waste a moment thinking about it.  Let us self destruct and hopefully in the end the much needed fuckwit readjustment here will happen and we can all move forward.  I expect that to be about a generation or so.  Until, I’m sorry for everything you have to…

Lanzante have possibly the best website in the world:

Our Bradley Brownell suggested dropping the price to about $22,000 and amazingly, that’s just what LiveWire did. The LiveWire One starts at $21,999.

Bored.  I feel bored about it.

http://www.turbo-electric.com/

I know.  I live here.

Wow.  I bet both potential customers are pissed.

Lancia, always Lancia.

It’s actually not in real workd use. It’s there in your periphery and you always see it. Also they make excellent continent crossing machines.

British people voted for Brexit too.  What British people think shouldn’t really be listened to.

Easy.  Citroen SM.

I went for a visit to Chernobyl & Pripyat. It was fascinating. I would highly recommend it if you can. If at all possible, pay extra and go in a small group. 2 of us went in. We saw things you shouldn’t really see and would have been out of bounds for a larger group.

The only way I can see this working is for services but you have a phone for that? Why would I pay twice and juggle 2 interfaces?

he’s saying that a human’s desired actions — the input — is, somehow, never worth acting upon? Because it’s “error?”

A manual transmission

First Gear: Why would think that what *you* want is important to a car maker?  It’s what they can take from you that’s important to them.

No, it literally isn’t.

It’s vulgar and I love it.  Peak Bentley.

Easy. Same way we make any F1 interesting: