Oui :)

Ah Jean Ragnotti, a god amongst men. I grew up watching videos of him driving (I loved the one where you saw him do his magic with his feet). I will probably see him this saturday, as I'm going to a rally he will be part of (though he won't be driving).

Oh yeah! I don't have a XboX, but I'm so happy to have a racing game set in southern France. Since I'm in Aix-en-Provence (near Marseille, two hours from Monaco) for 6 more months I'll try to do something for you guys :)

Rally events have to obey safety regulations (spectating areas, mandatory distance between the road and the area, ...) but you can't have a marshal at every corner of the event. Spectators have to be smart about it and not stand were it is OBVIOUSLY unsafe to be.

Mandated spectating areas already exist.

As always, you can't control people, most of them will follow safety rules, but you always find a few spectators in dangerous places. I've been going to rallies since I was 5 (so more than 15 years now), and no matter how many signs there are, some people always choose to stand were it isn't safe, you can't put…

I think they are already rules for distance between the roads and the spectators area. It's the case for every rally event in France, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same in the UK since I think these rules were made by the FIA.

We can. But just like in GroupB era, we can't keep spectators on a leash.

The thing is that spectator should be safe with all the FIA regulations on safety, with mandatory distance between the road and the spectators. So this shouldn't happened, or people should have the time to run to safety.

Meh. If you want to go flat out in a corner, and don't want your car to have body roll, only one solution, buy a Citroën Xantia Activa V6. You know the car that has been king of the moose test for the past 20 years.

Well, Jag is already building 6 brand new lightweight E-type. I don't know if Jalopnik talk about it.

Us French weirdos ad milk to the potatoes, so they're not just mashed, you don't have any solid potato bits in it.

I would say my father 308 (not the new one) that has those huge side mirrors. We can get it in our garage, but the garage door is quite narrow, and only 2 cm between a mirror and the wall... Their other car, a 2001 Passat (V6 TDI ^^) fits just fine though.

Yeah. Not our proudest hour...

That's what ports are for. Automakers estimate how many cars they think they'll sell and then they produce that many, on schedule, and park them outside the production facility. Then they're taken to a port. Then they're shipped to the markets where they're sold, the cars are parked, and then shipped by train and…

And don't forget the fact that the manufacturers are selling cars through THEIR dealers, unlike in the states where dealer are not related directly to the manufacturer.

In France it's priced at 38k€ so I would say it would cost around the same as a WRX and would be cheaper than an STI (the STI is almost 50k€ in France). So around 25k€

What about the Citroën C-Cactus? Only 965kg.

The A75 in France, between Clermont-Ferrand (home of Michelin) and Montpelier. 335 km (approx. 200 miles) of wonderful tarmac. Gorgeous landscapes (volcanos, canyon of the Tarn river,...), great cuisine everywhere around the autoroute, and as an added benefit the Millau Viaduct is part of the autororoute. And besides…

I was at the Empire State Performance Rally in Rock Hill, New York over the weekend. It's a one-of-a-kind event here in America, as it's the only current stage rally run on tarmac. That is, it's run on paved roads. That is, it's run on country roads snaking straight through towns and developments about an hour and a…