The Tesla traveling 100mph impacted a pole, which tore the Tesla in half. The back half of the Tesla wedged itself into a building. The front of the Tesla, with now ruptured battery casing, slid to a halt and sparked as the batteries arced and did in fact catch fire.

Batteries, while indeed flammable, are much slower to ignite than is gasoline.

Elon will make optional titanium rocker panel gussets for people concerned about the risk of car bifurcation in the event of high speed lateral impacts into poles or trees.

Further proof that the Tesla Model S is the safest car ever built. A gas powered car would have stopped running after impacting the first few cars and signs. The Tesla only stopped after it was broken in half.

Can't wait! Just as I'm restoring and hot ridding mine.

This is the pinnacle of human achievement. It's all downhill from here.

Yet another reason to go junk yard prowling in Italy. Those taillights are disturbingly proportioned. When I look at the picture, an obsessive part of my brains screams, "THAT'S WRONG!!1!1one!!".

The Abarth is a great daily car, I can always find a parking spot. We get 25-ish mpg in our short, traffic filled, city commute and up to 35 mpg on road trips. With the back seat folded down, it's like a little shooting brake. My dog loves riding back there. I highly reccomend everyone try out an Abarth, if…

Yep. Pre-BL cars can be quite good. Similarly, the old Lucas mechanical voltage regulator in my car works great.

Longbridge wasn't all bad. My car was built there in 1960 and is still kicking.

No quality issues at all, it's been boringly reliable through the past 22 months and 18k miles.

I agree with liking the appearance of the concentric circles style of the instrument panel. However, in use it is difficult to read the tachometer. So difficult that I end up using the rev limiter to tell when to shift.

Love the redesigned center display. My '12 Abarth's display looks like a Gameboy in comparison. I won't speak of the optional transmission, for I give a shift.

Woops. Nice of him to apologize.

The green circle represents the most important thing about this article. That a "Build Race Party" logo. The v8 Bimmer might have been more focused (heh) on building and partying than racing. Or the guy is new to the 'ring.

Now just wait a minute! This is a travesty!

Yes.

I love riding bikes! Many of the racing techniques are complimentary between disciplines (line selection, weight shift, drafting, intimidation).

Surely they gave you a commission of an old Roadster drivetrain, right? That's just the thing to wake up your Beetle's performance at the next Ultimate Street Car Challenge.

This is turning F1 into 80's style professional wrestling.