As much as we’d like to think of racing as some sacred pursuit, it’s a business —- a marketing-driven business. So are all the other professional sports. People who are successful in business will have opinions on politics, and if they are in a media-driven business, we shouldn’t be surprised when they show up on TV…

Love the deep dive here! Some damn good journalism.

We have a GTI in the family, and the answer to this question is Miata all day long, if you can live with only two seats. It’s the better driver’s car.

I’d like to hear more about the ride quality of this new Cooper Works. The past ones have been simply too stiff to drive in the city - not merely “uncomfortable,” but into the realm of “mushrooms its own strut mounting points in normal commuting.” I actually softened up the suspension on my R56 Mini Cooper after it…

I bet it means he has to spend two days changing Max Mosely’s swastika-embroidered colostomy bag.

C’mon. Verstappen could have, and should have, known goddamn well that he was taking a line that was going to push Ocon into an untenable position.

Take a look at the angle of Verstappen’s wheels here. Note that he’s aiming well inside of the apex. He’s trying to block, not merely trying to defend the racing line.

It would look better in the root-beer brown of Steve McQueen’s Lusso:

My guess: Half of this design language is intended to create stampings that are difficult for Chinese automakers to mimic. They want it to be obvious which cars are authentic, expensive BMWs and which are copycats.

She brings such a refreshing honesty and clarity to policy debate. She’s smart and authentic, and she has a strong moral compass.

Yeah, this. The prior version was a *pretty* car. This ... looks like Fiat 124 with a body kit designed by the Civic Type R team.

The Chevy Avalanche / Escalade EXT was still selling 20k/year unit sales when GM discontinued it. It shared a platform with the Suburban, so I’m surprised that they couldn’t justify the business case at that sales level.

Already you have better ideas than Johann de Nysschen. I nominate you for CEO of Cadillac.

Jesus that’s horrible. Can you disconnect the door-open switch as a separate circuit, or is it baked into some multi-channel CANBUS sensor gizmo?

I’m not sure enough of these are transacting to even establish a market price. But I fully believe that they’ll catch up and maybe even surpass the E30 M3. So...if this one had less than 70k miles, $50k seems achievable. As it sits with >100k miles... Hmm.

So it’s basically an Italian Nissan Versa.

YouTube confirms this use case for the Speedtail (and also, it seems, the Aventador and every Ferrari made).

I think you can assume they test for the maximum temperature of the valet stand at the Burj Dubai, and the minimum temperature of the curbside pickup at Harrod’s in London. They know who their customers are.

OK, that’s fantastic.

I’m resisting the urge to see if anyone has made that. I would very much like to install that in my Tony Montana-grade Porsche 928.