Only in America. Everywhere else SUVs don’t get a bullshit free pass to shitty build and safety standards.

It is. Australia pretty much wrote the book on camera surveillance of motorists (speed cameras are a Dutch invention but it was the Aussies who really embraced them first). Probably because Australian drivers are terrible and the roads are worse.

I wonder if there’s a variable if the first born is a boy or a girl? I can see a second boy getting less attention, but a second child, first boy, not so much.

Wow, that’s a giant bucket of horseshit on every possible level. Thanks for sharing.

I don’t think you need to make explosives though and I agree that’s a high barrier. The problem is simply that as the price of drones falls and their capability goes up, much simpler attacks become possible, and not just for terrorists.

Yawn. Driving a manual may be a badge of honour in the US, we just call it normal. The idea that you’re some kind of l33t driver because you choose to drive stick is bollocks. The world’s moved on. Get over it.

The difference is that flying an RC plane takes a degree of skill, flying a drone brings that skill level right down, and adds other useful tools like cameras.

The V90 was top of my shopping list, until about two weeks ago.

Great article. Interestingly, Volvo have definitely reverted back to the safety angle for the XC60 launch, at least in Europe. This is the current campaign:

Is it even possible to walk three miles in America? First time I ever visited I could rarely find any continuous sidewalks and I got a lot of funny looks for even trying to go for a walk.

That’s a short paragraph to describe a long and sordid procurement process. If they’d ordered the QE class to be built with cats and traps and the F-35C in the first place it would have been a lot cheaper, but it wouldn’t have helped the F-35B unit costs at all. But of course the murky world where the contractor for…

No, I think Vettel should have a race penalty at least. I wasn’t bothered about claims by any ex-drivers because as soon as you could see the footage with the race telemetry it was obvious Vettel was talking shite, but of course its Ferrari, the most sporting team in history, so of course they can’t be wrong.

Who got penalised? So who gives a shit what an ex-F1 driver says on NBC? The lead driver controls the pace, end of story.

No brake check, revs didn’t drop. And even if he had it doesn’t excuse what happened next.

So, lesson for homologation next year, strategic hammer holes.

Plenty of people have tried to set up gaming PC shops like this in the UK over the years; sadly they all fail. I used to use one in Clapham called Glow Lounge that would build you a PC while you had coffee, it was great, much nicer experience than buying online (and I say this as someone who’s been running e-commerce…

Why is the T-45 having hypoxia issues now? Its been in service for the thick end of thirty years at this point. What’s changed?

One reason is to move to four valve per cylinder; this was next to impossible with air cooled engines (I think the 959 was air cooled but they water cooled the cylinder heads). Four valves makes it a lot easier to control fuel flow which helps emissions.

Denmark has been anti-car for quite some time now; not just anti-combustion-engine, but anti-private-ownership-of-cars full stop (and not just for environmental reasons). The EV tax break has had the unintended consequence of not just switching people to EVs, but actually growing the car population, so they’re…

How much of the (rather nice) interior will trickle into mainstream models? Because god knows the current interiors really put me off BMWs.