Is this based on the same platform as the Q7/Bentayga?

Villeneuve’s last lap at the Spanish GP in 1981; five cars crossing the line with only 1.2 seconds between them.

It’s not $759m, its $360m-ish. Its like communism or something.

Absolutely. Life of Brian is an actual film; Grail (and The Meaning of Life) are sketches based around a connecting theme. Brilliant, but not as coherent as Life of Brian. I also think there’s enough American discomfort with the theme of Brian to drag its score down, whereas in the UK (despite the odd ban on its…

That interior is very Lexus-y, and not in a good way. While I’d like to see an improvement in BMW interiors, this isn’t it. I really hope its one off because of the JV.

The US may have pulled out of the Paris Accords but the rest of the world hasn’t; the emissions reduction numbers are going to need some serious changes to happen, and the end of ICE vehicles is key. A hard stop is already official policy in Norway and the UK. If Germany goes its game over for ICE.

That logic applies if autonomous vehicle penetration is left to the market. To take the cellphone example again; in Europe and Japan mobile takeup was stimulated by regulation and incentive (for example operators have had government incentives to promote rural cell coverage and 3G, 4G licences etc.) and that’s the…

Mobile phone penetration wasn’t driven by Moore’s Law; it was driven by oligopalic telephone companies, particularly in the US, where mobile penetration lagged behind Europe and Japan for years.

The infotainment system is a deal-breaker for me; tried it an IS and its not just bad its actively dangerous; you basically have to park the car to safely use it. The irony is I was a sat in the car with a Lexus European VP at the time; even he couldn’t work out how to use it.

I used to work in Knightsbridge, just around the corner from Harrods, and it really does go nuts with the “arabs in supercars” around late July and August. I’ve lived in Dublin for nearly a decade now, and in all that time I doubt I’ve seen as many supercars as I would routinely see in an afternoon in Knightsbridge.

Wind your neck in. Its definitely because she’s Australian when it comes to international coverage. And interestingly, until just now I had no idea that the cop who shot her was Somali; in the international coverage for the first few days after the incident the it wasn’t mentioned.

This is a car I really want to like, but every time I look at it, I think “I could have a McLaren 570 for the same price”.

Australia had almost no ground troops on D-Day. The Australians were all RAAF or Navy and were part of the British deployment. The fourth largest contributor after the US, British and Canadians were the French.

Its a lovely armchair general theory that completely ignores what actually happened, assumes the Germans simply fold (when we know from the Bulge that they still had shots in their locker). It also ignores the fact that the allies would have had to deploy troops to the low countries anyway (just like the Soviets had…

Bullshit. The argument of simpletons. None of the D-Day 1 objectives were achieved by anyone, and Caen was easily the most difficult. The bocage wasn’t going to magically disappear even if they’d taken Caen, and they walked into two panzer divisions trying. And it wasn’t Montgomery who stopped Patton’s momentum, it…

Americans think of Omaha. And yes, over 60% of the aircraft and 2/3 of the ships were British as well.

ORLY?? More British & Commonwealth troops landed on D-Day than Americans. This is exactly the kind of shit that winds Britons up when Americans talk about WW2.

Silverstone’s a shit circuit, always has been. And I say that as someone who’s been going there since 1979.

Have you seen the movie? Not a played-out character. Analysis fails.

You know what black America? This isn’t about you. Barely anyone outside the US, where Marvel movies make most of their money, has any clue who Miles Morales is. Thanks to fifty years of cartoons and five other Spider-Man movies, everyone knows who Peter Parker is. That makes more money for Marvel, which is their…