He’s not the best in survival situations...

1st Gear; only Trump could make car manufacturers look like the good guys.

Australia is part of Oceania so no, its not a whole continent (New Zealand is partly on the same plate, New Guinea, bits of Indonesia etc). I’m having flashbacks because this exact same argument came up in school (eek) 40 years ago, with a priest of all people. Australians themselves tend to describe the place as “the…

Australia is the world's biggest island, by a distance (2.97 million square miles).

I adored this when it came out (I was a teenager and got so into the aerodynamics of F1 I ended up in aerospace design); shame it didn’t work

“Hence why we don’t see any six wheeled cars on the grid today”

EU Euro 5 and 6 emissions regs is the obvious answer. By framing the regs almost entirely in the pursuit of CO2 reduction, they stimulated the diesel market in Europe to a ridiculous extent, and in particular, led to the proliferation of small high-compression diesels, which not only don’t actually work too well, are…

The challenge is the same one most manufacturers face, but with a twist; for most companies, the “volume model” is now an SUV (or three), look at everyone from Peugeot to Porsche for examples. So Jag decides to do SUVs but everytime you walk into a JLR dealership you have the choice of the pedigree, looks and…

All the revenue is on the LR side of the house; Jaguar is the problem, not Land Rover.The problem is JLR needs Jaguar to make volume and its not. 

Look at it from a different angle; how many new manufacturers have come along in the last three years with ICE vehicles as the centre of their business plan? Pretty much zero, globally.

Counterpoint; you’re a proper misery guts. 

Pretty much this, apart from anything else they have to finish the movie with Bond back as 007 because that’s the movie trademark; not “007", not even “James Bond”, its “James Bond 007" (the parent company owns 007 and James Bond, but weirdly not for movies, just things like perfume, go figure). So you’re not getting…

Maybe if France and the European Union wants to cut air travel volume they might think twice about approving the 58 planned new airports and 28 runway extensions currently under development across Europe? (There are actually 423 new airports and 121 runway extensions planned globally). Start there instead of pissing…

You should visit Cambodia. Imported cars from RHD Thailand are everywhere, and coupled with a “flexible” view about which side of the road to use, it makes for the most sphincter-clenching driving I’ve ever experienced. 

BMW isn’t a niche manufacturer anymore, and while the Model S and X have taken premium BMW sales they haven’t done it across most of BMW’s markets (BMW is actually more exposed to diesel overcapacity than ev undercapacity, especially in Europe). Also you have look at the context of Model 3 sales v. 3-series (two…

I’m sorry, failing to capitalise on EVs, which still have tiny market share in absolute terms, is not BMW’s problem. The real issue is they look like shit, inside and out. I’d consider myself exactly the kind of driving-focused person who’d be in BMW’s DNA (and indeed I’ve owned BMWs in the past) and yet there’s not a…

Yes it’s PR. She’s done it several times; recently on The Graham Norton Show in the UK, and I saw her do it again in some cooking thing with John Favreau where she claimed she didn’t even know she was in Spider-Man:Homecoming. Not buying it. 

Saw one yesterday and literally thought the same thing; "well they made that bland as fuck".

There was a good reason why the American crocodiles didn’t arrive in time; the US Army wouldn’t use the Churchills on offer and insisted on converting Shermans instead (they also flat out refused the other Funnies). Now there are good training and logistical reasons for not using Churchills, but unfortunately the less…

Amsterdam Schiphol has already gone live with this; went through yesterday and I think it's very new as most of the other passengers seemed as surprised as I was.