Affordable 2-seater sports cars are dead. Over. Done. The end. Even not-very affordable but nearly-there 2-seaters are on the way out (I was only thinking about this yesterday as I looked and drooled over the”new” Jag F-Type and thought about how it’s exactly the car I would have bought 15 years ago but wouldn’t dream…

Sorry Gordon, you’re flogging a dead horse. Not only has this already been tried (most recently with the Renault Twizy, which is actually fun), this also fails the “do I look like a complete twat in this thing?” test. No self-respecting human who knows which direction their pants face will be seen dead in this.

Interesting article, but in the context of general Trump self-serving shittiness the new livery barely merits a shrug. I assume it will also get gold taps and onyx floors. Classy.

Neutral: Why aren’t you buying?

Lexus (and Toyota) are doing quite well in Europe at the moment because every other manufacturer has a showroom full of diesels nobody wants any more and there aren't enough affordable phevs or bevs to meet demand...yet. I expect this blip to end over the next 18-24 months as all the other guys roll out their hybrids.

Horses. Context. Fuck me, is this what we're reduced to now? Drawing pictures for the wilfully obtuse?

“Cruise-ship" lol autocorrect. "Cross-shop"

That literal translation can still have meaning and impact on its own.

It’s called the Purosangue, for shit’s sake. That literally translates to “pure blood.” Desperation aside, the name also carries extremely questionable Aryan connotations.

I’ve been trying to find a copy of ANZACS for years with no luck. It was excellent from memory.

Price is high compared to a Fit, but cheap compared to a BMW i3, which is probably the car Honda are expecting people to cruise-ship against in Europe (Honda would pitch itself slightly higher up the brand scale than Hyundai, Renault or Peugeot).

Brexit has everything to do with it. If there isn’t a smooth trade deal with the EU in place by December 31st 2020 the UK goes to WTO rules and customs checks and the MINI plant in Oxford becomes uneconomic (because the Just In Time supply chains with Germany and other suppliers, like Peugeot, will be compromised).…

Vinyl records don't need an entire energy infrastructure to support them and no-one's interested in legislating them out of existence. Seriously, you're comparing cars to vinyl records? 

...aren't making the rich social pariahs yet. The day is coming, and has probably arrived in some parts of the world 

The difference is your mechanical watch doesn’t make you a social pariah. As soon as the children of the super-rich refuse to get into Daddy’s gas-guzzlers because it gets them too much shit on Instagram, it’s all over for companies that don’t have EVs (or maybe Hydrogen?) on the books. We’re not there yet, but the…

Still, for my money the most worrying number in all of this is in international sales.

“We are valued as an automotive company, Tesla are valued as a tech”. Welcome to the refrain of every retailer and media company crushed under Amazon or Facebook’s bootheel in the last 20 years (and coming to a stock market near you very soon, banks).

It’s very easy to assume a racist undertone for this and assume that’s the full story, and it certainly is part of what’s going on, but the treatment of H&M is actually part of a much longer history of press treatment of the Royals, that goes back nearly a century, perhaps longer.

“BMW Claims Chinese People Want The Giant Grilles”

When we were small my Dad’s cars were various nondescript Fords and BL shitboxes (my parents were very young when they had kids and didn’t have a lot of money back then), and then around the time I went to college my Dad went through his hot Toyota phase: