@dankicksass: What Golf platform? This is based on the pre-VW acquisition Skoda Favorit. Full Eastern Bloc goodness.

Does this mean the Ssangyong Rodius/Stavic gets to be an MG now?

@desinole: Do you have any idea how much Tetley instant powdered tea is drank around the world? A lot.

Dude, if it was raining on a steep hill, with a minivan behind you and cars to either side and you swerved, you were bloody helling lucky, no matter how good you really are.

What was that? That was... uhm... a non-Euclidian universe, I guess. I'm pretty sure Cthulhu's in there somewhere.

So, Renault gets a wrist slap, and McLaren gets a bitch slap.

Mini-mini-SUV from BMW? DO NOT WANT!

@Spence: That's ridiculous. So you're saying that, if you're going to spend lots of money on a vehicle, there's no point in saving fuel?

@nirad: Wasn't the Q5 always supposed to be an "A3 Allroad"? If so, than it was always transverse. Think Golf platform here.

A 45.3% increase in Europe probably means they sold two more cars than last year.

"Live. Local. Late breaking"

I feel underwhelmed.

I'm hoping Fiat does an Abarth-themed concept car for this.

This one? Not sport. Unless they start doing six-lane drag racing. Then not only does it become an actual sport, it becomes even more mind-boggling and exciting.

They should sell the 3.0 V6 (it's a Diesel) in the American market too.

WTF? srsly?

This is evil, man. Just pure evil.

@wookie1901: "Single file parades?" Are you sure you watched any F1 race this season.

NASCAR is a sport. Yes, really. I just could go on and on about why some regulations are stupid. But getting back on topic, and I said in the drifting post, most of the people that watch it don't care if it is.

Do you want to know where the drift-hate comes from, Jonny? I'll tell you. It comes from the same place as drag-hate, NASCAR-hate and rally-hate. But we don't really hate these things. We hate the "civilians" who like them. Those uneducated louts who like the "shiny" aspects of these specific forms of hoonage and…