Meanwhile, at the WEC race over in Silverstoneshire, my favourite vehicle at the track was this old bus which the Joest Audi LMP1 team still use. It’s quite a contrast to the newness of everything else in the paddock:

This car was left lying around at Silverstone over the weekend:

Who mentioned privacy? It’s possible to identify a car without accessing it’s VIN or the owner’s details.

I don’t know about the US, but it’s possible in many other advanced countries. I guess it helps if there is a centralized national database.

Licence Plate Recognition. Camera reads the plate, refers to DMV database, identifies car. Bingo bango bongo.

I knew that they were carted around like a five year old on a depressed Shetland pony at the county fair.

Fastest official drift in a drift-optimised car, maybe. However, Andy Green did drift Thrust SSC at about 700mph...

Sport+ comes alive if you push the lever into Sport and forward, while pulling the downshift paddle twice.

I was just watching one! Here’s L’argus’s review of the “E-mary” presented by popular French journaliste Travisse Eau-Kulsi:

Thanks! I particularly appreciate that you’ve updated me as to it’s production and very much non-vapourware status with a computer rendering ;)

If it’s a Bolloré-based car, it must be a production version of the funky nouvelle Mehari concept:

He’s the one drifting the Ferrari TdF...

Ah, but nobody has done 60mph on the smaller wall. The TV researchers tried to find the fastest existing lap of the current small wall, and the best they could find was calculated at 42mph. There wasn’t a previous official record to beat, so Guiness Book of Records took the small wall speeds into account together with…

That “someone” being a professor of Physics at Cambridge University. I’m fairly certain he got it right...

I was hoping to see this. I had one when I was a wee lad of... er... 26... It proved most useful in Schipol airport when I was late checking in to my flight home and had to scoot all the way out to the far end of one of the terminal’s spokes where Easyjet were marooned. The airport security guards didn’t try to stop…

So, aside from the clearly badge-engineered cars (for specific markets), tell me again how the Versa, Leaf, Juke, Sentra, Altima, Maxima, Murano, Rogue, Pathfinder are all unapologetically Renault-designed? Lots of pictures of unrelated cars does not a good argument make.

I don’t always disagree with people on the internet, but you’re wrong.

I’m surprised they didn’t go for “Fiat Uno Due Quattro Abarth Piccolo Sportivo Over-Elaborazione nomenclaturi”. It just seems lazy otherwise...

My biggest complaint is the rotary knob used as a shifter, which has a shape, look, and location exactly where everything in my brain says “volume control,” and I grabbed it more than once looking to raise or lower the volume, instead putting myself in N instead of D.