Believe it or not, there is a Kei car version of the Jimny sold only in Japan with a smaller engine than that available in Europe. You can tell the Kei car by it’s yellow number plates:

I am not ashamed to be slower than the fastest drivers in the world with their most advanced rally cars. There is no situation where I could drive that quickly without dying, so I’m happy to watch the best do it instead.

Does it really? How interesting.... :)

Prototype:

I’m seeing a catfish. However, I might just need to clean my glasses.

Amen. The TT riders are the only people doing things that scare the MotoGP guys. If Cal Crutchlow had crashed as often on the TT course as he has on circuits, he would be dead many times over.

All the Gibbs stuff is/was cool. The Aquada, Quadski and of course the Humdinga...

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John McPhee was interviewed after the race and admitted that was actually the second time he’d done that, but it was the only one caught on the TV cameras. As soon as he regained control he realised that all the people in the pits would have had palpitations seeing him do it, which he found amusing for some reason.…

And I thought the 2004 Exelero was pretty silly. This thing is the next (illogical) step...

I use light-flashing with caution in the UK. Fortunately, the truck drivers use them a lot to indicate to the truck which has just passed them that they are clear to pull over again. Sitting behind someone and flashing your lights to get them to move out of your way is asking for trouble. By sitting in the slowest…

U.S. startup Nikola Motor Co. is scheduled to unveil a prototype in December.

You don’t need to rely on a render if you want a Forward Control Land Rover, you can just buy an old one and get someone to ICON-ise it.

I remember thinking this was the most amazing family wagon when I was about 10. It had a sunroof and a MOONROOF!!!

Thanks Jeff. You really don’t have to make excuses for being slower than a 5-time Le Mans winner. I just like seeing people like Olly demonstrating their prodigious skills in a theoretically non-competitive arena (of course, there is no such thing to a racing driver).

Thanks Kchrpm! Top work!

I’d like to know if the factory race drivers (Gavin, Garcia, Milner, Magnussen) were on hand to demonstrate what it could really do. I noticed Olly G was at the track saying nice things about the car, but I don’t know if his visit overlapped with the journalists’.

Exactly. Far better to get shouty on the radio or gesticulate than try to force the other car off the road.

A most excellent/excrement article, as usual Jason. Funnily enough, I went to the British equivalent of Comic-con to see one of the cars on display there. Being British, it was held in a Village Hall and they served tea.

I saw this race on the British Channel 4 coverage. The lead commentator criticised Hamilton’s actions and said he was showing a bad example to young fans. The other commentator was David Coulthard, who wisely kept his mouth shut, as it wasn’t that long ago that he was doing the same thing after being overtaken by…