HopkinsonF1
Steve Hopkinson
HopkinsonF1

A hundred replies about engines towing themselves, and not one Yo Dawg post? Well played, Jalops. Well played.

Easily done! I left a typo in an article a couple of months ago and ended up pissing off a group of angry nationalists. Not my best moment…

Predecessor?

I'm saying that the USA's current fighters are about as much use as the retired planes they were using 30 years ago. Because they don't work.

Or working F-35s. See what I did there?

"IS THAT GLOCK?" was my standard response to anything surprising for a few months after that race. Watching it live in a room of 20 hardcore F1 fans was spine-tingling.

One band, two words: Black fucking Sabbath.

These power units produce so much torque that people aren't even hitting the current 15,000rpm limit – most cars are short shifting at 11-12k. Raising the limit to 18,000 wouldn't change that.

The fact of the matter is, in all of the blogs and forums I've frequented on the internet, I've never found a more eloquent and well-informed group of people than petrolheads. Jalopnik and Petrolheads are both fantastic communities with a real depth of knowledge, insight and mutual respect.

Points for steering into the roll. Minus points for disappearing into a forest.

I see that literally everybody beat me to this. But I'm giving myself bonus points for using a different picture.

Spyker C8. Mmmmm.

And finally, there's a popular bicycle in the UK called 'Il Pompino'. Which is Italian for 'the blowjob'. I have no idea why.

And Toyota had to rename the MR2 in France, because it sounded a hell of a lot like merdeux – 'is shitty'.

The Honda Fit – in Norway and Sweden, at least. The car was launched as the Fitta over there in 2005. Unfortunately for Honda, Fitta is a Scandinavian slang term that roughly translates as 'cunt'.

All three cars have great fronts and terrible rears. Either they have no idea how to design a car's hindquarters, or they just get distracted half way through. "Hey, that looks cool. Throw something together at the back and let's go for a beer."

That's one pissed-off snake eye.

Honourable mention to the Renault Espace. Although it would eventually be seen as the car that started Europe's people carrier revolution in the 90s, in its first month on sale it sold exactly nine units. Nine.

The world must be a depressing place to live in for someone who takes such a narrow view of it.

Bravo on the headline, chaps. Bravo.