I suppose Mulsanne customers don’t want people to think they only have a Flying Spur.

I really don’t think this new grille improves upon the previous one on any level. I actually quite like the current Bentley grille, it’s not too big and looks both traditional and sporty, which really suits Bentley. This one is much too Rolls-Royce wannabe for my taste.

I forcefully disagree. I couldn’t think of a recent car with less busy line than modern Rolls-Royces.

Unfortunately the Mégane GT doesn’t pack 265 horses but 205. Sorry, America.

This may just be the pictures, the new Mégane is not a high car at all.

I don’t know the figures for the new Mégane, but even today wagons have more cargo space than their sedan/hatch counterparts. Frankly I don’t think it’s the little space lost by having a sloping roof line that really matters - after all you don’t load your car by sticking your back to the roof and working your way…

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK

Maserati are kind of like Alfa, if they weren’t kind of shit they wouldn’t be as good.

Were the F and TF that bad? I know the MG B has an awful reputation but the F/TF always looked like very modern cars to me.

Don’t think of it as trying to be a new A110, think of it as being a different car that happens to look like it. It probably won’t be called A110, by the way. In a way, doing a car like this 50 years after the first is kind of trying to ret-con history. “What would our cars look like today if we had actually been…

Here’s one you forgot to mention : MG F/TF. Did you get it in America?

155hp in race trim, I’m assuming. Race engines aren’t meant to last years.

Definitely. I think we can expect the Alpine to be cheaper too, because it won’t have a carbon tub and Renault probably won’t have Alfa’s borderline pretentious pricing.

Lotus doesn’t have a competitor to the Caterham 160, that’s the problem.

Why though? The A110 was raced, okay. By the time the A310 was Alpine’s best-selling model, they were racing endurance prototypes that bore little relation to the road cars. Did that make the A310 less of an Alpine? The GTA and A610 were never raced at all in an official capacity. Are they not Alpines? “Alpine”…

Do you mean styling-wise? So far they seem to be taking the retro rather than futuristic route with this Alpine revival. After this first Alpine maybe we’ll see a hardcore version, a convertible, an SUV, and maybe a bigger, more GT-like 2+2 coupé (an Evora of sorts, if you will)...

That man is doing wonder at the head of Lexus. It’s really making Infiniti look confused and backwards by comparison.

I don’t know what that particular felt is like, but I’m actually all for alternative materials in car interiors. My dream is that someone came up with some sort of strong, durable, comfortable and good-looking fabric that could be used to replace leather in stuff like small sports cars. Maybe something that looked…

Well that’s a shame, I love me some colour. So many cars, especially outside of luxury and premium brands, are impossible to get with anything besides black/dark grey/light grey. At best, you get an off-white or if you’re very lucky brown or tan leather.

God dammit, that interior. THAT INTERIOR!!! Holy shit, I almost can’t believe this is in a production car. When was the last time a mainstream carmaker went that crazy with colours and materials? Oh and the body is so pretty too, and the rear lights, the way the back window blends into the rear deck... I am so in…