My point is that it can’t but an ugly race car since it’s not even a race car yet.

Oh yeah it does sound quite fun.

Not really, it’ll be a spec series. It’ll be a software contest only.

It’s not even finished, damn.

GM and Chrysler had too many brands but killing the redundant ones doesn’t mean they should ultimately only have one. There wasn’t any space for Mercury between ever-better-equipped Fords and ever-more-mundane Lincolns, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t space above Ford for a more premium offering. Of course that…

I don’t think that is “the point” of luxury. It may be the point of some luxury items or, to put it another way, the end to which some people put the luxury items they buy, but there is a kind of luxury that is quiet, tasteful and unpretentious. I don’t know if there still is a luxury car that fits that bill, though.…

I don’t know... For example in America you only just got the A-Class (well, the CLA and GLA to be precise but it’s all the same). In Europe we’ve had the horrifyingly mundane and boring first- and second-gen A-Class as well as the equally dull B-Class for ages. We’ve also had countless cheap white panel vans adorned…

First gear: I don’t think the problem is that “luxury” cars only have branding to differentiate themselves nowadays. It’s normal for features to trickle downmarket until today’s entry-level models are better equipped than yesterday’s luxury car. Feature-wise, modern Lincolns, Cadillacs or Acuras are still (slightly)…

It’s what you do when you’re a successful British sportscar company but you don’t have FIAT or VW money, apparently. See also: Aston Martin up until last year.

Oh, so apparently it’s now the law that every concept car HAS to be called “Vision”. Come on people, have some imagination.

They still made the Avantime after the Espace, that was a cool car.

It’s still so goddamn pretty.

I wonder if Prodrive would agree to work their magic on left-hand-drive examples like they did on the Brera S for the UK market.

Hey, it’s a simple, honest car. It’s very likable.

I like Touring’s recent efforts so much. If I were filthy rich I wouldn’t even think about buying any sort of brand-new car. I would be on the first flight to Milan and I would beg Touring for something, anything. I would very much like to see what they could do with a 4C for example.

Is getting an all-new hand-beaten superleggera aluminium body from Touring, of all people, such a bad way to die?

The guys who conceived the Bentayga’s electricals have a very good chance of being named Wolfgang rather than Nigel.

If you leave safety measures up to the drivers they’ll ignore all those that can impact performance. In the 1969 24h of Le Mans Jacky Ickx refused to run for the Le Mans start and strolled to his car, taking the time to fasten his seatbelt properly. On the first lap privateer John Woolfe died because he had not…

I think Citroën’s way of doing it works better than the Cherokee, though.

French cars tend not to. Large coffee on the go is not a very widespread thing here (we prefer to have a quick espresso sitting down) and if we bring something to drink in our cars it’s a bottle of water that we keep in the doors.