To me it feels like a great fit as well. There’s a bit of a art deco quality to the AMG vision.

That said. The most popular racing series in the world is quite team centric. There are plenty of people that just cheer for Williams, Ferrari etc. and the drivers come and go.

That would leave it essentially to handful of Western countries. I mean I agree with you, but it simply wont happen.

Their history goes long back. Daimler owned near 10% of Tesla till 2014 of years ago and Musk credits them for saving the company on the initial investment. In 2016 Daimler severed their ties to Tesla as a supplier. Tesla used to supply some of Daimlers battery packs.

If anything I feel Tesla gets away with WAY more than any other manufacturer. This isn’t any different than the shit BMW, GM etc get. They just usually have to provide actually finished product on launch.

Tesla could have at least made the interior to look like the price of the car. Volvo makes Scandinavian understated interiors on their cars, but they still look like something.

What? They read Pledge of Allegiance everyday in school? Looking from outside that sounds scary as hell. I would never let my children be part of something similar in my home country.

Kimi was ahead of Verstappen before the hit and had no way to go outside of emergency brakes. Yielding a spot at that point would have been craziness for him. But then same really goes to Verstappen that was sandwiched.

It’s not much, but then that isn’t too surprising. Much of the baseline R&D work in media gets twisted like it’s Google leading they way. It’s the likes of Bosch, Nokia and Ericsson that are spending largest sums of cash on the essentials - like networks in which those autonomous cars will actually run in and the…

Have you ever tried badminton? Not the kind where you just stand in one spot and try to hit the shuttlecock. I did organised sports 7 days a week till I was 21 and I was soaked in sweat in 30 minutes like playing soccer or tennis rarely got me in that time.

This looks like so much fun! Thanks for the great write-up.

You are in jalopnik and you have never heard of autobahn highway network?

I thought the general feeling on i8 was that it looks great? Imo it looks amazing. I don’t mind i3, but I can totally see why some would not like it.

Maybe this is especially a California or US thing concerning G-wagen? That AMG type G-wagen stuff is quite rare here in the Nordics. I see much more of beaten up G-wagens than I see blinged out Gs.

That looks horrific. Roads were filled with v70 XC back in the day here in the Nordics and I can’t remember ever seeing that. Most were were silver/black or dark blue/black.

Yep. That has been the most important graph in F1 for couple of decades now. Over at reddit/r/formula1/ there was some talk early this season and last season that it might be FOM not wanting to show just how many of the teams/drivers are +1 lap behind.

Chrysler being up market wont work. That brand was totally destroyed in Europe and much of Asia before Fiat bought them with the bottom of the barrel Daewoo stuff.

I don’t mind Porsche Design stuff at all look wise. I’ve had some of their shoes and the quality has been top notch. Though, their prices have jumped quite a bit in the past 6 years.

Actual price pool was 24 million. Last year was slightly over 20 million.

Porsche is way ahead of you there with their Porsche Design stuff. They sell sunglasses from 250€ to 5000€ already.