It’s a conspiracy by Mac’s Antique Auto Parts, they are going round breaking you headlights so you have to buy new ones and they can artificially increase their stock value, leading to a corporate buy-out and a bucketload of cash for current shareholders to spend on their heritage tractor collections.

I have the human normal amount of arms, why on earth would I buy an auto?

That was the later engines, they upgraded the 1.8 in 2000.

Vauxhall Astra Mk4 1.8 Sport, mine was older than this one (1998), but that rear wing was fantastic in the snow, completely obscured all useful rear vision if you couldn’t be bothered to clear it. 115 bhp, but good for 8.5 secs 0-60 although that meant 70 on the motorway was 3500 revs in 5th gear. The handling was…

I’m not so sure about that, I was under the impression the 3D printing was the way forwards for prototyping and low volume parts (like say, bits a hypercar you’ll only make 3 of), but worked out to be slow and expensive for anything you need a shitton of (like say, bits for a white-goods commutermobile you cancel in 3…

The high rake was kind of Adrian Newey’s thing, so it doesn’t surprise me that the car would follow the Red Bull in other aspects

I worked for a contract filler, but it was the European operation so no problems with skunks, just people mixing up stock because they couldn’t tell the difference between Benelux and Scandinavia.

Having been invovled in the manufacture, I could have told you it is 2/3 white spirit (mineral oil), 1/3 brown goop that they won’t tell you what they make it from, with carbon dioxide as a propellant. The contents of the brown goop don’t surprise me at all.

With that selection of cars I would have expected a drag strip on the premises.

I always smile to myself when Google tells me my commute home will be 17 minutes, it has yet to work out that I’ll be waiting 5 minutes for the railway crossing if the trains are running on time.

If this is supposed to be a ride-share, what’s up with those people?  They are making eye-contact, seem to be enjoying each-other’s company and no-one is staring at a phone.  Nice try, but it’s obviously just a mock-up.

My thought exactly.  I’m not a car designer, so forgive me for being wrong about the wheels having to be on the very bottom of the car.

My predictions were:

I recall seeing somewhere that someone had cross and ekranoplan with a hovercraft to get around the problems in getting up to speed.  I don’t remember if it was successful but it sounds like a great deal of fun.

They need massive power to get them up to speed, but once they are going you can turn most of those off.

Sounds like a UK vehicle, they were sold here, but no-one wanted to buy them.

How long before we see the first article on how people are trolling them?

Asking for a friend, but what would they be like with lipstick?

Are we still talking about cars?

In a complete coincidence, I parked next to one of these today.  It looked great and I was slightly jealous.