So they should have used a petrol engine for the Paris motor show despite it being available in neither France nor the home market?

"the part you don't see is that is the diesel engine version that doesn't have spark plug wires to flood" - Well it's not offered with a petrol engine so I'm not seeing the issue here...

I'd imagine the XE would get the F-Type's V6 replacement (might get the current one but as JLR are building a brand new engine factory I would assume they'd design their own V6 instead of a Ford sourced one) rather than a straight-six.

Can someone explain to a European why it's called the 2016 Jaguar XE in the land of freedom not the 2015 Jaguar XE? It goes on sale in 2015 not 2016.

Given their sales in Europe are so small that could be just an extra 10-20 cars or so.

Gran Turismo 6 managed 60 FPS @ 1080p on the PS3 with only 256MB of RAM. This is just a developer being wrong.

Gran Turismo 5 and 6 were 60 FPS so yes you're right, racing games did just fine before at 60 FPS.

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country". I'm in Britain FFS!

That and despite the doom-mongerers the British car industry is not dead, just owned by other countries.

I'd agree. From talking to people who've been in the industry way longer than I have the management didn't know how to manage and the unions took advantage of it. Heck Longbridge produced the Rover 75, probably the best Rover ever.

British plants weren't plagued by strikes because the factory was bad but because management were appointed based on who they knew, not what they knew. Ergo the British can build cars but it appears our management can't. The modern day British car industry is testament to this: Rolls-Royce, Bentley, MINI, Honda,…

I was there at almost 5pm and can answer that. Some cars did runs up the hill in both the morning and afternoon, so you're both correct!

Had a question that was something like:

Agreed, this is just a storm in a teacup.

The truly intrepid of you may scream out for a more modern Type 3 Transporter, and you all have a point. When you dream of a stylish little bungalow, though, there's no better vehicular equivalent than a classic Type 2 Microbus.

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Automotive Engineer here, I'd agree with you, though like you mentioned the bsfc is probably a better measure for engine efficiency. Obviously those figures tell you nothing about an engine's torque spread though...

A Benefit of doing an Automotive Engineering degree is that you end up with friends that work at these kind of places :)

Ah interesting, having a tour of the Williams factory in Oxfordshire this weekend, wonder if it'll be there! Functionally they may ultimately do the same thing but due to the underlying tech in Formula 1 gearboxes being based on manuals any credit from them should be given to manual gearboxes not torque converters…

As an Automotive Engineer I have to say there's a difference between the automated manuals in Formula 1 cars (brilliant article about their introduction in the current issue of "Racecar Engineer" by the way) and "traditional automatics". The underlying technology for Formula 1 gearboxes is based on manual tech not…