Daihatsu must have the largest budget for full-size concept car models of any company in the world.

is it a...

Yes.

I actually enjoyed the Rich Energy drama. Being a HAAS F1 fan, it was all I had this season as I watched them fall into the clutches of freakin’ Williams.

Meanwhile at Nissan....

Rich Energy is a model corporate citizen compared to Mission Winnow.

Their new chief sponsor is Super Replicas 

Jalopnik: “Okay fine. No more Rich Energy news.”

A strong independent team that don't need no can 

Rich Energy HAAS to be one of the worst sponsors ever.

Wrong, sir.  This was a time trial, not a race.

Well, open highway, no pedestrians, no bystanders, no cross-traffic. This isn’t exactly the same as idiots racing from streetlights in the city core, or out in the suburbs.

I didn’t have parents and my rocks were ambiguously shaped, you’re lucky.

My parents gave me car shaped rocks to play with, you’re lucky.

Yeah, where the normal version would only do one lap, this one would do three before the transmission shit the bed. 

So is there any economist working at Harley-Davidson who grasps that price affects demand?

Highly predictable. Might be the right bike, but it’s completely 180 wrong name.

In other words they have a Cadillac/Buick/Oldsmobile problem...

Jalopnik and its readers are not shocked: Report

But.. but.. flat-plane V8!!