Except its handling was never really praised. Not surprising when even the 4-pot FWD manual version were way over 3 000lbs.

Challenger V6: 3 800lbs
159 V6: 3 750lbs

And you would regret it. It’s as heavy as the Challenger, but with a 260hp GM-sourced V6 as the top of the range engine.

1. He’s not a terrible person until proven guilty

You mean they give a fancy name to a new feature and do PR around it?

Correct me if I’m wrong but anti lock always keeps your brakes on the edge of lock by detecting lock and removing pressure until the wheels resume spinning. Granted, this happens over the course of a few tenths of a second, but this should leave a few short skid marks.

Yup. We’ll probably read a whole lot about this in the coming days (whether we like it or not).

Speed limit monitoring is an extremely common technology. It can be GPS-based (which in my experience is pretty reliable if not faultless), or it can use active traffic signs reading (camera-based).

We’re talking about a car that does 0-80 in the 25s range.

The AP feature can’t be set more than 5mph over the local speed limit. Highly unlikely.

There were rumours of a golf-based Porsche at some point, but the project was either shelved, or really just a rumour.

You truly don’t want that kind of engine on these cars. Noisy, slow and unpleasant.

Wow. Thanks for that. I just spend 5 minutes just sliding that cursor over the rear quarter of the car.

Congrats on being that guy.

$1B / shuttle vs. $14M / shuttle. Not the same level of spending.

Hah. So they’re basically doing a Pinto here! That’s pretty appalling....

Yup, except the article isn’t well informed. The Kwid crashed there was a prototype, which, as you point out, failed pretty catastrophically.

Then again, the European press tends to keep throwing cliches at their readers.

A growth team gives you visibility on the outcomes of business plans. They make sure the company isn’t running straight ahead with a blindfold on.

EU unladen is somewhat misleading. That’s the weight with all fluids and the gas tank about 90% full.