Is this an official BMW press photograph?

It is more the annoyance than actual engine harm. My car sits at around 3k rpm at 105-110mph (it’s a diesel) and I still it could with a slightly taller 6th (or an extra gear).

Around 2500rpm. My car does 2340rpm at that speed, and I personally find it a tad short geared.

That fire thing on italian supercars... I am wondering could it be because their owners drive them like bellends? You know the thing, unnecessarily revving the engine, hard accelerations in start-stop traffic and the likes.

As already said, no spare is normal these days particularly on a car the size of the Up.

Can we have it in Europe?

Many are, especially when they became little more than a Fiat division.

Why only the rally Lancias get love? Lancia is so much more than that.

The original supercahrged Cooper Ss weren’t exactly frugal. We had one back in the day and doing 10-12l/100km was normal (IIRC that amounts to about 23mpg US).

It is not economics it’s just that they don’t fit on our roads are parking spaces.

Neither can I afford any of those, but I could probably pony up to an Octavia RS or something...

Move to Europe! We have hot hatches, sport saloons and other generally slow but rather obscure and expensive cars!

That is because Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 with his car and then Brabham won the championship in 1967 again but this time with Denny Hulme at the wheel.

Motorsport is for the most part a machine sport not a man sport, F1 being (theoretically) the pinnacle.

Supercharged Mini Cooper S in BRG, white roof and wheels and a wooden dashboard.

This car is exactly the same as the R/T Challenger we were discussing a couple of days ago; they may be outdated, thrashed by the competition and even maybe downright bad but God aren’t they so magnificent.

I want an R/T 392. Even though it would cost a small fortune to run in Europe and wouldn’t fit anywhere...

Here we can only have the Mustang so the choice is easy, but of the three the Challenger is the one that has always appealed me the most, despite possibly being the worst.

Carrera T is a silly name and paying more to get less annoys me.

In the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s it was usual from F1 drivers to drive in other series such as sportscar racing or touring cars. Back when motorsport was just that a sport. Now it is just a business.