Your wife’s 1 Series Coupé is about 25cm shorter than the E28 5 Series.

And now that I have read the article, the part about the ride and handling is interesting.

Ok, but without the hideous US bumpers.

RS4 hot hatch? 😳 In any case there is also this other hot hatch from 1994, the RS2.

I don’t know about the laws and regulations, but as long as it can be plugged in is it considered a PHEV or does it have to have a certain EV range?

The first two paragraphs:

Actually I was thinking that, unfortunately, this makes much more sense than the Koenigsegg CC850. Even for occasional spirited driving.

Certainly, but the laws of what can be sold they do. The only question is what will be the rate of adoption. If at least the charging times are the same as refuelling mass adoption will start. If they aren’t the rate of adoption will be slower.

Smart Forfour Twinamic Turbo.

Because it looks like governments are forcing it.

If this was true the Ford F-150 wouldn’t be the best selling vehicle in the US.

Living in a block of flats in a large European city it is not really a comfortable option.

NASCAR is motorised rodeo. Which is entertaining, but not really a motorsport as such.

Michèle Mouton did win a rally championship.

They have the Kicks, which is already developed (on al older platform, so possibly more profitable) and more suited to the US than the Juke and Qashqai (i.e. bigger and cheaper).

But it does explain why there is this team structure. “Superteams” usually do not end well, as McLaren has shown at least a couple of times.

Don’t forget about moneytocracy too.

For mass adoption it has to be the same as ICE vehicles. Anything more is not good enough to guarantee mass adoption.

This is the big game changer. When an EV takes the same time to get driving range as an ICE does EVs will be adopted in droves.

Motorsport has always been about engineers / the machine. The driver is only the piece meat that operates the device between the start and the end.