I can verify that getting in and out of my 95 corvette sucks, too. But the extra 15% extra effort to sit in the middle would so be worth it. Maybe I’m just a crazy Jalopnik biased consumer, but still...

I think both of them together is perfect. Roborace allows fine control of tyre and road surface management at the limit, but in a relatively stable environment, Rally provides rapidly changing conditions and sudden obstacles/changes of direction stuff.

“our hybrid system is going to be tremendous”

“...our heat shields are going to do so much winning...”

It’s going to be interesting to see how they tell the computer to account for being airborne.

sounds like they had Trump write that press release

Considering what the F1's are selling for now, you really don’t need any information. McClaren calls you up and says do you want one of these 106 and you say yes please.

“luxurious”

with company saying in the press release the car will be “the most exquisitely crafted and luxurious road-going McLaren to date.”

If you can afford that car, you have two 19 yr old mistresses.

For when you need to take both your wife and your 19-year old mistress.

On a hot day its not uncommon to see a nasty brown haze over Central London which is probably every bit as deadly as the yellow fogs of the past, but doesn’t get nearly as much attention from the government

“People piled more coal on their fires”

Peasoupers had been rolling through London since the 17th Century, but the post-War ones were the worst because the British government had prioritised the export of high quality coal to help rebuild the British economy which had been wrecked by the War. All that was left was low-quality, damp, high-sulfur coal which…

My theory involved little cat’s feet.

That’s the most depressingly accurate thing I’ve heard in at least a week.

America is going to be great again. The Great Smog, the Great Depression, the Great War... They’re all coming back. It’ll be great.

If there’s one silver lining to the Great Smog, it’s that it kickstarted an environmental movement that led to the passage of some of the first clean air laws.