Speaking of which...still my favourite Kimi quote/Brundle grid walk:

Very level-headed girl, who probably spared a lot of other people distress by preventing there from being any sort of scene on the plane. That must have taken a fair bit of guts.

Again, as a '80s/'90s kid I was part of the church of Countach...And I probably would have had the F40 too, if I didn't have a die-cast model instead...good times. I moved a lot and a lot of this kept going into storage, so I probably still have both somewhere...

Best of luck to him, I hope he can bring him back.

They're going to have to come up with a better final name than FKERS though, I think...unless they want the Virginia DMV all over them...

I remember looking at the London version of this before and wondering what they were doing with their cameras out at Elephant and Castle and what on earth they were taking pictures of!

I like the spoon in the bottom right of the video, at 0:15, that suddenly decides it doesn't want to be 'magnetised' to his armpit any more and falls off... :)

Well, yeah, I think everyone would ideally choose that, but if these different sets of pilots (assuming the flight crew on my plane, and this one weren't the same!) didn't consider that an attainable option and are providing what the consider a reasonable solution to what they see as a problem, then I'd take a pilot…

Ok, to be honest I've seen this in another very well known British based Airline, back when you were allowed in the cockpit. I thought it was funny at the time, as you could see the sun guards supplied by the airline were about the size of a small table place mat and if you're flying into the sun for hours on end it…

If that was the case, which does sound feasible, if it was me I so wouldn't be comfortable driving around in a vehicle with that much feeling of separation between me and what's going on outside. But then my old volvo's still from the 'glasshouse' roof and window era!

With the exception of that most excellent phrase, that was pretty much all Dutch all of the time!....(and I'm guessing the cake at the end might have been a kruimelvlaai or suchlike...)

I get that they might not have seen them until they popped out from behind the campervan, but there seems to be a fair delay between hitting them and realising and stopping, especially for a someone being hit by the front left of a left hand drive vehicle.

My favourite quote is the understated remark from the end of the BBC's coverage of it:

I thought for a moment it was something like in this article about ice road driving, where you aren't allowed to wear a seat belt in case things start going pear-shaped very quickly and you have to jump clear...Although I'm not sure if anyone else on the road would then appreciate the driverless towing fiasco you…

Total respect for having that special missing part of the imagination that lets race drivers get out of an upside-down cockpit like that and then back into another one, I hope she goes far.

Kudos to him for the effort and his enterprising spirit...But at the same time if he'd been my upstairs neighbour I think I might have had to be a Rapture believer to keep my appreciation going...

That's fantastic, and with the slats instead of the lights looks a lot less apologetic than production model was. And it makes you wonder if Modena, with all its ingrained auto-history, is the only city where pre-production brake-testing prototypes are seemingly road legal!? :)

If you're on the other side of the pond, the Royal Mint website also list the weights of each coin (and also, interestingly, how low the legal tender amounts are for some coins...2p coins are only legal tender up to 20p?!)

@strich If you've got a half decent camera set it up on a tripod as a document copier. Point it at the ground or the table or whatever, line the Polaroid up as required, maybe even put down tape or something that lets you put each picture in the same place and then snap away, replace the picture and repeat. If you can…

Yeah, you don't want that coming at you out of the New Mexico night...