Yes, and the time trial is the shortest stage of a three week race. It's hardly practical to make a "one-off" support car just for that day. It does make for pretty photos in press releases, though.

Looks pretty, but I think it's impractical. Usually, teams would prefer a 4-door car so that a crew member (coach, medic, mechanic, whatever) can lean out of the back window and assist the rider during the race. That's less practical with a 2-door jaaaaag coupe.

Cab looks like a Volvo FH12, although it's hard to be sure from the video. #trucklopnik

Crack pipe. You can get Spartans - and more recent, upgraded family members - much more cheaply from MOD sales. You can even get a Spartanamino:

Coincidentally: Right now I'm sitting in the former Alvis factory. It's a small world.

Lots of governments have had high tariffs. South Korea is very much an exception, in that this strategy eventually built some world-class carmakers, after much pain for consumers. A hundred other countries have felt the same pain without the same gain.

Just look at the long-term punitive taxes on car imports into…

This isn't abandonment, it's reuse; squatters have moved in.

Ford Cargo. #trucklopnik

It looks a bit more like the Zetros now. Wonder how they'll manage that brand in future.

A plane is usually a valuable asset which is hard to replace. Relatively slight damage will ground an aircraft, so if you want to cause disruption, shooting at an aircraft is much more effective than shooting at a building.

Although maybe they hadn't intended to attack *that* plane (a 727 isn't so precious, it's…

Daniel Craig was really the first English actor to play Bond: Connery was Scottish, Dalton was Welsh, Brosnan was Irish, Lazenby was Australian, and Moore wasn't an actor.

Haven't seen the six-door, but the four-door is pretty popular in other developing countries. If you want to haul a family and some big luggage on poor roads without a lot of money, and if you don't trust used cars in a country where everybody else wants to haul lots of stuff on poor roads without spending a lot on…

One day at Bentley HQ:
"We need some kind of racing Continental to keep the brand fresh and sporty"
"How on earth can you race a Bentley Continental? Autocross? Ahahaha"
"Um, Rally? Can we make a Bentley Continental rally-car?"
"Not a chance. It's too heavy for any race. Where can we get away with making a silhouette…

Does sitting backwards on a train cause motion sickness? I've never noticed a problem. Maybe people just prefer a forward-facing view.

Not every asset serves on the front of the front line at lightning speed; and pretending that it does can ruin procurement.

And not everything the USMC do is an invasion.

Needs more 4x4.

It's a small van. In Mercedes' range, it fits below the Sprinter. Roof is low enough to fit under carpark barriers.

Building an all-aluminum 3-Series fighter is one thing, but in order to succeed in the long run, Jaguar Land Rover also needed to invest in their own engine technology as opposed to using a lot of worked-over Ford engines.

Sahara.

Eight were made. Only seven appear in this publicity photo. 1980s Land Rovers are renowned for being the fastest rusters in the world. Conclusion: One of the eight turned into a sad little pile of iron oxide before it even reached the product demo.