Yes. Doesn't everybody hoon rental cars?

But try not to stick the sump of a Ford Fiesta on a boulder, 2 hours walk from the nearest telephone, in a rhino reserve. Oops. That was a long day...

* Flimsy suspension
* Three-stud wheels
* Minimal power
* Glacially slow gear-changes
* More noise & vibration than riding a bucket of rocks down a mountainside
* Very little room for spare parts
Awesome rally car.

Citroën SM rally breadvan.

Mas du Clos is a really interesting circuit. It's a shame that everybody forgets about it. The curves, the gradients, the apexes: The circuit as a whole demands a real understanding of your car - and of your own abilities.

Meanwhile, I drive past Silverstone most days, which is a hundred times more famous, but it's as…

That's a much larger ship; 125m long, 25m beam, much larger internal space. So, I really doubt it's a simple replacement for Marjata, which works in a field subject to ever-increasing automation and remote analysis (a DL380 needs much less space than a dozen analysts).

Please step off the euphemism treadmill.

In English, if we dislike a concept, then the word for the concept is seen as negative, and well-intentioned lackwits insist that the word must be avoided, so we invent a new euphemism for the concept, and then the well-intentioned lackwits say that's a bad word, and so on.…

Certainly some offences are more serious than others, but the UK doesn't have such a big distinction between "felony" and non-felony in day-to-day life. There's the arrestable/indictable thing, and some offences may qualify for prison time on some sliding scale, most might involve a fine &c but generally there's a…

Nice price. Because one Citroen SM isn't enough of a challenge!

Plus, with four of them, you overcome the reliability problem. Even after extensive restoration, you can never be sure whether or not the car will be working when you need it, which undermines the value as a daily driver. But if you restore four of them,…

How can you exclude Afriqiyah? I flew with them a while ago, from Ouagadougou - Tripoli - London. I don't know how they stayed in business. The Libyan civil war seems to have destroyed some of their fleet, but hey, Afriqiyah's ability to take ticket revenue from customers seems to have been mostly disconnected from…

Just another day on Aruba! Good stuff.

Nice work. It's very hard for a platform like Kinja to tackle serious geopolitics - and seeing it through a military prism is always going to be a distortion - but this is a really good piece.

That's not a van, that's a lifestyle.

In the UK, we don't really have the distinction between "felonies" versus whatever it is that isn't a felony.

However, if you commit an offence that messes with the police, the police will take it seriously.

A Mercedes W220 built out of the same parts, in similar condition, will cost well under $20k. And you're not paying an extra $55k for a couple of inches more rear legroom. That Maybach isn't cheap; you're paying for the badge.

A couple of months ago, I sold a Mercedes CL for a tiny tiny fraction of that price. CLs had…

Beautiful. I came here to post the same thing.

[SMART INTENSIFIES]

It's not cost-effective to monitor everything. (Unless you have a very unusual and high-impact job). Capturing voice and data is relatively cheap and easy these days, but hiring a human to trawl through it all looking for interesting stuff is difficult and expensive.

Large organisations like to have the capability, but…

Landaulette. The world needs more landaulette.

It reduces congestion and increases capacity.

If you merge two traffic streams at one point, then increasing volumes of merging traffic eventually slow that point down and it becomes a traffic jam. If you split the merging traffic in half, and let the two halves merge into the main road a few hundred metres apart, that…