It’s not actually the ambulance industry’s first rollover test, is it?

If you’re on the move, you can’t realistically bring a tool for everything.

Routes like the trans-siberian are fun. I’d recommend it to anyone.

“Saving” spots just makes parking shortages worse, because now as well as the spaces occupied by cars, there are otherwise-usable spaces occupied by somebody who knows somebody who has a car that they’ll bring Really Soon Now.

Dude, all those Dinan badges are totally worth an extra 100hp.

That could be difficult, since the cars passed the tests as they were. Build better tests or stronger rules against ECU trickery next time.

Maybe, but surely most EC countries base their vehicle-pollution-taxes on the officially tested emissions when released? I haven’t heard of any provisions for tax being reassessed based on retests of a modified vehicle. These vehicles would have “passed” the tests as they were when released.

We need more offroad Smart action. I miss mine so much. (Pictured: Not mine.)

To be fair, auction revenue isn’t going to be huge, once we consider the seller’s fees, and the logistical stuff, and the low prices that many of these things sell for.

And yet if somebody English-speaking tried the same route in a road vehicle - whether a Maserati or a Citroën DS or an AMC Gremlin - we’d praise their spirit of adventure.

F1 is an ecosystem which comprises lots of different organisations; different teams, different racetracks, different broadcasters, different suppliers. Monza was, perhaps, getting a little lazy (ie. not setting the keenest prices), like some employee who thinks their skills are indespensable. Saying “We can go to a…

That looks superb. Why doesn’t the future arrive as planned?

Think that’s old? Try the 1960s Holden Hurricane.

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This is good.

Why the long face?

Why does it matter?

That sounds awesome. Also, dangerous. But dangerous in an awesome way. I’d love to do it.

Where did they get the tooling for that pickup truck?