Not to mention it’s hard to build a car from your living room. If you’re a CAD guy there’s absolutely no reason for you to go into the office every day even without the thread of coronavirus.

The current crisis is different to the last crisis.

Test early, fail early, improve early.

Yay for the 4.0! I can understand why you love it.

I’d agree but those shares are reserves in a sense. Businesses get funding by selling shares of their own business; when the times are good they might buy some shares back; when they need more cash the board could decide to sell those shares again.

I have very strong feelings about the XJ. I owned a used-and-abused Cherokee in 2010 and it was the most amazing partner on epic adventures, whilst also being the most unreliable car I’ve ever owned. I would love to have another one now, and would pay a premium, if it was in nearly-new condition...

Three-lug rally Smart!

Great idea! Alas, they only sell to aid agencies and UN peacekeepers &c. It would be pretty hard to fake that...

I still miss my 70-series. She was amazing. Admittedly she drank more diesel than a train, and as an SWB the boot was so small that you couldn’t fit in an extra spare tyre, but she was indestructible and she’d go anywhere. It took me a while to get used to the twin batteries and 12/24V electrics though. I bought her…

For years I’ve been thinking about updating classic cars. We all like the look of classic cars but in reality they’re not practical daily-drivers because they have noisy old engines which die in a puff of blue smoke if you don’t fettle the tappets every 100 miles; they have gearboxes which feel like stirring a bathtub…

Frank Weber was the global chief engineer over the Volt project while he was at GM, eventually rising to become a vice president at Opel. That career trajectory does not sound as if at the end of it you might find yourself on the board of BMW, but nothing really makes sense anymore.

Controversial opinion: Building a factory is only the first step in a long journey to getting that sweet sweet economic output.

Attainable 1990s luxury, you say...?

I’m still not totally sure what’s going on with those handles at the front of the fenders. Maybe for tying down weird roof cargo like a canoe. But I kind of dig the way they look.

GM’s deal with PSA allows the the sale of Opel-branded vehicles on GM platforms to continue in their existing markets. A deal that required them to tear down existing production facilities and burn previous investments would be very wasteful.

It’s all relative. It may only be a 4-foot bed but it’s half the length of the vehicle.

Koenigsegg have won this battle, but the horsepower wars will never end (and the platform bloat will continue in parallel). Twenty years from now, people will worry that 1000 hp isn’t enough to propel their six-tonne SUV with a single occupant to the mall to buy groceries, and they’ll want to upgrade to something more…

This is the kind of pedantry that Jalopnik excels at.

It’s partly a visibility thing. The unions who knuckle down and do the tedious work helping their members don’t get many headlines.

This is the best answer.