Part of it is also their subtle way of looking down on the mainland Chinese. 

Isn’t there also the fact that Takahiro Hachigo, who made the initial decision to leave the sport, stepped down as CEO in April of 2021, and that his replacement, Toshihiro Mibe, was more open to staying?

So basically give every car worse reliability than last year’s Ferraris?

The cars can be made safer by reducing the length though. In fact, a fair bit of the length is made up by the majority of the gearbox being a giant spacer sitting between the actual gears and the engine, that isn’t part of the crash structure. The cars are long because they’re allowed to be that long and the…

Is it really still a Boxster with all the work that was likely needed to transform it into the 3-seat, driver-in-the-center layout?

Peak Uncle Ruckus energy.

The takeaway from that e_ought video isn’t that there should be more legal drifting competitions in the US, it’s that there should be an Ebisu-like circuit complex that makes it cheap to run drift (and grip/time attack) events, including stuff like the Drift Matsuri events at Ebisu.

So Lexus’ evolution of their polarizing “spindle” grill design is to basically separate the upper portion and make it not a grill any more (as first seen on the LM minivan for global markets)?

Mercedes also really wants you to know that the SL 43's engine uses an electric exhaust gas turbocharger to make its power, as well as that the technology is a direct derivative of the tech developed by its Formula 1 team.

Because whoever was in charge of running this decided that an image of Lotus’ SUV was okay, instead of a sedan like the Carlton.

Every time the Hulk blinks, he’s tagged as the reserve or replacement driver for a different team.

Oh for it to be brown, and diesel-powered.

First/Neutral:

A lot of what Toyota’s doing makes more sense when you realize how much they sell in markets where there is barely any charging infrastructure (including, but not limited to, third world countries in Africa, LatAm and Asia). While the rest of the West is buying EVs, people in these places are still…

But how does the Antiguan government make any money off it that way?

Turbo engine has always been a Ranger Raptor thing anyway, with the outgoing one having the Ecoblue biturbo inline 4 diesel. In any case, the US spec one you’re getting over there still has more power over the outgoing Raptor, as well as the version we’re getting here in the rest of the world.

Gawd, that facelifted front-end makes it look like a warmed over mid-2000s Hyundai.

This. Japan has this figured out with Ebisu holding seasonal “Drift Matsuri” events. And even then, participating is cheap since a lot of the usual things you might end up paying for at a track (e.g. crashes, barrier repair) are waived, plus there’s also the option (via Power Vehicles) of buying a car that you can…

The pink lighting makes me think that the car is sponsored by BWT.

Fun fact (mentioned in the video) the previous owner was Vijay Mallya, that Vijay Mallya, former owner of the Force India Formula 1 team (as well as its primary sponsor, Kingfisher Airlines).

I still don’t understand the purpose behind plastic cladding around the wheel arches. I think most cars would look fine with the metal arches with a little cladding like the brake vents.