Mixing trucks and cars is just plain stupid in any case, but much more so to the extent the US does it. They really needs to sort out the logistics infrastructure so that goods can go long distances by train - trucks should be the spokes, not the hub-to-hub transport.

"Modern cars typically get better mileage at higher speeds thanks to (as others have said) gearing and vastly improved drag coefficients."

2 - Does being a 'pickup' magically make a truck subject to different laws of physics?

Are you saying that particular truck is safe at higher speeds? It's still a massive lump of metal with four little contact patches holding it to the road. You can put a big engine in it, but you can't break the laws of physics.

"The F40 was the best supercar ever made."

An F40's an amazing car - but not the best ever by a wide margin, as is commonly claimed by people who've mostly never been near one, or even the best ever at all. It's blisteringly fast, but incredibly compromised and uncomfortable - bascially a road-legal track car.

No, but I was talking about price comparison. (And my mind went blank when I tried to think of other cheap speed.) A muscle car is by definition cheap speed - that's its whole reason for being as it is.

Not so much that the F50 is under-rated as that the F40 is the most over-rated car on the planet. The F40 ought to be rated as just a little less good than the F50, but the F50 currently gets its due.

Unpredictable? No. Dangerous, yes, if you can't drive. What's that got to do with it? Compared to a Mustang of the same era, the Porsche might as well have been on rails.

Not compared to a modern 911, which is one of the best handling cars out there. Mustangs and Corvettes and so-on don't compare well to 911s, baby Astons, and so-on because they're not in the same price bracket and can't compete on quality. Fair comparison is with other cheaper quick cars like Evos, Imprezas, and so-on…

"Go price a Porsche with similar power, performance, and usefulness.."

Yeah, proper Jags are, well, the only word for it is phallic. The first-gen XK8 wasn't perfect, but it was definitely a Jag. This one? Could be anything.

I agree, it's really hard to know what to call it. There's something about recent Jags - the XKR is a perfect example - which makes them look odd to me. A touch of Lexus LFA or something, which doesn't sound right because the shape is completely different. I don't have the vocabulary for this.

I find it very difficult to see - I can't see even the merest hint of E-type in the F-type. Quite a lot of Z8, bit of Lexus LFA/generic modern Japanese sportscar, but not the slightest resemblance to an E-tpe.

Ooh, are we getting a proper new Venturi?

Is it just my eyes? Looks to me like the rear wing is a different shape - compare the proportion above the wheel to the height - and also a bit wider. Obviously that's to get the bigger wheels in there, but it makes a fairly large difference to my eye.

I can see some E-type in the Z8 - but strangely, that seems to be the bit Jag subtracted from the Z8 to make the F-type.

Definitely. Bad knock-off. I thought Jaguar was Indian, not Chinese...

Z8, definitely.

I'm evidently blind or insane. There's a great looking car in there somewhere, struggling to get out, but everything forward of the windscreen is wrong, and the back-end needs work because they've only half-copied the BMW Z8, and it's worse for it.