“I strode out of the terminal at Johannesburg’s huge airport into a wall of wet heat.”

It’s 6,000 feet above sea level and the heat is famously dry in Joburg. About as humid as LA.

Ford got the idea from the Lancia Lambda

The previous internal-combustion altitude record was set 13 years ago, by a Suzuki Samurai. This Unimog beat it by 6 meters.

Profanities substitute talent

Alanis, relax. They came up with ‘Philip’, the proxy buyer for the DB11. Now it’s Charlotte for the DBX. This is internal stuff, and it’s marketing 101. Try again...

Cape Town has a big film industry thing going on (and some Pumas), so I though this was shot in South Africa.

Senna only tested when he had to, or when there was a rookie testing - then he’d show up to set target times, but he wasn’t very enthusiastic about testing.

GM aerodynamicist Nina Tortosa told me a decade ago that it was also for aero reasons, to help control the air flowing along the side of the car, and keep it smooth by minimising turbulent swirls.  

Try Johnny Herbert’s new autobiography, it’s pretty fun and makes Eddie seem like a genuinely great guy too. I also found him annoying but I jumped to conclusions.

He’s an “automotive purist” with shit all over his car and a roof box on top? Please learn the meaning of words before you write them.

People like you are why every car’s a crossover.

It’s not pedantic, it’s a crucial point in a terribly lazy post. It even begins with an untrue headline.

Jason, if you gave me the choice of, say, that Hummer, a Veloster, a Camry, a Touareg, an A6, and a Malibu, I also wouldn’t care less.

A lot of people don’t care because they don’t know any better.

Materials mostly, heat management, etc, the crankshafts are made of the exact same stuff, by the same people, etc. Wait until the Paris motor show this year for more direct tech transfer to the road...

Raid steering wheels, and Atiwe.

Retarded...

You don’t understand ‘branding’...

Its history is legit. Suede/flock etc. comes from a very practical motorsport use: anti-glare and anti-slip.

The Chinese never dropped bombs on my schools and hospitals, so it’s a tough question...

Replace your use of ‘Chinese’ with ‘United States’ and how exactly does your statement differ? Obviously their own self interests are at their best interest...