In profile it's like a contemporary hybrid of the Series 1 and 2 – C-pillar and tail like the S1, long raked nose and backward slanting glasshouse from the S2.

The relative speeds between the two cars are actually pretty small, so wheel-to-wheel stuff on the straights probably doesn't need lightning reactions. Doing it braking at 5G and hitting the apex is another matter.

Meanwhile, here's a car with a real functioning grille pretending that it doesn't have one, so it can look like a rear-engined car from the 1950s.

I disagree, actually - that looks sporty and distinctive, kind of like a sleeker Panamera. It could do with a more visible badge, maybe. I'd look twice at that car on the street, Teslas just blend in with every other large sedan.

I don't get why Tesla needs to ape a design element tied to the very technology that their entire corporate mission is to replace. It's strangely insecure of them.

Current Lexus models, especially the RCF:

I think he had to pit for new overalls after that.

I've been in something with these door locks ... Vauxhall Omega maybe?

And storage for up to six cassettes! Six!

959.

Much better. Think of the weight they could save by replacing all the bodypanels with black plastic mesh.

Lexus's designers need to step up their game - there are still parts of this car that aren't grille.

The buttons hovering over the driver's right knee (it's a RHD model) including the Adaptive Front-Lighting System (AFS), the Idling Stop Technology (engine start-stop or i-Stop in Mazda parlance), Blind Spot Monitoring, and a Lane Departure Warning System.

Yeah, I had a 155HP 2.0L engine in a car from 1997 (Alfa TwinSpark). And that was without direct injection ...

It is asymmetrical. The drive shaft is on the centre line, and the frame rail is offset:

There's stuff about lower- and upper-leg impacts, but mid-engined cars like the 981 Boxster and 458 still have very low noses. I guess if you can pass the tests, you're good to go.

I don't think there's anything weird going on there - look at the top-down shot, the torque tube just runs alongside that frame rail.

Can you spot the plate on this SLR?

I made the same comment when I saw that nose. The regs are all about allowing the hood to act as a crumple zone for a pedestrians head, so you need to have about 3" clearance between the hood and solid bits of the engine.