Renault engineers considered the split turbo and considered it suboptimal for packaging reasons, I think. Even ScarbsF1 talked about the idea of a split turbo when the 2014 regs were first announced - so it's not like it was some genius breakthrough on Mercedes part.

Apparently it can disengage the turbine side of the turbo when its drag is undesirable (clutch on the turbine-compressor shaft, I guess).

The Mercedes engine isn't a golden ticket:

Hmmm, unless it was actually all rust?

I now want to know if anyone has put a P50 inside a bigger car. Looks like it fit in a V70 just fine. If you put the seats down you could probably drive it around in there.

I wonder how that would fare in the møøse test.

Saw one in the wild today, metallic brown and rust. Entire greenhouse was fogged up apart from two little circles the drives and his passenger had cleared.

That's why they charge more for it. The 3-series is the pleb model now, it's all about the upsell.

Mk2 Golf reporting in! 3-door, and the passenger side could only be opened from outside. And the driver's seat tilt release cable was broken.

For a moment I thought that was a spare wheel in the bottom shot. That would be a very practical trunk.

Only in the minds of people trying to retrospectively fit them into the 'winds' naming system :)

"Goal".

And the golfball shifter knob on the mk1 GTi ...

Or sports references (Golf, Polo, Gol).

All of Kimi's woes are caused by the front end not biting and turning in how he likes, so he can't carry speed through corners. Vettel seems to have been struggling with the loss of blown diffusers and the extra torque of the new engine formula, since traction out of slow turns is where he usually makes his gains.

New models, like it says in the article.

Ah, Veloces. I used to get mine serviced there.

But nobody buys them.

With the business now under his control, Bernie sold it to the highest bidder – CVC Partners in 2005. And Formula One was now owned by a bunch of bankers who needed to justify the purchase price, and who probably would have liked to sideline Bernie, but who realized that the benign dictatorship he presided over could…

You know, if only they stretched and lowered it, added a trunk, lots of leather and luxury toys, and made it RWD with a W12 up front, it could be a real Bentley Mulsanne fighter.