I don’t think this bit is function over form.

Lots going on here to visually break up and disguise the height or the rear end. That’s a very narrow rear window.

Think I prefer this one without the unnecessary chrome in the intakes.

Tesla has done a great marketing job, you have to give them that.

Hardly, Rossi left it so late he managed to finish behind Marquez who’d been running third, and behind three satellite riders - one of whom had been off his bike in the gravel. He was extremely lucky that Lorenzo ditched it, would have finished behind him too otherwise.

Rossi had the win in his hands and threw it away today. No idea what he was thinking. Stayed out at least three laps too long with wet tyres when riders on slicks were lapping 10 seconds quicker.

Nah, that’s how XJ pillars look:

You mean when Spinelli used to do a daily Jalopnik/TTAC podcast with Robert Farago?

Yeah, whenever they announce a sporty VW or Audi now it’s like a checklist:

Is the Superb on the A6 platform now? I thought the older one was basically a stretched Passat.

Better sound than the V8.

Because if you’re interested in those, you won’t be interested in the Buick Encore.

It’s the Corsa-on-stilts one ... I want to say Meriva? Mokka?

I mean, that doesn’t invalidate the numbers, it just shows that the milage testing regimes are artificial and open to exploitation. Cylinder deactivation is just the same as fitting a small mill with a big turbo that stays well off boost in the lab (i.e. the European approach).

I’m pretty sure the first one is just a bike courier delivering some window blinds.

That’s why nearly everywhere has moved on from displacement tax to CO2, which is effectively a measure of how much combustion you’re doing.

It’s not lying, it’s just measured under very specific driving conditions where you’re not using any of the car’s performance.

The worst is the camera-enforced ‘smart motorway’ variable limits. Fine, if it says 60, I’ll stick to sixty and help traffic flow. When the signs are off, what then? You end up driving through gantry-mounted GATSOs for miles, trying to make sure someone ahead of you isn’t setting them off, as people get braver and…

But no Turbo-style intakes on the arches? Is the layout of this engine different in terms of breathing/cooling?

Isn’t that with cylinder deactivation and the 1st-4th gear shift lockout trick?