The guy who designed that project has worked for Porsche since 2015, and the project was sponsored by Porsche while he was intern there, so I think Danny should expect a phone call very soon from some German lawyers if he hasn’t licensed this.

Although I have a sense it won’t be his first time dealing with corporate la…

From the original article description it sounds like he was indeed inside the KFC eating his dinner, and that the line to order took about 15 minutes (and again for the kids to get ice cream after they’d eaten their fried chicken). The way Ryan wrote this is incredibly misleading compared to the original Sun article,…

You seem a bit confused. The matte black hood/trunk was the classic Abarth Rally livery from the original 124. The new “Fiata” is FCA desperately trying to make you think of this car, not the other way around.

Normcore is the new hardcore.

Absolutely true, but it’s not truly a flat top nor a flat back, so a small spoiler and slight concavity at the extremities should be enough to make it more aero efficient than the steeply raked rear screen.

Theoretically the flat back should be more aero efficient, similar to a Kamm tail/chopped rear of the Honda Insight. In fact, it probably wouldn’t need such a big spoiler on a vertical tail (although it looks pretty great on the render).

We’ve met Jason, and I love, not like, the CVT in my Mercedes A-Class (old kind). It’s got a bit of lag, but then it pulls like a motherfucker straight to optimal revs and stays there until I don’t need them anymore. Around town, smooth as silk, on the highway, calm until I say “go”. I’m old school, but a good CVT…

Best Use of Sex Toys to Advertise Tax Services?
This wheelbarrow full of dildos from mileage logging app Vimcar.

The show floor was brutally hot today all around, and I counted 4 ambulances just while I was walking between the halls. That’s a lot of folks needing medical attention for a day of auto show coverage, much less CEOing a major automaker.

Hyundai actually showed this slide-out extender in the original presentation of the Santa Cruz. I don’t know if they’ll put it into production, but they certainly understand that the ability to extend the bed is potentially important for success.

No argument from me there, just trying to say that Tavarish’s argument that the Korean way is better is completely and utterly wrong for the Dutch scenario. That said, with space in general at such a premium here, “wasted” horizontal space is much harder to find, with very few covered parking lots (or parking lots at…

The Korean one is interesting but totally irrelevant for Dutch bike paths. Nobody wants giant solar panels obscuring the view out their front windows and across every green space in the country (where bike paths here usually are located). Sure, on a highway, that’s fine, but Dutch bike paths are not near/next to…

I have an Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon with a Selespeed transmission and it’s largely the same story. On the highway it performs very well. Fast, near seamless shifts.

All well said, but I don’t think Lincoln will have the 20 years Cadillac did. If this doesn’t work, I’d be willing to bet they close shop. Also, they’ve had a long time to figure this out, no excuse for this to be half-baked!

Well, as an American car designer living in Europe, I can understand where you're coming from, but I find this to be a bland Chinese-targeted meh-mobile (once the ridiculous chrome is removed). It doesn't have any of the sense of occasion of a classic Lincoln, and also seems to have tossed most brand heritage out the…

Not sure I agree on this direction, but it's hardly the point. I know they were never sold in the EU, but you'd be surprised how many cars make their way over here anyway. Funny enough, a lot of incredibly shit Yank tanks from the '70s and '80s show up on Dutch roads.

It's an obscure marque here because they've been utterly awful cars for more than 30 years.

Fracking hell, there's a repurposed Cylon as a center console!

They must've forgotten that they were doing a new Lincoln Continental, because this is clearly a knock-off of a Bentley Continental. Silly mistake that you would have expected someone to notice before the car was finished.

We (Car Design Research) worked in the early stages with UsTwo to develop this idea. The main reasoning behind it is not because we hate analog gauges (we don't, we love them), but because we kind of hate the new digital ones. If you've never seen the horror that is the La Ferrari's gauge cluster, I recommend you find…