People in Europe would buy more wagons if they were actually advertised.

According to The Sun’s anonymous BBC staffers

Sara Cox.

It also caught fire. See page 4 of the .pdf.

In case you were wondering, yes, it’s a Fiat Seicento, and yes, it’s a deathtrap:

‘clean surface’ ‘touchscreen’

Can’t really compare the two eras. Rallies were longer in those days, and cars were less reliable.

Roll cages are pretty great

Do these vehicles not have handbrakes?

£5k will get you a 1994 one:

Other horrendously unreliable vehicles are available.

I actually don’t hate that design. Fix the windows, make them parallel with the roof. Fix the headlights, redesign the whole front end really. I think that would make a sort of half decent European SportWagon thing. Even as it stands, it’s better than the Benz brake things.

That’s not Silverstone. The car park isn’t flooded.

‘This proposal, if approved by the F1 governing bodies’

Hang on, they’re having a race in Las Vegas? Is it a street circuit? Roval? Brand new Circuit? Car park?

This isn’t Ferrari Challenge. This is French GT.

Do they have to be saloons, or could you make them sort of ‘long tail’ hatchbacks?

That’s crazy. The Familia saloon/shatch costs £300 more than the hatch. Is the saloon manufactured in North America or something?

Hang on, so this isn’t about the HMS Queen Elizabeth?