Looks like its a testing mule for the replacement. The hacked up exhaust surround looks like it was made to accommodate the replacement’s:

That rear end is janky as all hell. That looks like a testbed of a new powerplant, not a new variant of the 650S.

I seriously missed the stig while watching GrandTour.

my reaction to the opening

But the cheat reportedly works thusly, and it’s ingenious in its simplicity:

I can’t believe the m4 gts is quicker. There is no way a customer BMW M4 GTS is quicker. They pulled a Ferrari for sure ...

I’m guessing they cloned multiple copies of Chris Harris as he keeps dying in automotive disasters and they wound up with an extra.

Harris is a shareholder in Drive so they are probably excluded from any exclusivity agreements. Also CHOC is apart of Top Gear or is Top Gear apart of Harris’s ever growing motoring empire. It’s a bit hard to tell.

might be my BIASED keyboard

Someone should have punched him in the face! Do you see all those little kids.

I think you meant 1993 to 2001?

M4, you mean?

That’s not what cheating is about. Cheaters don’t go looking for someone hotter.

I always thought that the Mclaren front end designs looked like a smiling treefrog...

And I don’t mind one. Single. Bit.

Wild animals, road imperfections, cross-winds... I’m sure people have tried, though.

You know, all these VW cheating stories remind me of a few (2,3?) years ago reading that VW wanted to be the biggest auto maker on the planet and had ambitious plans to sell X number of cars by the year 20xx.

The first rule of Physics Club is we assume we’re in a frictionless vacuum!

If you stare at them long enough, maybe it will sink in?

I think he meant “When you put drag radials/slicks on the car and force the car to gain traction in the first two forward gears, the car starts breaking transmission components because they were stressed to a point of failure, regardless of the fact these components were never meant to see such stress loads”