True enough - Simon Humphries and Alfonso Albaisa are both long term at Toyota and Nissan. Perhaps the biggest problem for Japanese makers is lack of bloody-mindedness, believing it when the press tells them they need a corporate face and VI and to be “different”, rather than just doing what feels right at the time,…

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I have posted these on Jalopnik previously. Your main concern, if you are anything over 50th percentile, should be that the insides of kei campers are like 1/2 scale doll’s houses.

A lot of votes for Tokyo, which is understandable. I’m biased, but my vote goes to Odawara, 50 miles south-west from Tokyo on the Pacific coast.

There used to be a contemporary Monte Carlo parked around the corner from our house in London back in the late ‘70s. When the doors were open I couldn’t get over their sheer bulk, looking like a whole Ford Fiesta chopped in half lengthways, the front seats like lounge chairs in your granny’s house and the mystifying…

Lamborghini Trattori still manufactures agricultural equipment to this day.

Without the fins it would be spot on cool.

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These are almost, but not quite, exactly unlike the proportions I was expecting from the heading photo.

The launch — which will send an Earth observation satellite to the Italian Space Agency...

These things are hilariously Lilliputian. Here is Gulliver checking one out at the camping car show at Makuhari Messe in 2015.

Permanent war, information harvesting, obfuscation of language, etc. etc.

Maybe better still, “In fact, they are turn indicators from the 1969 Mercury Cougar...”

What they really are is turn indicators from the 1969 Mercury Cougar...

Their CEO has history. I’ve quoted this on Jalopnik before; it’s what he told the NYT in 2003 in a previous job:

Epic find.

And BMW gives your spine and giblets extra punishment by only fitting run-flat tyres, which work like an extra inch off ride quality.

Imagine what Herbie Hancock would get for his DDed, almost completely original, one-owner Cora if he ever decided to sell.

Since before the pandemic All Nippon Airways will give you a set of eye-mask, ear plugs and face mask on request in any seating class on international flights. The face mask is described as something to mitigate the effects of dry cabin air by creating a small pocket of humid air around your breathing holes and is…