Yegads!

When people wonder about how Morgan continues to be successful, you get a good idea why from listening to Charles Morgan in the vid. When the guy who runs the company can say "I won a sports car championship in that car", you know that everyone from the top down is utterly committed to their vision.

To television format refreshing land.

Along with the BRM square-16.

Is there a cooler historic engine layout that straight-eight? It even feels good to say the words. An engine configuration that desperately needs to come back.

The thing I love about this story is that later on, when the Benz patent Motor Wagon was reviewed/reported on in a newspaper it was roundly panned, the very idea of driving one's self in a motor wagon being described as "an affront to dignity". How perspectives change!

Indeed, things like this and your million quid Pagani will break in half if you have a side impact bad enough to dissipate force.

Somebody please sneak this out while everyone is oogling the car.

One of the things I really love about this car is that the stater turns the engine over for quite a long time. I read somewhere that this was a deliberate decision to hark back to the classic roadsters. Anyone know if this is true, and not just the car waiting for oil pressure to level out before sparking up?

With McLaren, you never know, but the top candidates are:

This pointless detail doesn't help.

Annoyingly there are few suitable body on frame cars, especially here in eurp. The way to go seems to be a space-frame plus a donor drive train, suspension etc from a popular car. MX5/Miata would be my go to choice as they're numerous, light, rwd.

I beleive they already have a test mule Up! with this drive train. Fingers crossed!

Amazingly, thanks to the clip together format of the long primary manifold exhaust, and the mad fiberglass skills of ex-GTM production manager Dudley Shearman, the car was repaired without requiring a new body tub that would have made it an insurance loss. I got several more years out of it before it's cooling system…

Taking a downhill right-hander in my Westfield, hit a bump and bottomed out the car sending it into a left-hand-down skid. Westfields are no Caterhams in this department in standard guise, so I was not expecting to hold it, but to come to a rest pointing back where I'd come from. However, the corner closed into a…

Push to pass... jet fighters?

Yep, the DRS button will take 25% off the downforce applied by the rear wing to enable light-speed (or a massive accident).

It's a bit or Yurp thing. The regulations on head/tail lamps are ridiculous in the EU, small makers can't justify the costs of getting designs certified, so buy off the shelf.

With regard to concerns about exploding compressed air tanks, this is unlikely, there will be a pressure releif device somewhere in the system, which is basically a soft metal cap with will "melt" and release the pressure from the system if it gets above a certain limit, and the tanks themselves are designed to split…

I quite agree, the whole idea of range anxiety is shoddy journalism fodder. You might as well write an article questioning the future of bicycles for long distance travel. You use the vehicle that suits the purpose!