If it helps, it isn’t a Saudi plate, it’s a UK plate with a Saudi emblem printed on it. A bit like it not being a Lamborghini but looking like one.

F1 gets the gate receipts, not the track, hence why they’ve been racking up more losses with more people turning up. F1 under Bernie was a real shit-show for the older and less affluent tracks like Silverstone. Unless you had a friendly dictator or oligarch you were stuck with nothing essentially.

I think they usually get away with not doing it in super low volume cases like this. Though if it has an F1 style crash structure then it can’t be that bad.

Me too, plus an ‘89 passat that only blew its HG at 240k miles.
That said, the Golf was 52 miles old and both rads were a “manufacturing fault”, so I’m guessing there was a supplier issue somewhere.

Oh I know (my old Passat does rather), just seems as though it will kill it instantly rather than a slow descent into death.

When I first heard about these, other than “damn, that’s a good idea”, I did think “a head gasket or cooling system failure is going to be an utter car killer in the future”.
Honestly, the benefits of this to efficiency is very very impressive but I really hope they’re being made well enough to last/cooling systems…

Those damn gasses these days.

It’s something they have as part of their “Hangar 7" collection.

I mean, I’m not sure, but I’ve heard this “not America” is pretty big, bigly even. I might look into it someday.

I’m guessing it’s more of a Euro target thing. Premium/luxury small SUV/crossovers are utterly dominating the market here and the F-Pace actually isn’t that small in Europe. If this is Golfish in size then they really will sell bucketloads (in the UK, maybe not the rest of Europe).

It is an odd thing, looking at the figures, the Subaru is the most peaky of all of them, totally goes against what you think of in this lot.

It would be if the max torque didn’t come in at 1800 rpm, “VWTEC just kick - oh it already did...” 

It is pretty good having all the torque that low, but it’s a flat curve too, so it’s essentially everywhere in the rev range. I’ve got a ‘17 manual Euro R (identical to the one in the pics) and with the slight update in power as well as all the other “nice to have” options on the base model, it’s really pretty close…

In the UK at least there seems to be a general consensus that most modern (younger than 10 years old) Toyota appliances seem to be driven by people who are almost entirely oblivious to other traffic.
Similar applies to older models of Peugeots (2000-2011 ish), most Audi A1/3's (older than 2 years) and any Citroen…

Bloody hipster, getting out of Mitte before it was cool then coming back and saying it’s cooler than Kreuzberg? Pah... :)

Kind of...
I mean, yes, objectively. Driving a modified car on the road, in comparison to a standard example, is wank. As in, it is worse at being a road car on the whole.
And no. Gran Turismo taught us that modified cars are awesome, on a track. Off road too, in terms of Rally/Rallyx or general off-roading.

Don’t…

If it helps I’m 6'5" and drive a Fiesta ST...

That said, it is a 3 door (US 2 door). I struggle to get in and out of smaller saloons/wagons.
Case in point, I’ve had to order a 3 door Golf R because I was struggling to get past the B-pillar and steering wheel when the seat and wheel is adjusted for me. With thicker…

Gotta love what those guys at Msport do, not only are they engineering badasses but they’ve worked out how to make it a profitable business too.

To be fair the early 00's carry over a lot of simplified 90's tech, just a bit tidier.

Totally agree. Though I did learn to work on 90's cars when learning to wrench at all so I might be biased.
Coil packs, soooo much easier than distributor and points. A sensor gone bad? Not many of them, easier to find, better wiring to back it up. Slightly more robust electrics/rustproofing on the whole.