I am a massive fan.

Not related to the topic but if you wanted more of the Porsche on the photo (if i am not mistaken, the copilot is the cousin of Eric Camilli, the WRC2 driver) :

No.

I agree that for turn signals it’s not the best but it looked cool.

The Citroën GSA was also nice :

The front grille looks like a DS7 (and 4) rear taillight :

The phase 1 production version also had rad wheels made by FASS :

The numbers are for the whole European market (Ford has been declining in volume and share for quite a long time, they had less than 6% of the market in 2020 while they had around 12% in early 90s).

You are right but the Mondeo is not a big seller : 40k unit sold in 2019 vs 227k Fiesta, 223k Focus and 161k Kuga, 50k Ranger (which is way more than i would have expected) and 65k Transit and Tourneo Connect (the Custom models sold even better and the Courier was close).

In France they already have 7 models available in hybrid and one EV on their 17 model lineup :

The news is about Ford of Europe which have an almost totally different lineup to the American market Ford, the overlap being mainly rather low volume in Europe like the Ford GT, Mustang, Ranger or Explorer (only available in PHEV here), there is also the Ecosport which was designed for India to start with and the…

I hope everything will come back to normal soon, that’s not a fun thing to endure.

My bad, i thought the Model 3 was also fully aluminium.

It might be to have something similar to PSA Motorsport which does work on race cars and performance road cars on the same buildings and with team members going from one to the other, they also sell race cars and their parts through the retail branch of the group instead of doing their own thing.

The Model 3 chassis is in aluminium, it would be hard to beat in term of weight and range by just stretching the same platform and putting a bigger battery and as the battery is what cost the most in an EV it would be hard to make a competitive car against it (based on the current pricing).

Because bigger is heavier and require even bigger batteries to have the same kind of range so the cars would cost more and still won’t be ideal to do road trips.

They will answer as soon as the electricity will be back.

The current maximum CO2 tax is 30000€ if the car emits more than 218g of CO2/km during the WLTP emission test and the maximum tax is supposed to be 40k€ next year.