I think it’s a question of what we mean by diversity. Usually in most contexts it’s about representation, or rectifying historic underrepresentation. But, I guess some may mean that we should have equal proportions of all groups everywhere, regardless of who gets under- or overrepresented?

This is deceiving, because following similar logic you could say that the sport is doing great, with 5% of the drivers being of African descent, which is nearly 5x more than the proportion of Europeans of African descent.

Also, if you want to have a semantics-based argument regarding the title, Black British people are about 3% of the UK population.

That may be, but the report doesn’t limit itself to the UK and only 3 of the teams based in the UK are truly British. Ultimately Red Bull decisions are made in Austria, Mercedes decisions are made in Germany, Haas decisions are made in the US, and Alpine decisions are made in France.

If you read the excerpts from the report in the article, it appears that it was not, in fact, geographically limited to the UK:

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that F1 is a European-dominated sport and Europeans of African descent make up about 1.2% of Europe’s population.

Okay you found one of the handful of cars that meets your criteria and is interesting. But you know well you’re discounting most interesting cars from the past and a good many from the present with this arbitrary requirement.

Believe it or not you don’t have to daily every car you might own and putting the hundreds of…

The slogan for a magazine about these cars: “No interesting cars!”

If I was working at Acura the car I wouldn’t want to be mentioned is the Charger Scat Pack Widebody. It sounds funny at first until you realize Acura doesn’t exactly have the brand cachet Audi/Mercedes have, so it can’t really trade on that. And in terms of features anyone who’s actually been in a recent Charger would…

This is true in general, although Fiat found success at first and so has Mini. And the continued success of Japanese cars was built on dominance in small cars going back to the 1970s. I think maybe it’s if you’re going to try to make a small car, regardless of its origin, it has to be the best or most interesting and…

Good point. I should have written that they haven’t been investing in new platforms for existing models.

It’s crazy how when a company doesn’t invest in any new platforms for multiple brands for over a decade, those brands end up struggling. Who’d a thunk it?

Porsches have been toward to the top of reliability ratings for a number of years now and the Cayenne is an obvious daily for many who can afford it. Is this that surprising?

Have you been following the whole season? The gap was even wider in other races. 10 and 15 in Bahrain. 8 and 15 in Italy. Only in Portugal did Vettel manage to come ahead by one place at 13 and 14.

Except I think what’s more likely is the viewership for the new series will be very low and it will run for 1-2 seasons. They’ll have only themselves to blame.

I hope they didn’t pay Vettel too much to keep being slower than Stroll... There were a lot of cheaper drivers who could have done that for them.

MotorTrend even has a cable channel after it took over Velocity! Why not broadcast it there? It’s crazy.

MotorTrend has its own cable channel for Chrissakes! Why not broadcast it there?

Why aren’t they broadcasting it on the MotorTrend channel that took over Velocity? That would help the show reach so many more homes. And given the notoriety of Top Gear, I don’t think they’d have to sell it to casual viewers much either. It’s baffling.

I think I saw this one for sale on Autotrader. “Minor accident reported.”