It would be a mercy killing. For all of us.

That looks absolutely terrible. I think I’ll watch Burn Notice again instead.

I guess you can see the justification in the case of those raw materials and perhaps the cause and effect e.g. higher prices of imports will encourage domestic firms to increase production but BMWs and Mercs, nah, not so much.

I don’t think the goods/materials necessarily need to come from adversarial states but that either a sudden loss of supply or the fact of overseas supply meaning significant loss of production ‘at home’ could impact security e.g. aluminium from overseas is used to make warplanes and if imports dried up that would no…

Yes, and by requiring that it shifts the burden of proof to the claimant and I would imagine ‘national security’ is a claim that would be very hard to disprove.

The ‘adverse effect on national security’ is simply an underhand means to impose tariffs without breaking WTO rules.

That right there is why I read The Economist every week and the BBC website every morning.

Good thing there’s some hard plastic where I’m sitting.

My dad has a Gamma coupe stashed in the garage.

Nah, they all left centuries ago and sailed west to found a new nation.

David better set off now.

The Right Stuff is an amazing read. I revisit it every few years.

I soldiered on the my 65 Mustang GT for about four years. It looked and sounded fantastic but it was a POS to drive and horrendously unreliable. Stuff broke constantly.

Actually the the reference to “screen’ in the Brooklands set up is a shortening of “aero-screen” so those aren’t windscreens at least as common parlance goes.

One of these:

I mean, you really can’t deny that these cars look like the future

Great. Now I want to emigrate. Again.

You missed the best bit of the press release:

Just buy this and lift it

See also: Jaguar. My folks are on something like their fifth or sixth and all have been perfectly reliable.