“You don’t feel how fast you are [going].”

Those mirrors, though!

Sorry, this might be a quick-ish van, but it’s no Supervan.

I’m still in the stage of keeping the poor car (a 1989 Austin Mini Racing Flame) in limbo – although, as you can see, I have still managed to increase its horsepower count while it waits.
I too got this while in high school, with a view to restoring it in time for it to be my first car. I too lacked funding to even…

Every photo of this show I’ve seen has had almost no people in it. Did the press get to go when it was really quiet, or is the show actually quite ‘dead’?

Ironic that the biggest following Drivetribe has is its page on a different platform (FB).

If you look closer at the 1997 roadcar’s dash – the outline, where the dials are – and then look at the racecar’s dash, it’s actually the same housing, just with blanked-off bits and an LCD display plonked on top. So it’s not, like, *100%* different. Although this implies that, oddly, the street version’s dash was…

Those who do not heed the lessons of Simca 1000 Rallye are doomed to experience Simca 1000 Rallye 2.

Of course, if you wanted a manual gearbox then you could try swapping in the 2JZ with one attached ;-)

“around 470 HP will be what the cars can maintain throughout the race, with the full 778 HP available for things like overtaking.”

I should’ve expected nothing less from this place, with regards to the winner...

The last Dodge Nitro I saw (in the UK, where it never stood a chance of success anyway) was three years ago in Swansea and it was owned by a radio station I’d never heard of. Somehow that just felt like the right kind of customer for it...

It’s the wafer-thin semiotics of them *looking* safer, added to the psychological effect of sitting above the surroundings rather than amongst them.

This is HEROIC.

Like a ‘90s nylon tracksuit jacket

They officially pulled out of the UK a couple of years ago. Now I think there’s just an importer of Corvettes/Camaros (possibly through Cadillac dealers, although I don’t know if we’ve even still got those anymore).

Most of them have it as an option and the Punto doesn’t.

It got two stars for occupant protection, but the overall score of zero comes from it not having things like a Collision Avoidance System that hits the brakes automatically at certain (low) speeds, and not warning passengers about their seatbelt not being on, and stuff like that.

I remember when Top Gear magazine used to have a JD Power Survey issue every year - and even did a segment in the TV show in the early ‘00s, when the S2000 and Jaguar XJ were topping the charts. It seemed important at the time.

It doesn’t look like it’s just Kia-Hyundais. I am SURE that the car in the lead image of this article is a Mercedes CLS, and I spot an R8 badge on the penultimate image...