Neutral: Batter swapping? Why not car swapping entirely? Combine car sharing and electric cars. Whenever you need a car, you go to a charging station, rent one and drive it. If you run out of power, drive to the next car sharing station and swap your car for one with a charged battery, while the care you came with…

5th Gear: People still seem to think that Dacia is by-and-large an individual car manufacturer which is owned by Renault. But fact is, it is not: Today’s Dacias are totally and completely last generation Renaults under a new tin body, because Renault uses Dacia to give last-generation engines, trannies, suspensions,…

The Star Treck-movie franchise gives ample evidence for that.

45 years ago, the Ford Capri 3100 Cosworth brought the glory of V6 engines upon us disbelieving Germans. Enjoy in awe the onboard-howl and growl of a 3412 cc, 415 HP-V6 at 9000 rpm carrying it out with other contemporary supercars during a 24h classic race in it’s natural habitat, the Nürburgring.

It’a a truck. So it has a bed. So it could house two of these engines - one at the front and one at the rear. Another chance wasted.

Fiat-Chrysler-Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi = FaCReNuM or Facrenum, from Latin: “Domine salvum fac regnum”, i.e. “Lord, protect the King!”

Don’t be so naive. european car makers are known among european motor journalists to only hand out “specially selected” (read: chip tuned) specimen of their products to the press for evaluation. It was like that when I was still working at the Motorpresse 25 years ago, and you can bet the farm on it that they are…

Musk should have sold Tesla to the best bidder when the brand still flew. But then the stock value rose sky-high and is now several dozen times higher than the actual company would be worth. So everybody interested in purchasing the Tesla brand is now sitting on the fence biding their time while they watch Tesla die a…

It’s only a matter of time until the first serious hackers will unlock all the Gizmos in Standard Model 3s and offer their services on Craigslist.

This is a circular argument. Only people buy Teslas who like Teslas. So they would never, ever admit not to like Teslas, because they would disapprove of their own reason to like Teslas, which also owes a lot to the admiration of others for Tesla owners. But people who don’t own Teslas aren’t positively prejudiced for…

125 cc = no torque to speak of whatsoever. They may look cool, but on the road both will sound like the squeezed-out rattlers they both are. For minimum usable torque on the road you need at least 400 cc. Below that, the red line on the tach becomes your power band.

The Tesla Y is not a SUV, but a small, Toyota Prius-like Sedan with marginally higher ride heigth. I think that with the Y Tesla tried to enter a new, promising market niche on the cheap and failed badly. The sales of the Model 3 are slogging in some places already. But the Y has the chance to become the proverbial…

These “OEM Ferrari dust caps” which James May mentions are to have at any gas station for 99 Cents apiece...

This news has a certain ring to me. It goes like “bo-ring”...

These GT Le mans race cars have ALB, ESP all all the other electronic gizmos without which in their cars Millennials won’t even leave their garage anymore today. So yes, it was a great save, but it was the electronics which saved Blomqvist.

1st Gear: a. It must be a pain in the ass to work for Elon Musk due to his erratic decision making. b. Cutting back on dealerships may save Tesla costs near term, but will certainly cost them dearly later, because many folks are still “haptics” and want to touch and test ride a car prior to doling out tenths of…

Well, that’s the good old american way of manufacturing cars, isn’t it? It should give patriotic Tesla car owners that warm, fuzzy feeling of being treated just like their parents were 50 years agoalready by GM, Ford and Chrysler, when they picked up their brand-new, factory-faulty cars at the dealership.

Well, if you do things like THIS - quote: “Alan Ochoa worked at Tesla’s Fremont plant in California for four years. He was laid off recently along with his entire department in quality control, many of whom were also long-time employees. “I have no idea how they expect to run without us,” said Ochoa.” - things…

Smartphone pics, taken on Porsche’s own pre-production line. Somebody will lose his job over these pics.

The Coronado is the most fascinating car I never want to own, ever.