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.

I beg your pardon, but this is not correct. I am a German, and can assure you that it’s not the “Team Trump” which we were treating with the disdain they deserved, but the whole of US-american politics and politicians. Take note: The Russians and us are living on the same continent, while the USA is situated 4000…

Not a particularly pretty car? This car is a GODDESS on wheels! (Although the designer who talked Alfa Romeo into using light-brown hide seat covers throughout their model range during those days still ought to be legally shot!)

The V10-engine of the Lexus (Toyota) LFA is also a Yamaha engine. It’s de facto a civilized, stroked Yamaha V10 Formula 1-engine, which was built by the same engineers and technicians, on the same machinery and using the same tools as they did for creating the F1-engine.

Megatron was a BMW-Formula 1 engine based on WORN four-pot BMW 02-series saloon car engines, which were of cast iron. Several 100.000 kms of driving cured the iron and relieved all the stresses incurred during the casting process. Insiders also state that BMW race engineers would reheat the stripped cases in an oven…

2nd gear: Gee, I am always wondering what will be happening to all those autonomously driving (driven?) cars once the GPS satellites they so eagerly depend on would evolve a glitch, or would even fail altogether. Also, folks seem to ignore that there are electronic devices which are able to mask the original GPS signal…

I would love to give this very informative and well-written story a “two thumbs up” (read: a star), yet there is no provision for this. What’s up?

I suppose it’s metallised British Racing Green RAL 6005

The trick for a happy marriage to an Alfa Romeo for a real gearhead is to buy two of the same model (which should be doable at the present depreciation). So even if one breaks, you will still have the second one to date - err, to drive you to work, run your errants with etc., etc - or at least you should, kind of,…

Contrary to what you may believe, this “torpedo” is, in fact, an unmanned, autonomous drone which was designed not to devastate coastal cities (a fairy tale which is only being promoted to instill fear in the US-population living in coastal areas) but to sneakily follow US aicraft carrier groups and blow them out of…

Really two drivers per car? To my knowledge, TCR races don’t feature driver swaps during the race. At least in in the TCR Europe series and in the WTCR it’s one driver per car.

Or just go to Youtube and wait until somebody uploads a full copy of the race for free, which usually won’t take longer than a few hours after the race has  finished...

You asked - quote: “Do you think Cadillac has run out of time, like our buddy Bob Lutz seems to believe?” Probably so, but if so, it’s all because of GM’s own making. Just recently, Cadillac began to gain traction over here in Europe, because especially their ATS-V sedans and ATS-V coupés have been acknowledged as…

Well, maybe that’s because has done their math properly. Latest updates show that there are about 1.2 BILLION passenger cars in the world today.

“And this year’s Darwin Award goes to...” Those internet-kids from the Generation X-Box need to learn that the real world is not GTA, before they are let loose on our streets. I recommend respective courses and questions during the theory driving test. 

1750 hp? Never ever. Why? Show me the radiators to cool the excessive heat of the engine down. It took Bugatti YEARS to develop a cooling system for the 1500 hp Chiron, and they only JUST shoehorned enough radiators into the bulky Chiron body to make it work. And the Tuatara is much smaller than the Chiron. 

Enjoy!

Those Simca 1000s in their Rallye 1- and later Rallye 2-iterations were far from being scrappy. They weighed only about 700 kgs and came with 85 hp (Rallye 1) and 95 hp (Rallye 2) from the factory. You could buy them like that from the Simca dealer in your town. And those hp-figures were just the beginning. Serious ral…