Brilliant, you did it again. Love the graphic. I don’t know if it’s because I personally am (relatively) old and (absolutely) curmudgeonly, or if there’s seething resentment against the rich - I don’t think so, I’d still like to join their ranks although time’s running out unless my Lotto numbers come up - but since I…

It’s an ugly, ugly steering wheel. Immediately stood out to me. Doesn’t matter if it’s plastic or snow leopard hide, tis a horrid wheel.

Yesterday’s sheep worships today’s rhinoceros.

Wow, a carbon fibre F1 car is almost three quarters of a ton. Perhaps F1 technology does in fact make it into - increasingly corpulent - road cars!

Let’s see your YouTube vids then!

Could you keep up with her? I have intentions of driving the Nordschleife and I would be honoured and amazed, even after repeated outings - without going off at YouTube corner ideally - if I got within half a minute of her time. As far as I’m concerned she’s a great driver. And I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Sabine Schmitz is a goddess and a bloody brilliant driver. Just check out some of her VLN stints and driving random guys’ Porsches around the Nordschleife on YouTube! She knows every single tongue-pretzeling corner name! Sabine Schmitz will be brilliant on Top Gear. Her and Chris Harris. What a team! And the new guy.…

Thanks so much for answering mine, and probably most Jalops’ burning question of today: who is the new guy on TG? With @Harrismonkey and Sabine Schmitz already on board, and now this new, funny, erudite, eminently watchable guy, the new Top Gear is shaping up into something I can see myself very much enjoying…

I read your piece on Clarkson’s misguided rant about transgender kids and I thought, “Bravo, you get it, well done for speaking out!” And then I read this article and read the part about “a daydream of a milkshake” and thought I wished I could have written that, and then I watched the video, and then it hit me: YOU…

Brilliant as ever. If anyone should Carrie the Torch for improved SW holograms then it’s Jason Torchinsky at the Jalopnik. That said, I wouldn’t actually want to change it. It seemed acceptable in 1977 and now it’s just received lore.

Fiat Bravo, Torch!

Gord. Factory will be in Canada, eh.

I come to Jalopnik to read about cars, a subject that I’m interested in. Increasingly of late it’s seemed to me that I’m inundated with stories of motorbikes and militaristic bullshit that I’m not interested in. Why is this?

3,800 pounds? Nearly 2 tons for a sportscar? I think not!

FFS! Just posted a similar sentiment, without the image. You win, sir!

that would be federal “pound me in the ass prison”? #officespace

Top Gear Kazakhstan? I think this may be a prank of Borat, making him think he has a sheep-powered car: beats the previous donkey-pulled Renault.

Who the hell is the driver? He or she is millimetre perfect. I was expecting the car to slide into the bridge but nope! It’s nice to see that you can still get a car with a proper handbrake too.

I have to give you that one; seems to be a bit of a law on Jalopnik these days ;-)

Thanks for the great write-up Stef! I *knew* Porsche would take it but it was a bit of a gamble still. Congratulations to the Porsche team and bonza doo-dah band or whatever the Aussies say to Mark Webber!