Nice pics. I wonder if, and when, we’ll see a mid-ship road-going 911.

Is the platform/chassis brand new?
Is the interior finally on par with the price?
Does it understeer if driven hard? Is it balanced?
Thanks.

4th Gear: of course the governments of France and Germany approve the deal, it’s bad for PSA but hey, who cares, we have Mario Draghi who will pump more money! France is worse than Italy (where I come from) in public involvement in private affairs (albeit with less corruption, or so it seems). And the automotive…

Opel makes good enough cars, but the fact is, a VW, a Japanese or a Korean car is better, in the eye of a general European buyer.
I think PSA (which already has a profitability problem) is totally insane and GM cannot thank them enough.
Opel totally lacks any strategy whatsoever (Corsa, Mokka and Astra are the only…

Also, in England...
Loto Elisa, Trionfo Sputafuoco (Triumph Spitfire)

Great, we’ve found the other one!
Tell your friend that he has a $400k Ferrari in his garage (hope he paid less than that for his car)!
http://www.rmsothebys.com/ve15/villa-erba/lots/2007-ferrari-599-gtb-hgte/1073618
BTW, “one of just ten European-delivery examples equipped with a manual transmission”

Sorry to shatter your dreams, but only 2 (yes, two) 599 with manual transmission and HGTE package are in existence, and one has been sold during the Villa D’Este Concours 2 years ago (I was there). As per manual 599's without the upsaid package... good luck finding one at reasonable prices.

Couldn’t agree more.
If you want to see it, go to Arese, NE of Milan, to the official AR Museum, which is small but with all the needed stuff. Besides, it’s very close to Malpensa airport.

Glacier Horizon - Pete Davis & James Banbury

As much as I don’t like the Veyron, I love this car. I was at the Bugatti booth last march in Geneva and it has a presence and a certain restrained aggressiveness feel which, with some nice detais inside and outside, make you think you’re in front of something remarkable.
For now, we got this:

Do you want a brand new, no-nonsense, vintage, invincible SUV?
Ask Toyota Tunisia (or Toyota Nigeria, or Toyota Australia) to sell you a Land Cruiser 70 series.
Or, if you happen to own a NGO, go to Toyota Gibraltar and choose one among the MANY versions available.
Check their websites, they’re amazing pieces of hardware.

Just read “In search of politics” by Z. Bauman. He described the social networks (and our present society) way before their existence.

Aston Martin has announced a 25-car (re)production run of the DB4 GT.
Yes, they are making a new old car again. Just sayin’...

My parents’ now oldest cat was found in the engine bay of my mother’s car (a Fiat Bravo), 13 years ago. The cat is still with them :)

Makes sense. He’s young, rich, won a championship after 10 long years in F1.
Many racing drivers never manage to attain that.
Barrichello, Patrese, Massa, Coulthard, Webber and Berger raced more in F1 than Rosberg, but never won a title.

Amazing. They’re so cool, Tarantino could film a movie in it.
Like, “Faster Ultra Van, kill kill!”

That’s a Loomis truck... uhm... I live close to the biggest gold foundries in the world (they process two thirds of all the gold produced in the world) and the same company does the transportation here... I hope that all their employees are this dumb, I may stumble upon some gold buckets!

A VERY old BMW 320i E36, stripped for VLN (notice the aluminium battered and riveted on the door), then decommissioned from racing, rented by me for Touristenfahrten purposes on the Nordschleife, back in 2007 (i made several trips to the Green Hell in those years, like 5 or 6 weekends, I even had a Jahreskarte, or…

Still, they have a good excuse to make a road-going version of this car (“911 GT1”, plain and simple) price it like a 918 and sell it like hot cakes.