Top Gear had a writing staff, and they would shoot around a narrative for most segments even if stuff in between start and an end isn’t dictated word for word. This isn’t even a secret. A segment working around a “shocking” reveal an EV might shit its battery life and engine output under continuous heavy load (a…

I mean that’s bit of a stretch because we actually don’t know if the Lutheran Reformation or Henry Mk. VIII happened in the cars universe, even if the Queen Bentley of England is strongly reminiscent of QE2 and most of the movie’s world exists in parallel to ours. There just isn’t a solid evidence in the movies to be…

Do they have to be manned? 

It’s not that they don’t test at all. Even Koenigseggs and Bugattis have to be crash tested. It’s that some manufacturers do their own tests and we don’t get to see the same level of detailed results as a federal agency test would provide.

*Divorced man working on a robot wife in his shed*

My answer is more of a genre: Hollywood stars plugging station wagons built by non-American manufacturers. Bonus points if they’re inexplicably sexy and sensuous. See: Anthony Hopkins & 1999 Honda Avancier, Kyle MacLachlan & 1993 Subaru Impreza 5-door, Catherine Zeta-Jones & 1999 Alfa Rome 156 Sportwagon

I actually think Saturn Sky’s design aged worse, incidentally similarly to the Fiat 124, in that they’re both much fussier, angular designs compared to the originals.

Sure, so you stick on a horseshoe grille and a big EB badge somewhere and everyone will get it’s a Bugatti, but maybe it shouldn’t even matter.

Meh. It just looks like a warmed over Chiron after they’ve released a gazillion spin-offs and remixes of that design. Like Chiron: The Greatest Hits - general shape from the base Chiron, nose from the Mistral, rear end from the La Voiture Noire, and aero bits from the VGT and Bolide.

The Top Gear TV show is as good as dead. The show’s already caused two potentially life threatening injuries to two non-stunt/professional drivers since the revamped version started in 2002, but Top Gear brand still has the magazine business that churns out monthly issues and youtube content regularly: stuff that…

I just realized how much the Mustang reminds me of the MG X-Power SV from ~20 years ago. A ridiculously expensive road legal track toy equipped with a Ford V8 wrapped in widebody carbon fiber panels?

There are three Mustang GT3s already slated for Le Mans this year.

Yes. Specifically a bulbous rear end with a rigid mass protruding from it. This is downright elegant, what with the ridge on the bumper blending into the swage line parallel to the sill.

Man that is one awkward looking speeder.

I miss Donut Racing Show. 

I just want to know if this car was filed as a business expense.

flicks like ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning,’ which also had a particular focus on realism

Oh yeah they occupy an abandoned Sears parking lot that I pass in my commute. And the top level of a parking structure of a sleepy mall nearby. All flashing headlights in unison sometimes.

I’m obsessed with that man’s hubris more than his successes. Just greenlighting projects that VW has no business entering, like a Bugatti revival project that was built entirely around Piëch’s random demands based on neat theoretical numbers (1000hp/1000Nm of torque/400kph) that costs god knows how much, at least one…

That’s big, but I won’t be truly impressed unless it’s mounted transversely a la Cizeta V16T.