They’re starting to become more of a thing in Europe, for sure. They’re all across the Volkswagen Group vehicles, and a lot of Fords have them, just off the top of my head.

To be fair, F1 tracks need some variation - didn’t Ecclestone try to float an idea (pun half intended) of running some races on an artificially wet track? Admittedly, the idea was as popular as a fart in a spacesuit, but it was a sign of how desperate things got for a while back when Gollum was in charge.

No, they were talking out both sides of their mouth, because a short time after the above story was posted, they did an about-turn upon realising that alienating the entire LGBTQ+ community would cost them more in sales than pandering to an ultra conservative group. At this point, as the above article states, they…

Without wanting to appear cynical (ha!), but is this the same Ford?

We’ve got ‘em on the street where my most recent workplace was. It just appeared one morning and everyone was delighted!

Christ on a crystal meth binge… that’s fucking eye-bleachingly hideous. 

Was going to make the same point myself. Based on the quotes in the story, I’d have thought it was fairly obvious, but never let an opportunity to sensationalise a story, creating intrigue where there is none, pass you by!

If Hamilton wins championship number 8 this season, I think he’ll retire immediately. 

I’m not generally a Ford fan but I do read about the Flex on these pages with envy. 

Had to look elsewhere for the video as the embedded one wouldn’t play. The outcome of this accident really is a testament to the work done on safety of these cars and, possibly, the best advert yet for Halo AND the rollover protection in single seaters.

Right? Some extremely intelligent, talented people have put a lot of time into developing this stuff. Divine intervention played precisely no part.

My issue with halo was that it wouldn’t prevent certain accidents such as Felipe Massa’s incident at Hangaroring in 2009, which is cited as a reason for its introduction in the first place. The Indy solution would have, or at least significantly slowed the suspension debris to the point where it would have caused less…

And yet, they still aren’t ocean liners. 

Never heard of anything other than a passenger ship referred to as an ocean liner (even differentiating themselves from a cruise ship).

These aren’t ocean liners.

Isn’t the point of it to show consumers how easily it can be achieved, though? 

So my understanding from the article is that they took a completely built Mini, and removed and dispensed with most of the components in order to make it more sustainable while replacing them with new, once-off parts? That is the opposite of sustainable. 

The benefit of electrically adjusted steering/seats is that they have memory presets. When my wife drives my car, it takes me ages to get my manually adjusted setup just right. 

I like the car. It’s something you wouldn’t see on the streets where I live. I’d remove the wrap and replace the original wheels. I wouldn’t use the underbody lighting. With all that said, it’s still too expensive. 

No chance you’d hire someone who could work remotely from, say, Ireland?