Let’s fire up the mighty Renault 4 Simpar.

It’s Leclerc ! Godamnit, FinKel, Leclerc !

I would post a photo of Triumph T509 but Kinja wouldn’t let me.

It’s a 5 liters Camaro, according to Walker and the Carscoops link, not a 5,7.

They seemed very concerned by keeping the wheels free of snow. They maybe feared that the tyres would become encrusted with too much snow.

You left this out from the original article, that explains the “re-education” part of Blair Publishing statement :

The first gen Ibiza was a Giugiaro design derived from a failed project for VW. And a "System Porsche" engine that was the main selling point in the ads at the time.

Parked on the sidewalk. Yes, that's a diplomat.

Yes, sure. And skills. Because money attract talent, and vice versa. That’s the euro way in sports. We do not have closed franchise and salary caps like the NBA or the NFL. It’s a meritocracy, ruthless capitalism.... It’s the same thing with soccer. Each year the two worst teams are out, the two best teams from the…

Here Peugeot is written in cursive writing. I don’t know if it’s peculiar to french, a capital P in cursive has a huge left “bowl”, and, in some variations, a vestigial right “bowl”. Here, it’s slightly exagerated, but not so much.

I’ll never forgive the Brabham team and BMW the steal of the 1983 championship, the first for a turbo engine, from Renault and Prost. They ran all season with an illegal fuel and should have been disqualified.

It would be agaisnt F1 ethos. It’s not a show, it’s a sport where the best are rewarded. It may result in boring races sometimes, but so be it. That’s the whole point of F1. And why it’s so fascinating, if you ask me.

When we talk about celebrated motors on here, they’re usually V8s or bigger.

The sound is great, for sure. But it has to be the most stupid exhaust placement ever, short of routing it through the glove box. It screams dyno queen.

Until the mid-80's, I think, GP racers push started their bikes and jumped on it side-saddle. Youth, these days, they got it easy...

Yes, it’s very common in europe. Most of the time the engine shut off when you’re stopped and in neutral, but some manufacturer are more agressive with an engine that shut itself as soon as the speed goes below 5 mph, and the clutch is depressed. which can be bothersome in stop and go traffic or at a busy intersection.

This is a terrible idea... As former Autolib (the Paris car sharing program, based on Bluecar, dead since 2018) customer I’m pretty familiar with the Bluecar.

In french too BMW, cars or bikes, are call béhèmes (phonetics for BM).

The 504 pickup was sold in France from the early 80's to the mid 90's (and in Europe) but it was less successful than the 404, which was everywhere in its days.

Count me in. F1 should be the pinacle of motorsports, ie an engineering competition. Even If that’s mean a team dominate the field because it got a technological edge. That always was the nature of the game and I like it like that.