Can you open the rear doors in a standard 7’ parking garage?

Here in Europe we get to park wherever the hell we like.

Is that actually a thing? Some guy once shouted at me for doing it in San Diego, I thought he was crazy.

I drive past a Mazda dealer on the way to work (I get stuck in traffic there most days) so I’ve spent a lot of time staring at the new MX-5. I can’t remember an angle that looked anywhere near as awkward.

It’s Quarry at Castle Combe. People crash there so often that there’s sometimes a traffic jam on the way to the tyre barrier. The problem with it is Avon Rise just before the corner - if you measured it, the best point to brake in most cars would be exactly at the crest if it was flat. Of course with the front wheels…

I think you’re right. I walked past him once in Cardiff - he is really, really tiny. He may actually besat on the same row as Prince Harry.

I have to say that this front overhang looks a bit too long, and the whole front end is bulky in comparison to the new MX-5. I wonder how much weight is hanging out in front of the axle? The intercooler maybe?

It’s standard to use feet when talking about aviation. Here’s the relevant ICAO guidance.

Not really. Alonso matched one of the Red Bulls in the speed trap, but we know that the Red Bulls are set up to have a low top speed. The only cars they beat were the Manors.

I found a photo.

I think I’d quite like it. Am I a bad person?

We cancelled that and the TSR2 at the same time, when a left-wing government came in. Technically, it was no great problem - the Harrier as is will exceed mach 1 in a shallow dive so the fundamentals were there - so all that was left was the engine, which was built and run on a test stand, and bolting it into a plane…

See this? It’s a Harrier, right? No. It’s the P.1154, a planned development of the Harrier. Note that it’s a bit bigger and a bit pointier than a Harrier, and importantly it has variable geometry inlets.

Pennsylvania’s got form for this. If it wasn’t for speaker Muhlenberg, you all would be speaking German. Maybe.

Technically speaking we’re still in the era of the slow-ass, filthy diesel. It’s just that it’s gotten real good at lying.

Good for Jenson I think. The Honda engine will not suddenly be good next year, and will likely be worse compared to this year, with Red Bull taking Ferrari engines. No point spending another year crawling around at the back and then getting let go.

He’s not a transcendent talent, but he’s certainly more than mediocre. I believe he’s the only F1 driver to have ever managed to get all the way from last place to first in a GP, in 2011 at Montreal. Special circumstances for sure, but a crap driver would have had no chance to pass the whole field.

Yeovil is an hour or so from my house! Before being awesome at helicopters, Yeovil used to have a big glove industry - so much so that the local football team is nicknamed the glovers.

It absolutely makes sense for a developing nation (and the IRB has special rules for those anyway), so I have no argument with that. But if you can beat South Africa, you should probably be trying to wean your national team off imported players.

This is something that goes right back to the very start of Rugby Union.