What’s odd about this story is that he was stopped by police rather than just “pinged” by an automatic camera, and sent a ticket in the post. The police would have had plenty of grounds to accuse the guy of dangerous driving.

I hope somebody with bad taste and lots of money buys it off BMW and butchers it back to Elvis spec.

Falcon 9 could lift it...that would make an impressive Superbowl ad.

It’s almost the entire English experience in a single video.

Correct. Emergency brake assist is quite common these days across a lot of brands, and is definitely fully legal. Describing it as a separate emergency brake assist system says “Hey guys, this could have happened to any of a dozen different car companies - don’t blame our autopilot!”

If you’re going to option it up to $140k, then it’s not so much of a jump considering the big t Turbo comes with all of the toys.

I’m confused. If all you’re going to do is drive really fast in a straight line (which the car is designed to do), why would you mess around with the suspension geometry?

Any old car you leave for two weeks at a time and then only drive for ten minutes, will be unreliable. Trust me, I have experience.

In my case above the person was a douche already, I thought I had made that clear. If Tesla can pull off a light SUV/crossover bus (it’ll be AWD anyway, with some ground clearance) and…

Downhill would have been pretty scary, for sure...

I’m not so certain. Picture the scene. You’re successful doing whatever the hell it is that people do in LA, and you live somewhere in Orange County. You have five cars in the garage, and your whole impossibly beautiful family loves to surf. It’s only 10 minutes from your house to the beach, but you need somewhere to…

Nope. for a long time “Zero/Zero” ejector seats have been available, which work at zero altitude and zero speed. The ACES II seat fitted to lots of USAF jet will even work if the plane is inverted, providing it’s more than 140ft above the ground.

There are a huge number of reasons why widebodies are falling out of favour. Principal among them in my view is a move from a “hub and spoke” model to a “point to point model”. In times past you might fly from your home airport to a hub on a narrowbody, then switch to a 747 for an intercontinental journey, and then…

Hopefully, in the next 12 months Ferrari will “innovate” a polycarbonate aerodynamic windscreen.

But the whole point of testing a vehicle like this would be to find out how it would operate in real life - with a box on the back and with a heavy load in that box. Running with no payload or no payload capability is a bit pointless if you want to understand whether it will be any good as a truck.

I’m going to cry BS here. Mercedes have made an odd choice with this truck - this is the rigid (non articulated) version, but it doesn’t have a box on the back for putting goods in.

The F-Type is I believe built on a shortened XK platform, which itself is apparently based on a modified version of the XJS platform. As a result there are a lot of compromises in there. We have to remember that Jaguar is still a fairly small brand in comparison to the big German companies, and can’t go splashing…

That was for qualifying, I guess. It used to be a lot more exciting back in the 90s - special tyres, screaming engines, and a format that made for (in my view at least) more excitement - 12 laps per driver in any desired combination over the hour, which usually meant 4 runs (out, fast and in laps), and some very high…

I agree completely.

All of those cars are on a public road - do you normally wear a crash helmet on the freeway?

The mistake people make in touristfahrten is that they think they’re racing. It’s not racing, it’s just driving quite fast along a country road. As a result, the rule of country road driving applies - “stop in what you can…

If Tesla built trailers too I’d expect motors on all the axles. That way you can use regenerative braking even with a really heavy load, as well as getting awesome traction and torque for climbing hills.