More to the point, this plant was already in trouble because Jaguar are stopping production of engines there (a holdover from PAG). This is the second reduction of manufacturing at Bridgend and has quite a lot to do with efficiency (it’s not even Ford’s most efficient UK engine plant). Brexit is quite probably a…

I once saw an Aston Martin One-77 driving on the street in my town. I couldn’t quite compute what I was looking at.

My understanding was that the Queen Mother didn’t approve of Camilla and made Charles marry someone with good breeding. The whole thing was a shitshow all round, and ended badly for a lot of people.

Which is probably why the word “we” was employed, rather than “everybody”.

I was a fan of such things when I was young too, but I found Mario is Missing rather disappointing - mainly because only a few of the cities on the world map were featured in the game. But on the plus side it does prove how tall he is.

Rear wing height, I think - the wing is about the same height as the fin on those cars, but not on this year’s F1.

If they’d done it properly they would have cut to an interior shot of the Duke boys screaming “YEEHAAAAAAAH” right at the point the GIF finishes, and then the car would definitely have landed safely on all four wheels.

Envy and good finance deals mainly. $200 a month will get you into a brand new car.

Ah, but all Audis (for a very long time) have been front engined, so putting a variant of that face onto a mid engined car didn’t quite work.

The Pontiac Aztek is a lifestyle crossover from before people knew what one of those was. As it turns out it was just too far ahead of its time.

I guess this makes sense really. Their competitors are going for stupid numbers of SUVs (BMW X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6)(Audi Q1, Q2, Q3, Q5, Q7)(Mercedes GLA, GLC, GLE, GLS, G) so they need to keep up.

I’d guess the new Bentley Bentayga has made them think they need to move the proper Range Rover more upmarket as well,…

Ah, but the point is that the new Volvos are extremely Volvo-y, in a solid, calming and elegant way. Geely allowed Volvo to be Volvo, and hopefully would allow Lotus to be Lotus.

To put the healthcare numbers in context, 10% of the US defense budget is $60bn, give or take. That provides healthcare to 2 million people.

Here in the UK our NHS costs us around $120bn to cover 60 million people.

We call it the Typhoon here in the UK and don’t even mention the Eurofighter part. We also keep repainting them in “throwback liveries”, which probably doesn’t help.

IIRC it’s not known as the Typhoon officially in Germany.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/163092.stm

It turns out that people weren’t buying it for the articles then.

I wonder whether this is even a Jaguar E-Type - legally speaking. It’s possible to buy a replacement tub for an E-Type:
https://www.martinrobey.com/downloads/BODYSHELL.pdf

We don’t use it with abandon! It’s the worst possible swear word of all the swear words here (and we have a lot of them), and it’s definitely considered to be misogynistic.

If you start throwing it around in polite society here, people will be very upset. They won’t tell you they’re upset, but they will be.

Nice to see them stick with a normally aspirated screamer. One of the advantages of selling millions of Priuses to lower their fleet average emissions I guess.