I mean, it was a very long way away. Even if you were bigger than average, it’s still really hard to see from 400,000 kilometres away.

That is to say a whole bunch of Yamahas at the top, the King of testing leading the timesheets, and Honda nowhere again. It's going to be interesting to see how Marc goes when he comes back...

I liked your one as well - it’s just a more personalised way of expressing the same sentiments. The Holmes quote is more declarative.

Exactly. That's one of the reasons the LFA is so damn cool - it's pretty well the apex of what Toyota could achieve in terms of sports car design.

I would honestly prefer an LFA to any current front-engine Ferrari. That car was a technical tour-de-force.

Per Yamaha’s own archival material, they developed sound processing tools to tune the system in the LFA, but the actual system was totally acoustic

Another variation on the quote is one by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr:

He could probably do it himself if he's still got some of Rush's special medicine stashed away.

Ah, but Erik is the editor...

“Makes you wonder if the SEC needs to start keeping an eye on Jalopnik for market manipulation.”

Important point here being that it was 45 in the shade and probably 80+ in the car. So the rat coffins weren't sitting in the danger zone, temperature-wise.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests you’re looking at about 16 times the charging rate. So you’d need a 2MW charger (assuming all else is equal), you’d need a battery capable of charging at about 12C, and the battery would have to have about twice the capacity (160kW.h vs the 80kW.h battery in the ID.4). So…

They were standard on Japanese cars, and I believe it was to do with a regulatory requirement. And yes, it’s “check mirror, exit car, adjust mirror, repeat”, unless you have a compatriot willing to adjust them for you.

The offset is apparently so that St Andrew's saltire isn't just a border for St Patrick's. Still looks odd.

Maybe they’re signalling that they’re in dire trouble?

Ah, the George Cross. Now there’s a flag that gets defaced a lot.

The Flag Code doesn’t actually say anything about flying the flag with the Union to the front on vehicles as far as I can see. Haas are displaying the flag in a manner consistent with military convention (DA PAM 670-1).

(Yes, I know this is humorous, but the Union Jack isn’t actually symmetrical...)

That’s a fair assessment. Though I'd contend that it’s still likely a larger segment of the market than it is anywhere other than Europe or Africa. Whether that's a failure is up to the observer I suppose.

Extremely high precision fuelling systems that were able to contravene flow rate restrictions without detection?