People have rebadged every generation of Commodore with Chevy badges since at least the VT.

His response is remarkably sanguine. I guess he can't do much about it, so there's not much point in worrying.

That would be the other thing I might add. Though the speed-sensitive volume controls are pretty good now as well.

I’m pretty happy with all physical controls too, but I don’t mind the ability to link my phone to the car.

Basically all you need is what’s in a Lotus Exige:

I think you may have been just a teensy bit too subtle in your sarcasm here...

Between Quartararo seeming to wilt under pressure, the factory team’s dramas with brakes and the engine shenanigans, Yamaha really seemed to throw away a great opportunity to win all three titles.

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.