Exactly. It’s pure speculation, and I am hoping for a collapse in the bubble so that 1) I might have a chance of buying a car that I want (anything really, the whole market has gone nuts) and 2) the schadenfreude will be oh so sweet.

And you can recover energy every time you brake.

I can imagine a Bond Villain submerging into shark-filled waters while his guests were on the deck just to prove a point.

“What happened to the first two Super Servants?”

This looks quite similar to a phi-power motor (they’re axial flux motors), which would also be well-suited to a bike. 20kg (44lb), 270mm (11") diameter, 95mm (4") depth, and peak power of 155kW/200hp for 60 seconds dropping to 90kW/120hp nominal.

Agreed on all points. Webber, like Ricciardo, also received his honour for his charity work as well as his motorsport achievements (“distinguished service to motor sport as a competitor and ambassador, and to the community through fundraising and patronage of a range of medical and youth support organisations”). I…

So it’s less an issue of whether Tesla wants to manufacture a cheap car, more an issue of what a cheap car is (specifically how much a cheap car costs) by the time that Tesla manufactures one.

No, I’m saying that they’re not going to release a car that’s cost-competitive with a mid-priced compact car any time soon. Their earliest launch dates for their announced models (Roadster, Cybertruck and Semi) have slipped by 3 years at least for the Roadster, 2 years for the Cybertruck and 3 years for the Semi. The…

A normal reaction, to be fair.

The two-eyed one-horned driving purple people fucker belongs to the world! Why won't you share!?

That’s exactly my point. Hence the reference to inflation. I don't think that Tesla will bring a "cheap" car to market until a "cheap" car is more expensive than $25K.

Because as much as their manufacturing costs will go down, inflation will continue, and a “$25K car” may well be a “$30K car” by the time they bring it to market.

And Jack Brabham pushed his car over the line to fourth place at Sebring in 1959, winning the World Championship in the process (though to be fair i think that he would have taken the championship whether he finished or not).

It’s not to slow progress, it’s to allow the engine manufacturers the ability to concentrate on developing their 2026 engines. It's not the first time that there has been an engine freeze in F1 either - the V8s were frozen from the start of 2007 all the way to the end of that formula in 2013.

he design from the front wheel arches back is more attractive than the T.50, but it’s rather let down by the nose, which has some of the awkwardness of the 458 (and SP12 EC, along with the aforementioned Aperta) about the shape of the ‘grille’. The wonderfully low scuttle of the T.50 looks far sleeker, though i…

Exactly. It’s trivial to implement a thriving market of peer-to-peer selling. But they don’t actually want to give people the opportunity to sell things they no longer want, because they want people to buy them direct from Ubisoft themselves (especially because the marginal cost of creating each item for sale is…

The comparison isn’t entirely fair. Camacho listened to the smartest guy in the room.

An AM is the third-highest (or second-lowest) honour (above an OAM, below an AO or an AC).

Your response brings to mind a couple of questions:

Pickup truck *buyers*, or pickup truck *users*?