Or the snakes, or the crocs, or the oppressive heat...

Blockheads didn’t blame Bowyer. They just noted the baseless assumptions in your original post.

The rule here in Australia is "stay with the car". Most of the people who die here in the outback after their cars break down so do when they leave the vehicle to go and get help. Such a pointless, needless thing to happen.

They’re not cheap, but euroschirm makes a good umbrella for this purpose:

It’s pretty cool, yeah.

True. It certainly works well for visors as well.

It’s the upcoming Alpine R5. A hot-hatch version of the new Renault R5 EV, using the traditional Renault Sport philosophy of putting a big motor in a little car (the standard one will come with a 134 bhp motor, while this one will have a 215 hp motor from the Megane EV, and wider track to fit it). It’s also going to…

Dammit is right. I see a few of them driving around here in Australia, and they look damn good - who doesn’t want a WRX wagon, right? But no manual. It's almost worse than not getting them here at all - they're so close to being awesome, except for that metaphorical and literal weak link.

Want to own and actually have some chance of owning? This little beast:

The concealment panel can be made of much thicker material - it doubles as a tiny barricade in "Mobile Fortress Mode" or some such other silly name.

About ten years ago, McLaren were talking up the possibility of ultrasonic transducers in the windscreen which eliminated the need for a squeegee wiper, but it evidently never went anywhere:

The Levorg doesn’t come with a manual transmission either. Even worse, it’s a CVT *spits*.

Move really fast and break everything?

As far as massive impact partners go, planets must be right up there...

That’s a very good point - cars insulate you much more effectively from the outside world than they used to, and the effect is amplified in high-riding vehicles (the ground doesn’t appear to rush past as quickly), and it’s very easy to travel at higher speeds than you think you are. I’ve got an old MR2 (not too much…

Ah, no worries. The vast majority of tests involve the vehicle being smashed into a barrier at a given speed, so it’s an easy idea to get stuck in your head.

Shitty wobbly single-sided channel-locks are awful. Good ones (i.e. Knipex ones) are damn handy.

Absolutely - behaviour (risk compensation in particular) has a significant effect on collision risk. I suspect (without having searched out the studies) that the likelihood of being involved in a collision is higher for people in giant SUVs and trucks than it is for people in small cars. Partly because the people…

The sled is used in side impact testing, so it’s testing the side impact structures (vulnerability to deformation, the way the side airbags work, et cetera) more than the tendency of the target vehicle to be punted across the floor by the test sled.

An argument for the Civic (and therefore, by proxy, against the Alto Works):