Ironic that Ford are now buying back into the team that was such a mess under their ownership.

“What will they do in 2026? At best build a PU for a less than top tier team?”

It’s not really hollowing out the Alpine brand. If it is then they did that long ago with the original R5 Alpine:

The front of that render looks like an updated 34 (not a bad thing). The rear looks oddly like a 35 mixed with an F355 (again no bad thing).

It’s not necessarily an end to fun Renaults - there’s a planned Alpine version of the upcoming R5 EV that looks promising:

The Apex looks like it’s a cab sav blend (Bordeaux describes the region rather than the grape varietal - most of the wines referred to as Bordeaux are blends of primarily Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Cabernet Franc) :)

Or you can push the person people who is driving you crazy overboard instead.

If it’s on YouTube it might be attractive to an American audience, and in turn get that audience more invested in the series. That would be a sensible target for Supercars given they’re basically running American cars from next season onwards.

As an antidote to the use of these drones in advertising, there’s this:

The C6 with the 570 hp biturbo V10 was a bit less subtle (the C6 was more aggressive-looking than the C5), but still looks restrained enough to be a sleeper:

“Vanishing Point" certainly makes sense as a name for the last of the line.

Because the manufacturing costs in Australia would have meant selling every single one at a loss. 

Australia can't trade vehicles with the US, they can't be produced cheaply enough in Australia to sell profitably in the US. Vehicle manufacturing is finished in Australia. Trying to make wholesale changes to the road infrastructure and changing everybody's driving habits in pursuit of it is a pipedream.

It does look an awful lot like them, yeah. Seems to work quite well too in that application.

A Veyron is producing around 750 kW in useful power, but its energy consumption at top speed (assuming the touted 5.3L/min fuel consumption figure is correct, and that fuel has 34.2 MJ/L energy content), is very close to 3 MW. So the heat rejection rate, assuming the cooling system is sized to allow approximately…

2005+ from what I can see (based on a couple of forums, and on checking prices of the few available for sale here), so you can get it a bit earlier than you thought!

That’s for an earlier 4-speed one, yeah. Though 2005+ models with the 6-speed can be found for a under $16.5K USD (if you aren’t fussy about colour - I would not be that happy with a white one for example). Not that I'm in a position to buy one for fun, but it would be a cool car to tour around in (fuel economy…

The forefather of the LFA.

I’m seriously tempted to buy one of those - they’re not even that expensive here in Australia (you can pick up a G50 with the wool interior for the equivalent of $13K USD).

He wasn’t wrong about Balestre either...