“I should not be made to suffer through iterations of Top Gear that can’t hold a candle to the original.”

Identical doesn’t come into the definition as far as I'm aware. How many have to be identical for it to count as mass production? How identical do they have to be?

So many angles. So many hips. It has more facets than the world’s largest cubic zirconia.

I immediately thought of the episode where Batman and Robin were trapped inside the giant hourglasses when I read your comment!

That sounds like a pretty enjoyable way of spending time in what could have been a less-than-ideal school location. I think it’s pretty clever of the teacher/whoever spoke to you to negotiate like that too, to be honest - it’s a much better solution for everyone than saying “no more paper planes”, because it puts…

Or dropping from a height, allowing negligible input of kinetic energy.

No amount of damage my pet could do to my car could pain me as much as the trip where they don’t come back with you.

Given how badly it went for them last time, there’s a big opportunity for redemption there, yeah.

I think that the approach this time (largely a hands-off sponsor, much like their approach with the development of the DFV) should work a lot better then the Jaguar years.

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: