This is pretty clearly a move to target China - their sales haven’t been amazing there, but showing a feature that has a massive impact on owners will get them a lot of interest.

Yep! That’s the other of the two that were there.

You mean sitting in the trailer that had a fifteen foot tall portrait of Niki Lauda? Very subtle, that.

I saw several 904s - there was one in the Porsche historic booth, and another that I saw in motion.

Hey! They finally changed the stamping so for the doors. Only took twenty years.

The reason the Deltawing’s cockpit isn’t different from a normal prototype is because it uses the tub from an Aston Martin LMP! The rest of the car is radically different, but the tub was an existing design - which simplified crash testing.

Given how great the other MQB-based cars have been, this might be the premium midsize SUV to beat in the next few years.

Not only is the Fulton Skyhook actually used to retrieve special forces and clandestine personnel, this B-17 has its own backstory. At the time of filming, it was owned by the CIA, and actually used on real missions. The movie career was just a cover.

A fun fact about the pre-credits sequence is the way in which they “revealed” the new Bond. The two stuntmen hired to play other (soon-to-be-former) 00 agents resembled Roger Moore and Sean Connery, the two major previous Bond actors. Only after they’re killed off does the camera show Timothy Dalton’s face.

From a casual reading of summaries of the NTSB report, it seems as if the feather was unlocked immediately after the pilot called out Mach 0.8. This seems suspiciously sound-alike to the abort speed before which the feather must be unlocked - Mach 1.8

There’s a mysterious electric car startup that might be a perfect fit for someone of this pedigree – Faraday Future. It’s jut emerged from stealth, but has a very spare website and hasn’t said anything about their future product. In fact, the big Californian electric car company (Tesla) also has an executive who left…

The %-of-GDP statistic isn’t really a good comparison – even if it is helpful as a frame of reference – for a few reasons. Compulsory military service means that somewhere north of 6% of working Israelis are employed by their defense department, compared to around 1% of Americans. Plus, their military is much more…

The problem here is that this theoretically covers the drivers when they’re not in public. Which is an overreach. While they’re at the track, in their fire suits, sure – tell them what they can or cannot say. But they shouldn’t have to watch their words at dinner.

Does anyone know what the unofficial record car is? I don't know the story of that run.

4 is a Toyota Will vi

Cutting old excursions. There’s a lot of the V-10 models sitting in junkyards with no frame/body damage.

This sharp angle aligning with the top of the grille recalls the 159/Brera/Spider styling element in all the right ways

Funny thing is, part of the ‘ring’s mystique is the fact that it is itself a public road, where anybody in an old VW Jetta can try and go around in under ten minutes.

I’m sure the story could be an entire post by itself.

I think they’re likely to poach an F1 test driver - there’s a lot of talent there, with seat time in actual F1 cars - and, more importantly, superlicense eligibility. They might also recruit an IndyCar driver - Ryan Hunter-Reay is my guess, mostly because he’s both American and eligible.