Suggested narrative resolution: Bron bought a regular 918 like some kind of millionaire schlub, then in the time between the flashback and the island got mocked by one of his billionaire buddies who had the Weissach version and threw enough money at Porsche for them to fit some parts of the Weissach package to his own…

If being generous, one could make the argument that the kind of people who manage to drive moderate societal changes often make a lot of much bigger claims to give them the impetus and support they need. And then history glosses over the failures and most of the bullsh*t. Edison and Tesla infuriated a whole lot of…

Alas, we live in a world where building any vehicle for meaningful distribution requires vast capital expenditure, and VERY few are taking that risk for something genuinely odd.

To be fair, Marin state they have sold to the same company twice before and they did repaint the buses as required.

In Australia the Ioniq5 isn’t even available through dealers, direct online sales only.

I read that as being a follow up article, but you may be right.

Most generous interpretation is it’s applied in the spirit of Colin Chapman, as they are often either despec’d (adding lightness), mechanically simpler (eg. Manual only, more lightness and more engaging) or physically smaller (all the lightness!).

Yeah. Schumacher seems nice and I wish him well, but he didn’t have the same results as Piastri. He’s definitely got talent, but his name played a role as well.

In this instance I think it’s not necessarily a bad environment, but a poorly managed contract approach.

But why would they think it was running/idling rather than just parked and off?? I get that some drivers probably idle with engines on to keep A/C or heat running, but that’s pretty obvious via noise and exhaust. Neither of which would have been there. So they just...assumed the worst without checking?

To be honest, this seemed a perfectly natural reference of a car you wouldn't want to be doing this in. So finding the stranded Altima genuinely made me burst out laughing.

Since the car is for time attack, a decent driver should be able to manage the narrow power band (more easily than if racing door to door, etc), so outright power may be most effective for this specific application.

Polestar is in a grey area too, I’d suggest. The Polestar 2 platform is derived from a crossover (XC40?) and feels a lot like one when driving (door line is super high). Has a weirdly cut roofline and fractionally lower suspension, so not entirely in CUV territory, but not exactly a sedan either.

I’m sure Piastri felt a fair amount of obligation to Alpine, but you can’t go 2 years without a drive at this level.

This parallels my own thoughts on Vettel over the years, minus the signed flag.

Recognising that guessing people’s ages can be difficult, but when you’ve got a bunch of 12 year old running around your metal stamping facility, it does seem like someone might get a little suspicious and try to verify ages. This is of course, assuming someone cared and didn’t already know what was happening.

If this was an ad for his biography (to be clear, not suggesting it was), it was pretty effective. Because more than a couple of those single year summaries are bonkers enough that their must be a hell of a story behind each.

All these years I’ve considered original Knight Rider and action car shows of its generation to be hilariously unrealistic with their clearly sped up driving footage...

I think that was CarsRUs' point, that the active aero (ie. Fan downforce) allowed that power to be used so much more effectively.

Yeah, I run out of bravery/stupidity around 50mph/80kph. Only takes a gust of wind or an unseen bump and I don’t have the recovery skills of Sagan or MVDP. Or a vaguely competent 12 year old, if I’m honest.