And you are correct. Shipping pallet is the current benchmark. It’s the wrong benchmark but it is the benchmark. The other benchmark is total vehicle length less than 6 metres because very few private garages are much longer than this.

If Jag are calling theirs the E-Pace (can’t help thinking Espace though) then would I be right in suggesting that Land Rover will be calling theirs the Range Rover Velar Sport? RRVS!

Back in 1998, my Land Rover Defender’s 300Tdi engine decided to eat its own timing belt (it had apparently been incorrectly tensioned when it was fitted).

So what? More people is not the prerequisite for more respect of place. Respect should be the same everywhere.

Yes. Citroens are brilliant in a way that says German cars made by Italians to a French design with English components. No question.

...and that’s fine. This was none of those things. Mitchell Street has nothing much in common with Times Square except that conceptually they are much the same...how do you reckon Mr Gordon would go with doing donuts in Times Square on a random Friday night based on the permission of a couple of security guards?

There’s uncool and there’s fucking stupid. This was more of the latter.

It’s going to be a small five (+2?) seater electric van. Much like any other 5 seater hatchback. Yet it’ll have the Volkswagen Tax and the Electric Car Tax added to the package.

More than likely.

Been in and on the edge of the water industry for quite a while. But not in America. Limited familiarity with the Flint situation.

Neutral: Cheese and sexual service providers. America needs cheering up.

How could anyone NOT be interested?

Meanwhile, once upon a time in a land down under...

Maybe that’s what the hole in the front is for?

Yep. Someone at BMW took a thumbnail sized picture of 1 series hatchback, inserted it into a Powerpoint and stretched it to fill the slide but squashed it to leave room for some text. Some other BMW peanut saw it and thought ‘seems practical’ and suddenly we have this...

Oh...a liftback. It’s not a hatchback and it’s not wagon and it’s not a sedan but a mix of all three so it’s all compromise. Well done, BMW.

How much advertising time could you buy on all the broadcast platforms for Indycar for US$1.8 million? One laps worth? Two? Ten?

I’d spend the coin getting your current seats re-padded and sculpted. Or see if you can find a TMI reproduction out there on CL.

Until the GT sneezes.

Any particular reason why you couldn’t get into Range Rover’s instead? I have a particularly broken lovely almost running interesting 2 door Classic that needs a new home. Of course you might have to move to Australia but every deal should have an upside.