I'm counting 8 right there, but there's several more on horseback once the whole rig is under way 😁

That’s interesting- is there a source for global car sales per car type?

Well, some folk manage to hang on to their bling. This is how parliament is opened every year by HRH King Alexander in the Netherlands:

It’s not a run thing by any stretch. I can see a manual 718 actually work out better in the metal and in the real world.

TBH, since both China and Europe are larger markets, Alpine can live without the US. I'll give you the manual, though.

Not sure I’d agree. Anyone in the market for a 718 last year might well have either a) delayed the purchase in order to sample a A110 first or b) pre-ordered an A110 for delivery in 2019 at the earliest. In either case, it’d be fewer sales for Porsche, without massive A110 sales.

Well, they’ve only just started production- the configurator hasn’t been finished yet, and the sales channel is in the processes of being ramped up. But wouldn’t you hang back until you’ve sampled both the 718 and the A110 before ordering either? 

Commiserations. But I think you can see how it wouldn't do much good to 718 sales elsewhere...

With regard to those disappointing 718 sales:

It’s the Michelin Milles Pattes (‘centipede’)- a Citroën DS that has been somewhat modified into a mobile truck tyre lab. Inside is a rig to stress test truck tyres at speed. The whole thing is powered by two small block chevy v8s: one for the truck tyre, the other for all the rear wheels.

It makes sense, but historically, this feels odd: all of Citroën’s greatest hits were made and or designed when it was owned by Michelin, from the Traction Avant to the CX.

FWD BoF minivans are automotive unicorns, for sure, but I have a feeling that there might be a couple in China, and possibly Japan.

Maybe the problem with the new 7 series’ kidney grilles isn’t so much the size as the shape?

1. In the most manual mode, at what points will the PDK shift itself / override your gear choice?
   

AA? Yeah, no. We don’t need your biggest tow truck, I don’t think.

No, Toyota, we haven’t forgotten the promised third sports car

That scratching sound you hear is Renault engineers furiously taking notes for the next Espace.

And a flagon or two of nice Sake. Or Shōchū, even.

My first thought too: if this guy rocked up to Narita carrying heat, he'll walk into the Mother Of All Sense of Humour Failings.

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