Yeah, I jumped the gun a bit – it's early and this whole bespoke thing has been annoying for some time. I was thinking they were calling the engines bespoke to the customer, not bespoke for Aston Martin. It still reads more like made to measure, if you're looking at Aston Martin as a buyer and AMG as a tailor, as I…

The bespoke v8 engines, co-developed by Mercedes-AMG, will be for Aston Martin models, which currently have a less-than-stellar lineup of older engines derived from Ford and Jaguar Land Rover.

I want this Suzuki Mighty Boy:

NOt a ski hill, but it is a bus designed to run on ice and snow, so close enough.

(That's what she said)

Is this active aero, or just a trick of the light? The right and left flappy things look to be at different angles.

Ah, but women have none of those things, so it's a win-win situation.

Fast, sleek French coupé with the heart of an Italian? How could you go wrong?

Neither the Germans or the Japanese have changed their flag. The Nazi Flag was the political party's flag. Japan didn't have a political party beach then, but that 'fucking red dot' with the rays of the sun still has imperialistic overtones and most Japanese avoid it.

What? Putting a noun in front of Germany doesn't prove it's changed more than Japan has. Japan is now a democratic nation, which it wasn't before the war, and that hits me as a fairly major change.

The Japanese have issued formal apologies, quite a few of them in fact. The question is if they were sufficient. Well, that and some asshole politicians still denying the existence of comfort women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w…

And not every Japanese was part of the Rape of Nanking. My point is many nations have done some really shitty things, but you can't keep hating them after the fact, otherwise we start to collect prejudices and that's a hell of a collection to have.

I heard the Germans did some pretty bad things as well, but nobody in France is up in arms about buying BMWs because they're Nazi mobiles.

Speaking to GoAuto at the global unveiling of the sixth all-new iteration in 49 years, global powertrain boss Bob Fascetti revealed that Ford is exploring a number of alternatives for the iconic Pony Car. “We’re not looking at diesel at the moment, but given where we need to go with fuel consumption we are looking at…

It's the same thing we do when we're looking at engines though or the new IRS. When the new Z06 engine comes out most people are not going to be like, 'all i need to know is it has pushrods and a supercharger, lets not talk about the details of the engine.' For some people the draw to cars is engineering, for some…

Interior: 8/10

They can be saved. Also I want those SSR Mk2s so bad. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they'd probably even fit my hubs, but probably not, because nothing is 4x110.

Fuck it. You didn't die of dysentery so I'd say it was a pretty successful trip.

With this man as the head designer and Dave Coleman of Sport Compact Car magazine in their engineering department, Mazda NA seems to be on the road to somewhere awesome. I just hope they have enough money to take their cars along for the ride.

But who says Mazda properly? It's like a zen koan.