Can’t speak to HD’s development, but our radar-cruise equipped S205 Benz has run down its share of floating plastic bags when on radar cruise so I think the tech’s sorted on that front.

...and there it is. That team has also won championships when properly funded. Renault said at the time of the takeover from Genji it was going to take a few years to rebuild the team’s capabilities after they got run into the ground by the previous owners.

It’s a brave call but a well founded one - top line up with…

My wife follows F1 now and I’d say Rush was a factor in her starting to take an interest in it.

Look, I’m not saying this is the greatest motorsport crash video of all time, but I think it’s pretty clear this is the greatest motorsport crash video of all time.

It’s the same percentage level of dumb, it’s just that there are more people, therefore more dumb, and the near ubiquitousness of smart phone ownership means just about everyone has a video camera and internet access now, so the dumb is more visible.

Tell me more about the touchpad and the infotainment system- with the set up in our S205 (yes, S, it’s an Estate) the wheel and its ‘joystick’ set up. combined with the awfulness of the touchpad means you’d never, ever use the touchpad.

At the time it was one of the few GP’s I’d watch live (the joys of living in Australia watching F1) as it was usually over quickly, but yeah, majorly weird feel to the event, with patchy news about Zanardi (still pretty early days of the internet) compounding the pall.

I always took the CLA as Benz testing the market for sedans in that space.  I lusted after a CLA45 Shooting Brake but the load area’s not quite there, ended up with a nicely specc’d C250 Estate

We have some dealings with Tesla. 1 and 2 on the Risk list for them:

If a Life L190 can run at Goodwood, Lamborghini can restore this

\runs off to get phone, even though he has nowhere to go

Maybe Toyota’s WEC team are hiring for next calendar year...

That could work, if you want to make it a little design feature. Challenge is to get a lens out far enough to cover blindspots without intruding too far into the airflow. I’d have thought some sort of fish-eye lens tucked into the bottom-forward corner of the front window with the interior side of the mounting being…

Aren’t you just replicating the central rear view functionality doing this? What about vehicles in your blind spot (i.e. on your side, but just behind you)?

Spot on. On the run back from Vegas to Laguna Niguel it was immediately apparent the engine/CVT combo didn’t much care for highway running, especially in cut and thrust traffic. We took the 1 route (Pac Highway) back up to LAX from Laguna and it was impressive how much running on battery only the car could be coaxed…

We had one as a rental in a recent trip to LA/Vegas and colour aside (ours was red) this thing is an exact match.

The FIA’s presentation on the halo indicated their review of the effect of the halo’s on Bianchi was ‘neutral’ which I took to mean it would likely have had no effect either positive or negative - Bianchi’s injury was a diffuse axonal injury (similar to Roland Ratzenberger’s) from the stop, rather than a direct head…

Ford never owned more than a 33.4% stake in Mazda (which was a controlling stake), which was in ‘95 post-Asian crisis. Ford started selling its stake off in 2008 with the GFC, down to 3% or so in 2010, and sold out of its shareholding completely in late 2015.

As to your other stuff - well, like, that’s just your…

That would mean a lot of angry 86 owners. Otherwise, yeah.

The car pictured was actually a 2 litre 4 - Neal Bates took the JDM version of the IS200, the Altezza (which is a bit more aggressive than the Lexus version in terms of gearing and suspension), and swapped the badges.