Australia.  The Magna grew up and became the Diamante, a few elderly examples of which I have seem stumbling around the streets of LA during my occasional visits there.

I’m a fucking long tail, muthafuckas!

...and clever Mitsubishi, too - late ‘80s and ‘90s they had some really clever packaging in their vehicles. I had an ‘88 Magna (think widened Sigma) wagon that had huge room for a compact wagon, and a ‘97 Mirage (basically the front half of CE Lancer, and was thusly nicknamed the Halfacar) that took ridiculous amounts…

Feel ya - first trip to LA, we went to visit the Endeavour exhibit at the Californian Science Centre. I found it quite emotionally overwhelming, and I couldn’t tell you why.

They may yet retain the name Sauber for the chassis, as it’s not clear if the F1 Commission has given its consent which they would need in order to retain the commercial rights, and with Sauber finishing eighth in the Constructors’ Championship last year that would be worth a significant amount of money.

I have a scale model of that car, even though I’m not a fan of Ferrari and it was an abysmal car that destroyed Ivan Capelli’s career, simply because of how it looks.

Yeah, but there’ll be international take up of that slack.  Plus I drink and live on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, so I would have forgotten.

Most people are lazy and/or bad drivers. Anything that mitigates this is to be welcomed in my books. I’d rather someone drop in their phone in fright as their car unexpectedly autonomously emergency stops a foot short of my rear bumper than have them text “just crashed OMG LOL” parked halfway into my wagon’s load…

Not saying you’re wrong (normal new model drop off, and economic conditions would tend to confirm), but given the rush to ramp up production, I’d be more going with production processes being streamlined now that numbers are ‘normalised’ and there isn’t the need to throw people at it any more.

280hp in a 1400kg or so rear drive sedan feels pretty unbase

Hey, we’re trying to deter these people

Could you imagine trying to teach a curmudgeonly old man how to drive a modern Range Rover? Of course you’d be trying to source exactly the same vehicle he’s been driving since the mid ‘00s. 

OMG the shut down has taken away that poor man’s moustache!

I took this thing to be two things:

Driving autonomy will continue to come in bits and pieces - you could argue it started with automatics, then ABS, and we’re continuing to see features like lane keeping assist, radar cruise, autonomous emergency braking and self parking coming through and trickling down to lower end makes. We’re already seeing GPS and…

Oh look at you at fancy “combinations of features we want in a vehicle that best fits our needs and is the best price”.

Festivus for the Messed Up of Us

I have an S205 C250 wagon...and I would straight swap it for this thing in a heartbeat.

Anyone who tracks an NA/early NB Miata/MX-5 knows you don’t go bigger than 15

Empties, though - if they’re full, that means we’re angry at you