I love how out there DS’s styling can be. But I fear that like so many other weird larger French cars, they’re going to sell about 17 total. Mostly to the French Government for ministerial cars (see the Citroen C6, Renault Vel Satis, everything the new DS has made apart from the little DS3...)

That is wonderfully bonkers.

I’m not sure there’s enough left of the bus to work out what had broken down...

Will it be a tooo point tooo, yeah?

Why does this even exist to begin with? What problem is a digital licence plate solving? How often would you change the plate on a car anyway? I know the plate doesn’t stick with the car in the US like it does here in Europe, but unless you’re moving to a different state, it doesn’t change unless you get a custom…

There is nothing that this company has produced that is in any way tasteful. 

Depends. Some do, many don’t. I went to a very upmarket school (literally had royalty go there) and some of the richest kids were dropped off in very ordinary cars.

This isn’t a car for us. It’s for someone like my mother-in-law, who finds highways scary.

NB you just don’t care about range in an EV, there are enough charging points, but you may care about efficiency.

The Spanish have been doing something similar for a long time too, with their Talgo trains. Spain and Portugal have a wider ‘Iberian’ gauge (1,688 mm) on most of the network. The Spanish high speed network is standard gauge (1,435 mm), as are most trains in the rest of Europe.

100%. With the exceptions of the shit show that is VW Groups current infotainment systems, there's not been a bad car on it. Some are bland and anonymous, but they're cars in bland and anonymous segments. Things like the GTI (especially the Mk7), the Skoda Superb, the Audi TTRS... There are some absolute belters. 

I’d say the pinnacle from VW is the MQB. The Golf Mk7/8, Audi TT Mk3, all the way up to the VW Atlas. There’s even the superminis that are based on an adapted version, the MQB A0, under things like the VW Polo, Audi A1 etc.

Here in the UK the insurance costs would basically prevent a teenager driving something like an iX M60. A lot of companies simply wouldn’t give a quote for anything much more than a mid-spec Golf for a teenager. I feel that’s kind of appropriate! 

My understanding of ‘Active’ head restraints was that the force of the torso pushing back in the seat would push the headrest forward, not having any pyrotechnics or anything?

I believe that you still get an NFC card, which is your backup. How that works when the battery is dead in the car... I’m not sure. I’d want at least one actual physical key with a blade to manually unlock the car, personally. 

Doctor here- sleeping is not sitting stationary in a plane seat where you can barely move even if you wanted to. As others have said, you move during your sleep (even if you don’t think you do, you do) and movement of the leg muscles helps blood flow back from your feet in the veins of your legs.

They have some in Leigh, just to the west of Manchester. It’s... not amazing. I think most people wanted them to extend the Manchester Metrolink tram system out to Leigh instead, especially as the guided busway uses an old rail alignment anyway. 

This. Tesla has made some very odd decisions with their vehicles lately, but crash safety has never been something they’ve been bad at. And I am quite the opposite of a Tesla fan, I think they’re hideous, overhyped, and that Elon is a massive tool. 

Apparently him and Mate Rimac are both genuinely lovely people who just love the nerdy engineering of the machines they help create.

You joke... but someone did commit suicide into a KLM Embraer’s engine at Schipol airport recently 😬