Inertial Drift quickly elevating itself from "enjoyable" to one of my favourite arcade racers. Gameplay is great fun, graphics a mix of Auto Modellista cel-shading and Ridge Racer 4 pastels, and there's real depth too, rather than feeling like a game thrown together for the vibes.

Would maybe have selected something with doors for the UK, but this seems like a good idea for certain delivery areas. Not least as mail vans occasionally need to briefly park in obstructive places, so the smaller the better for that.

Your periodic reminder that Chrysler and its associated brands were perfectly capable of being massive fuckups all by themselves and have proven that through numerous partnerships, so while Stellantis is far from perfect, it's shortsighted to use it as a scapegoat for shit Dodges.

Know between the RX-7 giving my savings a kicking and that RX-8 in Japan being temperamental I shouldn't push my luck with rotary engines, but on the other hand a 13B in an NC *is* quite appealing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTC...

Amazon Prime almost never seems to have any movies I want to watch, but we've reached the time of year where probably *the* two movies of my childhood, Masters of the Universe, and Flight of the Navigator, are both free to watch, so that's my next couple of nights sorted.

Prelude is still a box I need to tick at some point. Fourth-gen probably highest on the list, but a good fifth-gen would be a fine thing, I reckon www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...

One of my favourite things about the subtitles on car videos is when you're watching something that makes a particularly nice noise, and the subtitle simply reads [MUSIC]

Ah, I see it's *that* time of year.

Kinda funny looking back at when people were obsessed with mileage. Today you see an Audi 80 with that diesel engine on 63k and know it'd do ten times that if you can prevent it rusting.

£10k feels like good value for a refreshed and mechanically fettled Series 3 XJ6. Not an engine-out resto but lots of work done. As a driver rather than concours car it seems like a good balance www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28700330...

Never really thought about it but this is spot on. Just taking one aspect like the endless sequels/franchise thing. Cinema got most of the 20th century before it was consumed by all that. Gaming got what, a decade or two?

What better day than Christmas to watch the loopy Best Motoring snow battle at Tsukuba? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqM...

New toy for the X-T2, a Fuji>Pentax adapter. The Ricoh SLR uses Pentax lenses so I've got a bunch. Now have more opportunities to use them (including a telephoto and a macro which I don't otherwise have for the Fuji already). Reckon the X-T2 looks good with this old 50mm on the front.

Picked up Dredge in the Steam sale. Only an hour or so in, but enjoying it - equal parts relaxing and creepy.

Finally watched The World's End last night, the only one of the Cornetto Trilogy I'd not seen. "What the fuck does WTF mean?" and "Oh fuck off, you big lamp" have secured themselves a place among my favourite movie quotes. Another great movie though.

The new issue of Copacetic is our most popular yet - in-store sales after the first week are already 40% up on the previous issue. So you’d better grab it fast before it sells out! Single issues are available here: copaceticmagazine.co.uk/product-cate...

Jason/Derek nail the feeling of a 205 Rallye in this episode. Exactly my experience driving one last year - a chassis that none of the VW stuff gets anywhere close to. Best part is though that the 106 is just as good, and a lot cheaper... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtU...

Top 10 countdown time. Last year's thread linked. Starting with the Smart Crossblade, shot for a @classicretromodern.bsky.social feature. One of the ultimate "riviera cars" - more attention-grabbing than a supercar, and fun mainly below 30mph. Top-down view one of my faves.

Prompted me to go hunting. Diesel not the most desirable of these, but post-facelift styling works well with the hatch I think. Black with those wheels is a smart combo too www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13683251...

Making the best of some bastard giving me a cough by using my lower vocal range to sing Johnny Cash songs.

Looks like it could be background art in a Wipeout game.

Always amusing reading the "Evo is back!"-type comments on the eCoty video, because people have literally been saying the same thing since I first started there more than a decade ago.

[Propaganda - Jewelled plays] www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Love that ever since portrait mode for phones was invented, car dealers have used it to get the things they're trying to illustrate perfectly out of focus.

Very easy to become overexposed to MGBs in the UK so I've never found them that interesting (driven one, it was nice enough, but never coveted one). This looks neat though. Rare instance of primer grey (ish) really suiting the look www.ebay.co.uk/itm/33630392...

Definitely don't need to add old digicams as another aspect of the photography hobby to get into, but there were some quite neat designs for a while. This Pentax Optio I-10 is smart (second pic is from google, as the listing pic is quite dark) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32672174...

The evo Car of the Year 2025 film is live on YouTube. Watch now.

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

There’s an old Kenyan proverb, often used when someone is being loudly ignorant, that goes something like this… “Unlike the stomach, the brain does not alert you when empty.”

In the new issue of Copacetic - @antonyingram.bsky.social digs into the story of the formidable @prodriveofficial.bsky.social P25, a rally restomod without compromise. In shops now, or order direct: copaceticmagazine.co.uk/product-cate...

Well this is quite fun. Not many Datsun Cherrys left, let alone ones as well-modified as this seems to be www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

I know how you feel, Henry

Need to find out how to switch off the watermark for stills, but good perspective from the S660 clips I took. I'll put together a short vid at some point, worth it for the turbo noises.

More Autocar archive. Always liked this 2001 test of all the stuff you could get under £10k. Fairly diverse - city cars, superminis, MPVs, baby hot hatches, quite a spread of manufacturers. Just went through price lists and lemme tell you, it's difficult to assemble that many cars today...

Fun spot in the background of the latest All The Gear video - a Dutton Leggera. And with a bit of digging, one that was for sale a few years ago for £3k (second pic)... and is now for sale again at £2500 (third and fourth pics) www.carandclassic.com/us/l/C1977690

Have been subbed to Autocar for the past few years mainly as the archive is such a brilliant resource, though obviously the modern mag is good too. But every year I get to the "road test yearbook" issue and sigh that it's not a patch on the old yearbooks with four mini-reviews to a spread.

Anyone else noticed over the last say, six months, an increase in YouTube ads for - and I'm not making this up - artisan electric toothbrushes?

The era of the sub-£10k Jag I-Pace is apparently upon us. The grey's a bit tedious but it looks in reasonable nick for 132k miles too www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14696584...

That is... not a good looking car.

Ho ho ho! Issue 4 is in shops today! UK readers, you can find your nearest stockist here: frontline-group.co.uk/store-finder/

[Checks watch] I believe, right now, #itsvantime www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...

Random snap from the Japan trip. Had this old abandoned brutalist gym in Takamatsu marked as a pin on Google for ages, and as I knew I'd be in the area I made a small detour. Under threat of demolition, so might have been my only chance to see it.

I tend to post cars that are on the more affordable side, but making an exception for eighty grand's worth of 1931 Riley Sprite, because it looks absolutely fantastic www.carandclassic.com/car/C1959864

Went searching for this and discovered that there's also currently a bog-basic version of the pre-facelift current gen model for sale. Funky design even in austerity spec. Nat-asp and auto 'box means it won't be quick, but great around town www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39735284...

What's it like to drive the world's cheapest car? Thanks to @thealso.bsky.social and @sionhudson.bsky.social, I've been able to write about it www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/dri...

I really must tick an Alfa GT/GTV off the list at some point... (apropos of the other day, another car that works in maroon) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32668611...

Lot of awful news coming out of Australia today but this guy's like a movie hero. Probably saved a lot of people. Hope he makes a full recovery from his injuries.

Enjoying the spec of this Disco 3. Silver over beige cloth, manual, and on what are presumably modern Defender steelies www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13643928...

Still thinking about kei cars, obviously. Think I've narrowed it down to these four as my favourites currently on sale - Honda N-One (in manual, RS form), GR Copen, Suzuki Lapin, and Daihatsu Taft. If Bsky allowed five photos, I'd throw the Daihatsu Canbus in there too.

Just found this 944. Failed to sell the other day at just under £11k. Dark red rarely my thing, but on here it really works, particularly with the matching interior. Really need to try a 924/944/968 at some point www.themarket.co.uk/en/listings/...