Countering that stoopid Ram Rumblebee 770hp pickup with this. Available from Alibaba for £4k www.alibaba.com/product-deta...

Mind blowing really that the only ‘legacy’ global car market on that chart is… Toyota. And growing fast!

PSA: Bluebird is about to run again. Pretty damn exciting bluebirdk7thefestival.co.uk

Charley never got round to the subject of Aston Martins then (or maybe it was past Trump’s nap time at that point)

Must be the Warwick Acoustics electrostatic speaker system, first to use it. Nice bit of British innovation!

Excuse me @ashinchina.bsky.social Kevin posting signs from factory bog walls in China surely means it’s now acceptable practice so can I get my blacklist lifted

Straight outta Cirencester

The Genesis Mint lives! Sort of.

Nightmare fuel

Can’t believe we’ll never get play Fortnite in an Afeela

Goodbye Afeela, wouldn’t want to be ya

“another farmer might see them and say 'Who have you got doing your moles?'” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone converted a Mk1 Micra to electric (h/t rare and on the road group on FB). Failed my test in one of these - the regular four banger.

He’s going to Aston then? Hard grafting ahead!

Hard to proceed when Porsche kills your platform, but then Bentley had axed its “five in five” EV plan in 2024. The financial case for the high tech SSP61 platform started fraying from that date

Gotta admire the dedication of driving to the supermarket in…whatever this ancient machine is

Shitty behaviour from the Independent.

Totally forgotten about this car! Electric Toyota IQ.

F1 gets a spring break too this year. Florida out of bounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

Told the designer when he asked at CES what I thought of the SUV that it looked like a shoe. I guess i realised that shoes aren’t a traditional automotive design vernacular, so followed up with ‘but some shoes look cool’. He sensibly moved the conversation along. The saloon was very cool I thought

Mate hired a new Audi A6 Avant diesel. Battery died. How he got in: 1.⁠ ⁠read online about magic red door button. 2.⁠ ⁠⁠press hard with finger 3.⁠ ⁠⁠Same with screwdriver, red rope comes out 4.⁠ ⁠⁠remove facia on bumper to find two wires 5.⁠ ⁠⁠connect 12v battery 6.⁠ ⁠⁠pull red rope with key nearby

We’re in. Sort of.

Barn find videos posted from Ukraine add another, less restorative dimension

In the latest episode of the gritty Midlands soap, it was all a dream and Gerry never left! www.cardesignnews.com/designers/ge...

Avoiding road markings! Sign of a mature technology ready for total autonomy

Well, Porsche killed the platform it was riding on so Lambo had no choice but to kill the EV and say no one wanted it. Sure it would have been a hard sell now but in 2029?

Bloke here proudly showcasing the longevity of his 22-year-old Ford event blag jacket on a recent visit to the Ramsgate tunnels.

Interesting question to which the indirect answer is EV. Nissan found it could save money on the new Leaf by not offering a heated windscreen because the car cabin warmed up so quickly it rendered in-glass filaments redundant

The American government’s hard reverse on EVs has achieved the same almost the same multi-billion dollar hit for automakers (on writedowns) but in less than a year!

Please don’t do this @bbc (shouting into the void I know). I don’t want headlines in iPlayer choices for the Winter Olympics. Been avoiding those all day! This one is day 1 but still doing it.

Jack Barclay in series 1 Minder! Still in Berkeley Square today, now Bentley only. Salesman tells Arthur the waiting period for a Rolls is ‘rather longer than the gestation period of an elephant’ Arthur: "Yes well, we're all not zoological experts, how long is that?" "About 3 years I’m afraid sir"

Thank you Google News for keeping me up to date with the important car stories from the alternative reality universe

Vauxhall no longer posting on X

UK - no punitive tariffs on Chinese EVs, but excluded from incentives. Germany - punitive tariffs on Chinese EVs (via EU) but included in new EV and PHEV incentives! Should add… France - punitive tariffs and excluded from incentives

Scariest stories on the web are posted on Polestar owner Facebook groups

Got badly waylaid at the Brussels show by the Fiat Tris three wheeler. An electric Ape basically. Built in the same plant as the Citroen Ami and used the same battery for a 90km range. Extras include a water tank with soap dispense to wash hands. A modern barista’s dream ride

Won’t do anything because he - probably correctly - believes doing so would raise the ire of Musk and Trump to the point it threatens Range Rover assembly line workers. What a shitty situation.

Tremendous Mk1 Discovery three-door spotted lurking in the depths of Cornwall, complete with original decals rumoured to hide dodgy initial panel fit (is that true?)

Family London light tour and Dad got distracted by one of the rarest/most obscure cars in the UK: a Dubai registered Rox 01 (aka Polestones) plug in hybrid SUV from China. Pininfarina-designed after a good long hard look at a Defender

DHL’s enquiry system defeats all comers including corporate megaclient John Lewis. ‘Sorry can’t get through, have a refund’

If the UK govnt is going to follow this it should announce VERY SOON to avoid dragging out the debates and a second round of ‘EVs will never work’ debates that the EU’s decision will inevitably spark.

Bloke on Facebook advertising ‘freemined’ coal. Forest of Dean

Bye bye Duo (Twizy mk2) will be a curious automotive footnote and million-point car spot like the Mk2 version of the Ford Th!nk

It’d be a climb down but PHEVs/EREVs are a compromise that everyone will love except for green groups (with reason). Suppliers, car-makers, users, dealers. Lots of content, flexibility, premiumness, things to service. Only problem is that the Chinese also love a PHEV and getting rather good at them!

Saw one of these 70s US wagons randomly on a Hertfordshire walk recently. Estates we Brits call them and it was definitely bigger than many London gardens

There’s an unedifying picture of US automotive. CEOs Farley and Filosa (not Barra though) meekly standing behind Trump while he spouts racist garbage after rolling back climate change regulations to allow them to carry on selling $80k 15mpg petrol pickups

Cropley on form here. “No one inside the business seemed to have the intestinal fortitude to take him on” www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/new-...

This is HUGE news in UK automotive. ‘Prof’ McGovern was a totemic figure at JLR with influence well beyond design, by dint of being rather good at it. But probably more a blocker than facilitator for a new CEO

I tasked AI with mocking up a European-spec Bronco and Gemini did okay (after telling it about 15 times to get the spelling on the grille right. No, not a Bongo)