One Liners:
- Toyota Hilux Dakar is launched in SA. Start queuing today.
- Tesla fires 9% of staff. So that sucks. Good luck Elon (and those 9%).
Ford Mustang Shelby GT350
Shelby baby, like legit Shelby. Practically everything Shelby that was meant to surface in the upcoming GT500 has already materialized here in the GT350. "Somewhere, Carroll is smiling," said Hermann Salenbauch, global director for Ford Performance vehicle programs.
"The new Shelby GT350 is our ultimate track Mustang. We've stuck to Carroll Shelby's original formula for winning championships and made our Shelby GT350 even better with the latest in race-proven aerodynamics, tire and chassis technology."
We believe it buddy, and can only pray it makes its way to Mzansi with its full complement of ramapaging horses intact. That's 387kW and 582Nm. From a naturally aspirated V8. In 2018, we'll take it, thanks.
New Audi A1 uncovered
These aren't our photos, rather those from a Belgian title by the name of Autotijd. We'd tell you more except… It’s in Belgian.
First impressions are very positive, our favourite bit of styling has to be the three slivers of gap above the radiator grille a la ur Quattro. Let’s hope it makes it in when official photos are eventually revealed. Even so, the new A1 is set to debut in South Africa in 2019, so at least we won't have to wait too long.
Toyota wins 24 Hours of Le Mans
Yep, they have done it - also important, they finished it!
Well done Gazoo Racing for bringing home a 1-2 result. Fun fact, Alonso shared that winning Toyota TS050 hybrid racer, which means he has two of the three victories under his belt to complete the Tripple Crown (victories at Le Mans, Monaco F1 GP and the Indy 500).
Which kind of makes him Motorsport's Thanos, doesn't it? Also newsworthy, Toyota is only the second Japanese winner since Mazda did it in 1991, and it only took them 20 years of trying.
BMW 8 Series revealed
This one took a while, the direct successor to the legendary V12 powered BMW 850i of decades ago.
Set to debut as soon as November 2018, the new 2018 BMW xDrive M850i will be built alongside the 7 Series at the Dingolfing plant in Germany. It's strikingly faithful to last year's concept car revealed at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este and will with immediate effect represent the flagship of the brand, quite resoundingly too, thanks to looking like liquid sex draped over the musculature of a sinewy hybrid of Adonis and Diane of the Amazon.
It's imposing at 4,843mm long, 1902mm wide and flat at 1,341mm. Technology levels are set to vulgar, with rafts and rafts of safety, connectivity and lighting bordering on artificial intelligence. But before sentience is fully obtained BMW will give the driver an opportunity to revel in this slippery new M Coupe XXL's 390kW and 750Nm - this from an engine with half the cylinder count of the car that came before it.
Yes this will do nicely till the M8 eventually arrives.
This shooting brake Tesla has us thinking of classic British sports cars
Maybe it's that cheeky British racing green paint job evoking Bristols and Jensens of old, but what you're really looking at here is a Tesla Model S that's been restyled by a Dutch firm by the name of RemetzCar.
To essentially become the first shooting brake EV, for a distinguished collector of one-off shooting brakes who just incidentally has been an early adopter of EVs in general.
Our hats off to you then, Mr Floris De Raadt, you mad man.
