Links We Like October 8 2024

Peter Anderson

Oct 8, 2024 — 4 min read

Consumer advice is kind of what we do here (kind of?) so we'll start with a story about the roads in Australia with the most speed cameras. I live within 3km of five of the things, so it's a story close to my heart.

We've also got a new McLaren, the delectable new Renault 5, some amusing Cybertruck news and one of the more unexpected EV restomods.

Tomorrow on the Redline we welcome Scott Newman and his review of the new Corvette Z06 and E-Ray. First thing tomorrow morning!

Zane Dobie at Drive.com.au has the story of the roads with the most cameras in each Australian state and territory. While I live near five (I have precisely zero objection to red light cameras, just so we're clear), if you live between Hurstville and Strathfield in Sydney, then...wow....

Now that we have consumer advice out of the way, let's bounce to the other end of the spectrum and send you off to look at a new McLaren hypercar. After the Artura's diversion into V6 territory, the 4.0-litre V8 in the W1 knows how to rev.

I shouldn't like it – I'm not really into these super high-end cars because I don't really see the point – but this one I would actually drive if offered it (hugely unlikely). Having said that, I'd swap a drive in a W1 for a run in a McLaren F1.

The excellent Ben Whitworth at CAR is your guide.

Also at CAR Vicky Parrott drives the spectacular-looking Renault 5. I think this car is one of the most important that Renault has ever made, and that's saying something given its history.

The 5 reboot has been a long time coming and whether it comes to Australia remains debatable given French marques' inability to get a good price on EVs for us, but I just want it here to look at it.

One of the biggest insurance underwriters in the US has stopped insuring the Cybertruck.

Come for the schadenfreude, stay for the litany of problems that has likely pushed GEICO to this decision. Torquenews's Tinsay Aregay's deadpan delivery of that long list is a lot of fun.

Kia has made an EV restomod of one if its early cars. Known overseas as the Pride, the restomod is an 80th birthday gift to itself. The Pride was basically a first-gen Mazda 121 produced under licence in Korea. And the 121 itself was commissioned by Ford to be sold in the US and Australia

It was sold here as the Festiva and it was bloody awful. So this EV restomod may actually be the one Festiva I'd own.

CarThrottle's Mike Bartholomew runs you through the details.