Weekend Watches Friday 8 November 2024
A V12 diesel Audi that can seat five, cool cars for cool guys, cheating cheaters, an age-old question answered and a new electric Alpine.
Drivetribe brings us the story of the diesel V12 Audi Q7, one of the more surprising cars to come out of Ingolstadt.
James Pumphrey from Speeed has what is (hopefully) a very tongue-in-cheek video about cool cars for cool guys (apparently the latter is some sort of TikTok thing. If I'm honest, this is the kind of video I'd love to make every now and again.
Also, this list fails to include the Lotus Elise, but who am I to judge coolness?
A few weeks ago I directed your attention to a video detailing motorsport cheating. This one is a deeper dive by Mechanix Illustrated. I don't have a name for the presenter because I think it's possibly an AI voiceover (cringe) but does correctly pronounce Didier Auriol. But not "debuted." Anyway, it's good.
M'colleagues at Drive.com.au, Trent Nikolic and Rob Margeit are answering the age-old question - which is better?
In this case, it's the MX-5 vs the 86.
Top Gear's editor-in-chief Jack Rix has driven the new Alpine A290 and this should dampen the performative contrarianism about the Renault 5 not being a LaFerrari killer.
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