Новости за 01.02.2020

The International Space Station is the most expensive vehicle in existence, even more expensive than a Ferrari 250 GTO, or a Datsun. At $150 billion dollars, it’s slightly out of my price range, and the fact that it is in space probably means we’re not going to get a Doug Score on it anytime soon.

Chrysler, the automaker, sold its first minivan in 1984 as a Dodge Caravan. Chrysler, the brand, sold its first minivan six years later as the Town & Country. Prior to this minivan, the Town & Country name was mostly used on wagons, all the way back to the first one in 1941. There were only a few made in the first…

The Volkswagen ID R has set records at Pikes Peak, Goodwood, the Nurburgring, and Tianmen mountain, and the company isn’t planning on slowing down. The company will be bringing the ID R back to Goodwood to try and beat its own record. But before that, it will be heading to the Sonoma Speed Festival to try and break…

I’ve never been a big fan of hybrid cars, even though I built one that one time. They’re supposed to be the best of both worlds, but you often end up getting drawbacks from both sides. I’m generally a fan of electric vehicles but I do think there is one place where hybrids would work out really well, and that is RVs.

I don’t pretend to know much about fashion, but it seems that most new things are just a rehashing of old things. Car companies do this too, with retro styling and throwback names. The cycle seems to take around 20 to 30 years. What mom and dad are doing is not cool, but what grandma and grandpa did, that’s cool.

Just after the 1973 oil crisis, and in the midst of the ‘73-’74 stock market crash, car buyers were looking for smaller, less expensive cars. Chrysler, however, targeted buyers who were shopping for a car the size of a small house, and who also wanted a couch. The rest of the decade was not good for the company.

The scuttlebutt around the internet last week, at least in certain circles (of car nerds) was that a 1971 Datsun 240Z sold for $310,000 in an online auction. Also sold at auction, on the same site in fact, was a 2004 Maybach 57: $34,000.

Thursday night Formula E tweeted out the above image teasing the “Gen 2 Evo” chassis, which is expected to be a facelifted aerokit for the Spark SRT05e chassis. This should be the car used for season seven (2020/21) and extend through the end of season eight before Gen 3 is introduced.

I’ll admit, this is a sort of odd story, and while it involves a motorized, wheeled vehicle, that vehicle is a scale model of the Mars rover Curiosity, a kind of cartoonish take on the real thing, built by me seven years ago. It was in a YouTube video that’s oddly popular again, and has somehow ended up in the hands…

Modern Minis are big, heavy, ugly, and expensive, so I was surprised to learn that 346,639 Minis were sold (to whom?) last year, almost as many cars as Tesla sold, according to BMW. Anyway, the lineup is due for a refresh, but that apparently has been delayed thanks to Brexit.

I touched the seven-figure no-windshield McLaren Elva last night and it was like that scene in Ratatouille where the bad guy tastes food so good he gets transported back to his childhood. This car is like a Hot Wheels toy. One of the dumb ones that looks like a fish or something. Except, in real life, it’s so…

When you are born into the Andretti motorsport dynasty, it is almost a foregone conclusion that you’ll end up racing for a living. Son of Aldo Andretti, Mario’s brother, it didn’t take long for John to follow in the family business. Not only was he pretty damn good at it, but he would drive just about anything with…

Han’s back in the first full trailer for Fast 9, also titled The Fast Saga. Everything else looks pretty dumb.

Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night wondering about whether you should buy an imported 1992 Autozam AZ-1 or one from 1994? Have you woken up in the middle of the night screaming and holding a knife? We can’t help you with the second one, but we can with the first! We’re here to answer…