Nir Kahn

The arrestee formerly known as Prince

Pretty positive is an understatement, Autocar absolutely raved about the Rapid, called it a budget Porsche. You're right, Skoda's pre-VW reputation had nothing to do with car journalists, and little to do with the cars, it was mostly populist anti-commie banter from comedians and tabloids

Got a bit carried away after creating that image of it...

Rendering of a dark green Mika Mino by Namiir Design, outside Buckingham Palace with a silver Aston Martin DB5 and black Range Rover behind it

Here you go. If you prefer then the sills and pillars can be coloured - maybe yellow for Lotus or orange for BRM

That song was recorded closer in time to the release of the movie than to today.

Rear edge of the door glass. The car is really low, makes sense to have the handles relatively high up on the door frame

One of its distinguishing features is the enhanced crash protection that the composite frame offers, so maybe. We’re also looking into a Kei-car version for Japan

Mika Mino L7 category urban runabout because why should a city microcar be boring

Public service announcement:
You need to press play on Trading Places at 22:31 to hear Eddie Murphy say “Merry New Year!” at midnight.
If you want to count down to midnight with When Harry Met Sally, press play at 22:34

I actually taught my boys about the sock gap when they were little

That cushions monologue was fantastic. Also the bit about how all human invention throughout history has been motivated by the desire to see women naked. The script was always so well written and the storytelling so cleverly done. Steven Moffat at his best

No, it didn’t work without Jeff but the first three series were faultless, not a single duff episode

Drop the Dead Donkey went off a bit but the earlier series when it was good it was very very good.
I’ll add Coupling to this list of brilliant comedies that kind of got forgotten

Behold, the hanging instructions that came with a sign I bought online recently

The Book “Faster” by Neal Bascomb

The René Dreyfus story absolutely needs to be a movie. Or even a miniseries. There’s a fabulous book that tells the whole story really well

YouTube video by Blue Channel Chris Rea - Daytona

Sad to hear that Chris Rea didn’t make it home for Xmas this year. He was a true car guy. Who else could have written a love song to a Ferrari?

youtu.be/kLvtszlRLVs

@nirkahn.bsky.social It’s like that photo of someone loading luggage in the back of a 911.

FFS, they had one job

In the shadow of the terrible massacre of Jews celebrating Chanukah in Sydney today it is more important than ever to stand proud and be the light.
May the rest of the festival pass peacefully

Actually it was probably a composite photo back then. They’ll have photoshopped out a Toyota and pasted in a library shot of a Porsche and a sunset to make it classier. Doesn’t make it any less stupid

It really was a work of art. Knowing that the model was looking at the engine but deciding just to go with it

AI generates so much rubbish. I miss the old days like this when an actual professional photographer would take a photo of someone looking at a Porsche’s engine while holding an expensive weekend bag

I think that I have a vague recollection of seeing that. Would have been around 1982. I got a Marble Run. To be fair, a Tom Karen classic

He says he’s ok but that second impact was a big one and his steering column had already broke, the cockpit wasn’t a safe place by then. They’ll check him out properly

If you spin off where there are yellow flags and a car already in the barrier you deserve a penalty that affects your next race

It’s an unusual choice. I’ve already sent someone to find one for me

Ooh, the boat-tail is lovely

It might well have been the Metro.

They’re coming home! The wonderful news we’ve been waiting two years for. The end of this nightmare.
This must be the start of a very different reality for the whole region. We all deserve better. L’chaim - to life

Something I was not expecting to read in Shunsaku Tamiya’s autobiography was 4 pages about his trip to Israel in 1968 to see a Soviet T34 tank captured in the 6 Day War. A lot of the book is about the efforts he went to for research so that Tamiya models are accurate. A passionate perfectionist