
With Mercedes and McLaren now going their separate ways, at least when it comes to road cars, can we assume that they’ve agreed to disagree?

With Mercedes and McLaren now going their separate ways, at least when it comes to road cars, can we assume that they’ve agreed to disagree?

The Porsche 911 is the water of the car world. It sounds absurd, but hear me out. We take it for granted and it’s so omnipresent we barely notice it, yet we couldn’t live without it. See what I’m getting at?

Ferrari officially opened its latest store on Wednesday lunchtime (May 6). Along with Las Vegas, Milan, Barcelona, Bologna, San Francisco, Beijing, Miami, Macau and many others, London now has a swaggering Ferrari emporium, halfway up tourist mecca Regent Street.

Whiled away a very pleasant 30 minutes with a mate yesterday, as he demonstrated his new Apple G5 whatever-the-hell-it-is. Naturally, despite the world of wonder available to us just a few keyboard taps away – naked girls, music, the images of people falling over – we went straight to a used car site.

You sense that Toyota, that well-known purveyor of automotive anarchy, thinks that the mid-engined Aygo one-off is, like, rilllly kerrraazzazy because it has the word ‘crazy’ splashed in enormous bloody letters down the side and across the nose.
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