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My experience is mainly racing and most of the top drivers I worked with varied their braking to suit the circuit - only braking in a straight line is not common IME. I prefer coasting when cruising and regen with brake pedal when pressing on, personally. I have one-pedal driving on my...

Michael Schumacher, when he first started earning lots of money in 1993/4, decided he wanted a super car. He had fun choosing one, trying all those he could and since he had no road car affiliation he could have any one of them. He chose a Bugatti EB110 which was much better than any other in...

I think the old advice to use the engine for braking originated from when drum brakes were very prone to overheat and fail going down hills. It made sense. I still use engine braking on hills in ICE cars.

That is people falling for the Tesla marketing I think. It is certainly more efficient if you haven't bothered to invest in the technology of blended braking for regeneration via the brake pedal ? . Make a virtue out of a shortcoming and non technically minded customers may well fall for it.

I seem to remember a Porsche 911 cost around £7500 when I was a schoolboy. When Porsche developed the first Cayenne SUV it was because they were not able to sell enough 911s to be profitable and if they have been profitable in more recent years it is because they have become, relatively...

Financial markets are hugely influenced by rumour and fashion and seem to be interested in very short term huge gains irrespective of how, or mythical long term bonanzas which rarely have much basis in fact. ;)

Trump's freeze on investment in charging points probably not going to help sales in the USA which is already poorly served by electric infrastructure and heavily driven by petrodollars.

A friend of mine runs a fuel company synthesising petrol from hydrocarbons in the atmosphere using a patented catalytic method which uses vast amounts of electricity. Last time I spoke to him he thought it would only ever be feasible for motor racing quantities/price. The production plant was...

PDK is clearly automatic, even though a manual over-ride is possible and it is better than most drivers can manage with 3 pedals and an H-pattern shift!

Here in the UK automatic gearboxes were really rare when I learned to drive and really inefficient 3-ratio lumps of junk at that, so I had never driven an automatic and most others too. They are more common now but I think you still don't get a full driving license if you take your driving test...

I didn't keep the old gash bracelet, Omega probably binned it 40 years ago! I am not really a collector, I just like watches and this one will go to my son. It was a 21st birthday gift from my Dad who had a heart attack 2 years later and died so its value to me is very much more than money.

The original bracelet is very thin material and all the ones I have seen are bent and twisted. Mine was my every day watch from 1971 for at least 10 years and the little leaf springs in the sprung links had broken and it kept falling apart so I got the next generation fitted when I had a service...

Mine is the same watch but I changed the tacky weak bracelet to a better one - so worth about £1000 or so less.

Those are the interesting ones ;)

One of my mates is a senior guy at Lucid. He is smart and tenacious and knows about driving dynamics, so I don't doubt it. They probably won't be available here in my lifetime and I'd need to get one on a consultation basis anyway - too expensive for me to actually buy. I am happy with the...

Another SUV Who repealed the laws of physics?

I prefer the people/carrier style to SUVs personally, more honest about what they actually are.

I prefer smaller myself. I do have a watch this big but it has far more information on the face. As a non-pilot I do not need a huge watch to read in bad light. I do like a crown that shape.

I am a big fan of GO movements, classical regional engineering detail without Lange price. I have a Panograph I bought 20 years ago. I do not like the modern fashion for large watches (which does seem to be waning thankfully).