A dedicated space for the industry’s most pressing controversies. We break down conflicting perspectives on technical, economic, and market-driven topics, providing a critical look at the arguments that divide the automotive community.
Mercedes-AMG built an EV that pretends to be a V8. That’s not progress. That’s surrender. There’s a moment in Chris Harris’ video on the original Tesla Roadster where he says something quiet and revealing: the silence is part of the magic. The torque hits, the world tilts, and there’s no shouting, no theatre, no soundtrack. … Read more
How a Tin of Paint Became the Most Powerful Asset in Motorsport Here is a test. Close your eyes and think of Le Mans. Whatever car appeared in your head, I can tell you what colour it was. Pale blue and orange. You thought of a Gulf car. You might not even know the model … Read more
Vision BMW Alpina: They Killed a Sports Brand to Build a Maybach There’s a video Chris Harris filmed years ago in an Alpina B7. He’s on an unrestricted stretch of autobahn, indicated needle past 280 km/h, and he keeps saying the same thing in different ways: this car is doing something the M5 cannot. It … Read more
Jaguar Burned the Ships Before Learning to Swim: An EV Bet at the Worst Possible Moment Clarkson once said, with that lazy contempt only he could pull off, that Jaguar had spent decades being the brand that posh men bought because they couldn’t quite stretch to a Rolls. Cruel, accurate, and missing the point. Jaguar … Read more
Aramco’s hybrid engine is a masterpiece. It’s also a trap. You don’t expect this kind of news from Saudi Aramco. You expect it from Toyota. From Honda. From some stealth outfit in Stuttgart with a whiteboard full of equations. You don’t expect the world’s largest oil producer to walk into Detroit, hire a French race-engine … Read more
Karma Doesn’t Make Cars: Why It Bought a 27-Year-Old Software Company Before Its First Electric Vehicle There’s a sentence Marques McCammon repeats every time someone asks him what Karma Automotive actually is. He doesn’t say “we’re an electric car manufacturer.” He doesn’t say “we compete with Porsche” or “we want to be the next Tesla.” … Read more
Factorial Energy: The Battery That Could Kill Liquid Lithium As You Know It There’s a company in Massachusetts that’s about to rewrite the rules of the electric game. It’s not Tesla. It’s not CATL. It’s not any of the names you see splashed across headlines every week. It’s called Factorial Energy, it was founded by … Read more
WEIGHT IS THE ENEMY: HOW YOUR TWO-TON CAR DESTROYS ROADS, PARKING STRUCTURES, YOUR WALLET AND PROBABLY YOUR LIFE Everything you’ve been told at the dealership is wrong. Every SUV ad showing a happy family crossing a mountain pass. Every brochure promising safety through size. Every assumption you’ve made about progress and protection. You’re about to … Read more
MA-FIA Chapter VI: When Being American Isn’t Enough This article is part of the investigative series “La Mafia de la FIA” by Not Enough Cylinders, documenting the structural failures of international motorsport governance. The 2,500-Car Wall To compete in IMSA’s GTP class, a manufacturer must produce more than 2,500 vehicles per year for worldwide sale. … Read more
F1 Academy, the Golden Cage There’s nothing more insulting than being gifted something you’d already earned. In 1975, Lella Lombardi scored points in a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Not in a women’s category. Not in a parallel championship. In the same Spanish Grand Prix where men risked their lives every Sunday. Sixth place. Half a … Read more
MA-FIA IV: The Stolen Spectacle — Everything the FIA Took from You that You Should Never Have Lost 1,200 track limit infringements in a single Grand Prix. V10s at 19,000 rpm silenced by hybrid vacuum cleaners. Refuelling banned so the winner is now whoever exits the single pit stop first. And when drivers asked for … Read more
MA-FIA III: The Price of Racing — How the FIA Turned Motorsport into a Billionaire’s Theme Park €50,000 a year for your 8-year-old to race karts. €1.3 million per season in F3. Nearly a million for a rally car you can’t buy. And if you make it to F1, over a million euros just for … Read more
