Everything you need to know about cars this week: 22 Nov '20

"The first full rotation occurred at 35mph and was largely due to the fact I was convulsing with laughter. The second happened a lap later and even though I was still giggling like a child, the reason for the spin was me applying nothing like enough corrective lock, nothing like quickly enough..."

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"Lewis Hamilton has just won his seventh F1 World Championship. Here's his career so far... in numbers."

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"At last, the manual is here. A seven-speed manual, no less, with a clever lock-out mechanism that bars selecting overdrive-y seventh unless you’re already in 6th. You also get dynamic engine mounts that vary how much the engine tenses under load and the Sport Chrono stopwatch thrown in with your gear lever..."

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"How time flies. Just two years after it was first revealed at the Paris Motor Show (remember ‘motor shows’?), Audi’s S3 on stilts, the SQ2, has been updated with minor visual tweaks and tech upgrades..."

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"This is the new mid-engined, eighth-generation Corvette. It was designed to compete with European supercars. And GM still says the Vette will be available in the UK from late 2021, with a highly specced Z51 package. Crucially, it will have the steering wheel on the right side..."

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"The move towards electrification is gaining momentum. Many countries plan on banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars in as little as a decade’s time. In that context, this Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 appears to represent the dinosaurs roaring viciously at the asteroid..."

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"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Internet, please be upstanding for the fastest production car ever to lap the Nürburgring. At 5pm on 4 November, German racing driver Maro Engel set a laptime of 6m 43.616s in the new Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series, beating the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ by just over a second and the Porsche 911 GT2 RS by around four seconds..."

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"People are buying EVs voluntarily. Sales of full EVs and of PHEVs each tripled in October 2020 versus the same month in 2019. Combined, they’re now one in seven of all the new cars sold, very similar numbers to diesels. For some brands it’s higher – a quarter of October’s Mercedes sales were EV or PHEV..."

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"This is the third-generation Ford Mustang, which went into production in 1978. It had lost some of the appealing muscle car look of the original, morphing into a more wedgy homage to the taste vacuum that was the 1970s. It was hampered too by Ford’s insistence on trying to save money by spinning off a load of cars off the same platform, turning it into more of a nag than a pony. Of course, no one would ever make that mistake again..."

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"You might be looking at the maddest series-production Lamborghini in a long time. This is the Huracán STO, and it’s the closest we’ve yet got to a Lambo Super Trofeo or GT3 racecar for the road (STO stands for Super Trofeo Omologata)..."

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"The headlines are thus: it’s a similar size (a bit longer and lower, with a slightly longer wheelbase) and so has the same proportions as the excellent first-gen car, but has a more powerful engine, more rigid chassis and better interior..."

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"This is a poignant one though. The Morgan 3 Wheeler ‘P101 Edition’ is how this generation of bike-engined trike says goodbye. It’s ceasing production in 2021, because its glorious S&S V-twin engine will no longer meet emissions requirements in Europe..."

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"Lotus Evija, Pininfarina Battista and Rimac C_Two not do it for you? Getting impatient waiting for news on the Tesla Roadster? Well have we got the all-electric hypercar for you. It’s called the Elation Freedom – because ‘Murica – and it promises a great deal. Whether it delivers on those promises is another matter entirely…"

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"The new car takes the newly introduced and technologically advanced S-Class in an even more overtly luxurious direction. This is a vehicle whose options list includes a chauffeur package, that stretches the S-Class’s wheelbase by 18cm (it’s 5.5m long overall), and adds more metal to the rear doors. The grille is a serious statement that takes its cue from 2016’s magnificently in-yer-face Vision 6 concept, and the C-pillars feature fixed quarterlights with an illuminated brand logo on the outside..."

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"The stick-shift is an endangered species. These are the final remaining greats..."

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