Ten Things We Learned This Week

The only possible explanation for this advert, now the most watched automotive commercial on YouTube with nearly 60 million views, is that JCVD's man parts are forged from the fires of Mount Doom. Eye-watering stuff.

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GM announced this week that it was ending Holden manufacturing in Australia. Ford did the same earlier in the year. Now Toyota is weighing up whether it can "continue operating as the sole vehicle manufacturer in Australia". Bad times. Look at the burnout picture above and rekindle the good times.

UItimate kudos to this driver who - we are glad to report, suffered no serious injury after her car lost control on a wet road and went head over heels into the adjoining greenery - for not completely freaking out. Her reaction? "Flipping a car? Yeah. Whatevs."

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How much money? £615,000, or a cool $1 million. That's for his new opus on the history of Formula One. It's 852 pages long. It weighs 37kg. It has 1200 photos. It carries the autographs of every single F1 world champion. It gives you four passes to every single GP of 2014. It has a carbon fibre case. And it's ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

A four-pot in a Porsche? You better believe it. That tech is coming to road cars at some point soon. But you've long stopped reading this because now you're thinking about what Audi has up its sleeve to retain its Le Mans crown, right?

Well...

Red headlights and black bodywork and that slippery LMP1 shape means Audi's new 2014 WEC car looks, frankly, EVIL. As one TG.commentator correctly pointed out, try looking at this car without the Imperial March theme running through your head. Da-da-da-DUM-dada-DUM-dada...

Come on, it's not that hard: BMW's odd numbers are for saloons, even numbers for Coupe/Convertible, OK? Also, both the M3 saloon and M4 Coupe have something BMW OFFICIALLY calls 'Smokey Burnout' function. This is brilliant.

Thus far, N has not been a Fast Letter. But now Hyundai is to launch a new performance sub-brand called ‘N', after the company's R&D centre in Namyang, Korea. We now can't wait for the VelosterN and Santa FeN. Oh, wait...

There is an online currency called Bitcoin, and we have literally no idea how it works. But now, somebody has exchanged some Bitcoins (a bag-full?) for a new Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. Still not enough Bitcoins mind, to buy that bonkers, one-off Lamborghini Sogna (above).

Yeah, so this just happened. We assume it's not official. We're still baffled. Also, aren't ventriloquist's dummies AWFULLY realistic nowadays?