No More Electroclash Grey

Autocar claim that Fiat are going to stop making grey cars.

I've just been on their configurator so it looks like there will be no more of these:

So you will now be left with a choice of Pastel Sicilia Orange (which looks quite good), Epic Blue, Dew Green, Bossanova White, Pasodoble Red or Metallic Crossover Black.  I was going to make a comment about how they should stop making crossovers rather stop making grey cars - especially as they've named one of their colours after them...

...but FIAT only make the one - the 500X - and that started out as an MPV.

I do think that there are far too many grey cars on the UK roads though.

There should be a lot less.

Then my grey car would stand out a bit more.

Antisocial Media

Elon Musk (Twitter) has agreed to meet Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) in a cage fighting ring.  Here's the BBC News take on it.  Basically, they think Zuckerberg has MMA experience and Musk is not serious.

But is Musk serious about anything?

I know that he must be a fan of the brilliant Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs - here's a clue:

Supposedly (and I tend to believe it) he got the idea for the Tesla Ludicrous mode and the Model S Plaid from those.

But that's yesterday's story.

So here today is a Lexus in Plaid Mode:

It is also purportedly approaching 290kph in an 80kph zone.

Drive.au.com have the story here.  This was on Instagram so one nil to Zuckerberg.

It looks like it was faked by a content creator called North Borders who says on his Insta page, "I don't have much to write here mainly because I can't be f----ed writing some heartfelt message about myself, I got other s--- to do"

Sounds like a charming young man.

Although that quote comes via Drive - I can't be f---ed checking it out for myself.

Get Me to the Church On Time

Bet this guy's Wedding Day was memorable.

He got himself arrested driving his M4 on The M4.

At 121mph.

With a dodgy tyre.

Here's the BBC News story which includes Wiltshire Police's Tweet on the subject.

And here is the car in Police custody:

What the story doesn't answer though...

...is was he driving towards, or away from, the church?

Testing Times

Argentinian driving tests seem to involve driving around a circuit that looks a bit like the Legoland Driving School (sponsored by Fiat) - my children particularly enjoyed that attraction in Legoland Windsor.

Here's an Argentinian lady having a go at it - as reported by BBC News:

The annoying thing is that they don't say whether or not she passed.

Gambling Licence

Excuse my ignorance but I was not aware of The War of 1812.

Apparently, lots of it happened in the US State of Maryland.

Skip forward 200 years and somebody in the US State of Maryland had decided to commemorate the bicentenary with a Website - www.starspangled200.org

They even decided to put it on car licence plates in the US State of Maryland.

Skip forward another 15-ish years and somebody in the US State of Maryland decided to stop paying for that URL so somebody else took it over - a Filipino online gambling website.  Car+Driver have the full story here.

What were the odds of that happening, eh?