Mercedes or Rolls?

Both actually.

As someone who has previously noted how much I hate the Merc GLE Coupe, I can only congratulate the idiot who rolled this one.  It's an AMG too - but that doesn't stop it looking stupid.

 

I also hate the fact that Car+Driver have made their Website inaccessible to those of us in the UK (and probably other places too) which means a lot of my previous links won't work any more and I'd lost a valuable source of motoring news.

 

Until I combined their Spanish output with Google Translate:

 

Et Voila!

 

Sorry, that's French. Talking of France...

 

The Spanish-language version of Car+Driver is where I found this story about a guy in France who rented this GLE for a Wedding, and got over-excited going around a roundabout.  Here's the YouTube version:

Le cercle de la sorrow.

Spoiler Alert

Not that type of spoiler.

 

No, the more modern type whereby we get to find out what's happening in Coronation Street this month before it airs next month.

 

Or, in the case of this story from Autoguide yesterday, the new AMG GT is seen before its launch on September 9th  (aka Tuesday).  Mercedes were keen to get their car into the Driveclub Computer Game and footage of the car in the game has now leaked out onto the Web.

Meanwhile, over in The Middle East, as told in this Telegraph story, we have to presume that Aston Martin would not have been too chuffed with Oman Air deciding to publicise the fact that they were transporting the new Aston Martin Lagonda with undisguised pictures.

 

The car was being shipped out for warm-weather testing - it has not had its official debut and first deliveries aren't due until next year. 

Meanwhile, over in the USA, as told in this Car&Driver story, what is believed to be engine & brake information for the forthcoming 2016 Mustang GT350 has been accidentally included in Ford's own parts website.  Oops.

So, has the motoring industry become more leaky?

 Or maybe this was just an excuse to put in a picture of Alex Kingston...