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Another ugly gap. (also, the video just announced that Bentley has a no passenger screen policy. be thankful for small mercies, I guess, hey @dennieedwards.bsky.social?)

Close-up of the centre console in a Bentley luxury SUV, showing pale leather upholstery with contrasting stitching beside a glossy black control panel and dark padded trim. A hand gestures toward the console controls.

There's another unsightly gap here.

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LOOK AT THE GAP AROUND THE VENT!? You could fit one of Piech's children through that! Also the trim looks like it came from a late 90s/early00s Formica collection.

Close-up of a circular metal air vent in a Bentley luxury SUV, set within finely patterned metallic dashboard trim. A hand points toward the vent’s machined centre section, with pale leather upholstery and part of the digital instrument display visible alongside.

THERE'S A MASSIVE FUCKING GAP AROUND THE VENT!

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The VO introduces these as the same column stalks from the new Audi Q3. That's exactly what you want to hear (and see and feel) when you hop into your eleventyhundred thousand dollar Bentley, I'm sure. Also, the rads and surfacing of the silver trim panel manage to look really cheap from here.

Close-up view of the driver’s side of a Bentley luxury SUV interior, featuring a two-tone teal and white steering wheel with contrasting stitching, a wide digital instrument display and metallic dashboard trim. Pale leather upholstery, suede-like teal surfaces and circular metal air vents create a richly detailed, contemporary cabin.

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Ok, I could be wrong here... But: I am looking forward to seeing the result of water pooling and evaporating from those depressions in the hood, leaving behind a dusty scum. WHY ARE THERE SAD DUSTY DEPRESSIONS IN THE HOOD!? Bentley =. powerful hood. This thing presents like a eunuch.

Front three-quarter view of a silver Bentley luxury SUV displayed indoors, with its large illuminated diamond-pattern grille and split LED headlights prominent. A man in a beige suit stands beside the vehicle, gesturing toward it as he presents the car, with exposed brick walls and black curtains in the background.

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OH GOD THEY MADE ONE IN MATT THE-MORNING-AFTER-THE-NIGHT-BEFORE YELLOW (it's probably called Citrine Mist or some such) ((i am 34 seconds into the video. i'm not sure how much more i can take))

Front three-quarter view of a metallic green Bentley luxury SUV displayed indoors. The vehicle features a large illuminated diamond-pattern grille, split LED headlights, black lower trim and multi-spoke alloy wheels. Exposed brickwork and black curtains form the backdrop.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 23/09/2026

Fisker Ocean, but make it Seville.

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Bentley clearly going the extra mile to hide the Cayenne dash architecture here. Didn't someone say that VAG was struggling these days?

Wide view of the front cabin of a Bentley Torcal SUV, featuring a two-tone leather steering wheel, digital instrument display, large central touchscreen and metallic dashboard trim. Pale leather upholstery, soft pink ambient lighting and intricately patterned speaker grilles give the interior a bright, contemporary appearance.

Meme showing a person attempting an unconvincing disguise by pulling a purple hoodie tightly around their face and wearing dark sunglasses while standing in a crowd. Text reads: “Hero: it’s ok they’ll never find me, I’ll just put on a disguise. The disguise:”

Wide view of the driver’s cockpit of a Porsche Cayenne, featuring a leather steering wheel, curved digital instrument cluster, large central touchscreen and a separate passenger display. The predominantly black interior is accented by green ambient lighting across the dashboard, doors and footwells, with a dashboard-mounted clock above the centre console.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 23/09/2026

Ok, it categorically doesn't get better. This looks like a bloated Cupra Formentor, a car designed with the subtlety of a blunt chisel, to which someone has taken an even blunter chisel. It looks depressed! Like it needs meds! Whither swagger!? Whither vim!?

Front three-quarter view of a silver Bentley Torcal SUV displayed indoors. The vehicle features a large illuminated diamond-pattern grille, split LED headlights, sculpted bodywork and large multi-spoke alloy wheels, with black curtains and exposed brick walls in the background.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 23/09/2026

I'm 4 seconds into a video on Bentley's small SUEV and, already, planetary annihilation feels like a better way to both begin and end this day. Where does one even begin with this? And I've not even seen the side or back yet. Oy. *rubs temples*

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 19/09/2026

(for context, as i’ve previously mentioned, I was there when Accenture signed a deal with Facebook to popularise the metaverse. and we all know how that worked out)

Screenshot of Accenture PLC (NYSE: ACN) stock information showing a price of US$181.29 as of 19 September 2026. The five-year chart shows the share price down US$157.94, or 46.56%, over the selected period, with a pronounced decline through 2025 and 2026. Additional figures shown include a 52-week high of US$291.09, 52-week low of US$118.15, P/E ratio of 15.196 and market capitalisation of US$116 billion.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 19/09/2026

This is the closest we’ve come to witnessing mutually assured destruction since the time of Khrushchev and Kennedy and I wish the happy couple every success.

Screenshot of a CNBC Tech article with the headline: “Anthropic selects Accenture as first embedded evaluator to help implement Amodei’s slowdown proposal.” The article, by Ashley Capoot, is dated September 18, 2026.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 16/09/2026

Gotta keep sellin’ this chips, eh, Jensen? (mark’s so far behind he’d just as happily see the others burn, probs)

Screenshot of the Financial Times mobile website showing an article about artificial intelligence. The accompanying photograph shows a grey-haired man wearing glasses and a black leather jacket, speaking into a microphone while raising one finger. The headline reads: “Nvidia and Meta bosses reject efforts to co-ordinate AI slowdown.”

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This is categorically not a pretty car.

Front three-quarter view of a silver Aston Martin sports car emerging from a car wash, its headlights illuminated and bodywork reflecting the wet pavement. A man at the left gestures toward the car, while the bright orange facade of a Total Tools store fills the background.

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Big dog has entered the car wash.

A person walks a small dog on a lead across the wet pavement of a car wash, silhouetted in the foreground. Behind them, a dark Aston Martin sports car faces the camera with its headlights on, with other cars and the bright orange facade of a Total Tools store in the background.

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Bonus fruity Alfa, which continues to win the ”Close But No Cigar“ prize for sensational proportions wrapped in the laziest of surfaces.

Rear three-quarter view of a red Alfa Romeo Giulia QV sports sedan being washed at a covered car wash. The car features black alloy wheels, quad exhaust outlets and a rear diffuser, with water and soap visible on the windows. A silver Volvo C40 is parked alongside on the wet concrete.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 11/09/2026

It’s kinda crazy to me how the end of civilisation at the hand of some SV manchilds has just casually slipped into the discourse and we’re all supposed to be like “huh, I guess that’s so…” and get on with our lives. Meanwhile, here’s a lovely 997 with an ambitious number plate and the GS in back:

Rear three-quarter view of a silver Porsche 911 Carrera S with the number plate “GT2” parked at a car wash, surrounded by other vehicles. Water mist hangs in the air and the wet pavement catches the sunlight, while a support column partially obscures the scene.

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BMW XM owner doing BMW XM things:

Front three-quarter view of a dark BMW XM luxury SUV on a city street at dusk. The SUV’s large kidney grille is brightly illuminated, with red accent lighting around the grille and side windows. The driver is visible through the windscreen raising their middle finger toward the camera, while pedestrians and illuminated storefronts appear in the background.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 11/09/2026

Me: mum, I want some lipstick on a pig Mum: we have a pig with lipstick on at home The lipsticked pig at home:

Front three-quarter view of a dark grey Mercedes-Benz electric luxury sedan, showing its illuminated grille, Mercedes star hood ornament, LED headlights, sculpted front bumper and large multi-spoke alloy wheel.

It is a feral clash of forms, graphics, and textures, a facelift that is belatedly trying to add a traditional grille element to a car which was expressly designed without one.

It represents the worst kind of grotesquery in automotive design, wholly deserving of the epithetical description “lipstick on a pig”.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 05/09/2026

Twist-lock Focal tweeter holder on the left. My reverse-engineered parts on the right. And in the background, the original Mercedes tweeter and its holder. The idea is to copy and adapt the Mercedes holder to accept the Focal tweeter and the twist-lock holder on the back.

Several black 3D-printed components for a custom car-audio tweeter mount are arranged on a desk alongside a Focal tweeter and its original housing. A pair of Mitutoyo vernier calipers sits in the foreground, with a keyboard, speaker cable, marker and books in the background.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 29/08/2026

I love my friend @banovsky.com’s writing. You might love it, too. His newsletter is here: www.weirdcaroftheday.com?ref=weird-ca...

Car enthusiasts love to give their opinions on how so-and-so vehicle should be configured, but the move to unibody construction made one-off or limited series bodywork difficult and so have resigned themselves to the sonderwunsch cuck chair, taking any slantnose offered and liking it.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 21/08/2026

NA. NB. NC. ND. I dunno man. I don’t make the naming conventions. Newly comely? Because that generation kinda was, compared to priors and afters, at least.

British Racing Green NA-generation Mazda MX-5 with pop-up headlights raised, driven open-top along a country road through English summer fields, motion blur conveying speed

Cobalt blue NB-generation Mazda MX-5 driven open-top along a straight English country road, golden harvested fields blurred behind it, fixed headlights marking the generational step from the NA

Velocity Red NC-generation Mazda MX-5 shot from a low front angle on an open British road, dramatic cloud formations filling the wide sky above, the rounder more muscular bodywork distinguishing it clearly from its predecessors

ND-generation Mazda MX-5 in ceramic metallic silver with bronze alloys, driven open-top along a desert highway at dusk, mountain ranges silhouetted under a pastel sky, the leaner more sculpted fourth-generation bodywork on full display

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 21/08/2026

Multifaceted commitment to the bit.

Dark navy NC-generation Mazda MX-5 with personalised NSW plates reading “ZOOMZM”, fitted with deep-dish steel wheels and a aftermarket exhaust, parked outside the Broulee supermarket against a rusted corrugated iron wall

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 15/08/2026

NGL this looks like a Temu GTD.

Yet another Aston Martin “special” (I think it’s called the Valen? Really? Ugh, whatever…) in a dramatic copper-to-black gradient finish, its aggressive front splitter, wide haunches and dark alloys photographed in a neutral studio setting.

It looks like Aston Martin ripped off the Ford Mustang GTD, TBQH.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 15/08/2026

Mercedes: can we have future classics? Mum: we have future classics at home. The future classic at home:

A blauschwartz r129 Mercedes 500 SL in a deserted Parking lot in early morning light.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 14/08/2026

Dude: Bro! Watcha rollin!? Bro: A Mackle Sexget! Dude: 🫥 (for fuck’s sake)

Close-up of a McLaren 6GT rear panel in deep red, “McL 6GT” badging prominent between twin exhaust outlets and carbon diffuser elements

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 13/08/2026

Also: this freeze frame is *absolutely* me, rushing to do a queer somewhere.

Animated GIF still of a red-headed girl in a crown driving a rounded burgundy vintage car, leaning forward intently at the wheel, in a classic hand-drawn animation style

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 12/08/2026

So clean it hurts. Summer Hill, NSW. 13.08.26. #CSOM #CarsSideOnMostly

Silver GC8-generation Subaru Impreza WRX wagon parked on a Sydney street at golden hour, five-spoke alloys and subtle body kit catching the warm light, dense trees and wrought iron fence glowing amber behind it

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 10/08/2026

Rented one of these in Texas. Had a hoot, obviously.

A tiny white Fiat 500 dwarfed between two heavily lifted American pickup trucks — a black GMC Sierra and a beige Chevrolet Silverado — in a Texas car park, the size contrast almost comedic

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 10/08/2026

Just gonna leave this here...

High-contrast black and white performance photograph of Amazing Grace (Jones) with a severe flat-top haircut playing a large accordion on a platform, dramatic shadow cast behind her, microphone stand to her left, wearing a structured bodysuit and stilettos

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 09/08/2026

An unexpected new expense: nail polish. Oh girl am I having fun.

Hand holding three nail polish bottles — a Sally Hansen Miracle Gel primer, a silver-blue glitter colour, and a Sally Hansen Miracle Gel top coat in gold packaging — photographed inside a vintage Mercedes with wood-trimmed dashboard visible behind

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 08/08/2026

The AIs seem to have me pegged as an aging homo lothario and they’re not entirely wrong. I did rent a 560 SL for my first trip to Palm Springs, and I do have a model of an Lancia Aurelia roadster on my bookshelf.

The same "what car fits my aesthetic" prompt posed to a different AI, answered simply: "Lancia Flaminia Coupé.

Lancia Flaminia Coupé in muted steel blue with cream interior, its elegant roofline and chrome bumper photographed from the rear three-quarter angle against a weathered brick warehouse wall

Claude chat screenshot showing the prompt "Based on what you know about me, what car fits my aesthetic. Name just the car" with a "Synthesizing aesthetic preferences with v…" thinking step visible, answered simply: "Mercedes-Benz 560 SL"

Period brochure shot of a Mercedes-Benz 560 SL R107 roadster driven open-top by a couple along a mountain road, quad headlights glowing, the car’s broad black grille and three-pointed star filling the frame

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 06/08/2026

BMW did it better in 19-fucking-89, when they commissioned Kumantje Jagamara, a Papunya man, for Art Car #7. You'd think, in this our year of 2026, that Porsche might have thought to honour the legacy of First Nations art in this country. But no. *sigh*

BMW E30 M3 Art Car covered in Michael Jagamara Nelson's intricate First Nations dot painting in earthy reds, ochres and whites, the artist's name lettered along the sill, reflected on the dark studio floor

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 06/08/2026

Double dog dick red on a fat Panny makes it look like lipstick that escaped the tube. It also feels like just the thing for @midnightdorifto.bsky.social h/t to my resident Japanese fat Panny lover, @hennagaijinapb.bsky.social for digging out this outrageous lick of Elizabeth Arden.

Porsche Panamera Turbo in Dog Dick Red, presented in a bright white Japanese dealership showroom, yellow brake callipers and dark multi-spoke alloys visible beneath the fastback roofline

Rear three-quarter view of the same Dog Dick Red Panamera Turbo, quad exhausts and active rear spoiler visible beneath the swept fastback tail, yellow brake calipers peeking behind the dark alloys, "Panamera Turbo" badging legible on the bootlid

Panamera Turbo interior showing vivid Dog Dick Red leather sport seats and door cards contrasting with carbon fibre steering wheel trim and dark alcantara transmission tunnel, Porsche crest centred on the wheel, PDK gear selector and analogue instrument cluster visible

Close-up of the Panamera's brushed aluminium door sill plate with "turbo" script, Dog Dick Red leather seat bolster and chrome adjustment controls above, Porsche-logoed floor mat visible behind

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 04/08/2026

Lunch with mother done. I will not be taking questions at this time. (but yes, it’s always teal time)

The author reclining against a large fig tree in Sydney botanic gardens, round sunglasses, emerald chandelier earring, teal zip-up jacket, throwing a rock-horns hand gesture toward the camera with blue-grey-painted nails, deadpan expression

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 02/08/2026

There’s a very good reason I haven’t yet changed the lenses on the GS…

Front-left view of a grey Lexus GS 450h parked outdoors, showing the grille, left headlight and front bumper. Reflections from nearby windows cross the bonnet and windscreen, and the vehicle displays a New South Wales number plate.

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 01/08/2026

Oof, yet another beautiful version of this song (the original and Kurt Elling’s also on my list).

iPhone music player showing Eva Cassidy’s “American Tune” playing at 0:38, album art depicting a woman leaning against a rural split-rail fence in misty pastoral surroundings, casting to Apple TV in the Living Room

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 01/08/2026

At the Narooma Pub, which has “MILLION DOLLAR VIEW” appended to its signage. It’s not hard to see why, really.

Dusk view over an Australian coastal river mouth, a sandy spit curving through calm water catching the last golden light, fishing vessels moored along the foreshore below, soft peach and blue gradient sky fading to the horizon

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Drew Smith @drewpasmith.com · 31/07/2026

South Head Beach, Moruya Heads, New South Wales. 31.07.26.

Full moon partially obscured by dramatic cloud bank over a dark ocean, its silver light tracking across the wet sand and breaking waves, stars faintly visible in the deep blue sky above

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ROFL & LOL. Source: www.ft.com/content/77ba...

Screenshot of a Financial Times article discussing Amazon’s AI spending. The text describes an internal example where a project using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet to match author details to ecommerce listings reportedly cost US$1.8 million despite failing, representing an 860 per cent budget overrun that went undetected for five months. Amazon is quoted as saying it is experimenting with AI while improving cost efficiencies.

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Utter fucking door porn Pt. 2 (headphones on) #SaccoEra

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One thing that absolutely sucks about R129s is that the structural plastics haven’t stood the test of time, so things like the locator lugs for the seat control panels break and the panels flap about in the doors. Fortunately, 3D printing means improved new parts are availble.

Disassembled R129 seat control panel showing the black plastic mounting bracket, metal side plate and detached locking lever laid out on a protective sheet. The components have been separated for inspection or repair.

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This is the armrest cubby lid, showing the two little adjustable receivers for the pneumatic central locking latches. Not shown: the c.20 screws that hold it all together and onto the door. Also love the little easter eggs of manufacturing dates and the new one “With passion for Benz & Co”

Disassembled black Mercedes R129 door armrest cubby lid out on a protective sheet, showing the padded trim cover, internal housing, metal reinforcement strip, springs and mounting clips separated for refurbishment or repair.

Close-up of a black metal automotive component with a green factory inspection label showing manufacturer, part number and production details, including a handwritten inspection date of 20 March 1992.

Close-up of a replacement R129 armrest hinge by RSC Autotechnik showing the moulded German text “MIT LEIDENSCHAFT FÜR BENZ & CO” and part of the internal spring mechanism, with other disassembled components visible in the background.

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