Rock stars, racing gods, rental-car lunacy and F1's great battery babysitting backflip
From Buddy Holly’s coral-pink Impala to Ayrton Senna’s first Formula One car, this week’s car world is a glorious collision of nostalgia, speed, money and stupidity — with F1 scrambling to fix its over-clever 2026 rules, Avis turning into a meme-stock circus, Volkswagen shrinking its future, and Florida thieves proving that even a Lamborghini is vulnerable if Trevor leaves the keys inside.

