I know that cooking late is for the birds, but it’s that time of year where it’s difficult to tell whether it’s late or not. The sun isn’t supposed to set at four in the afternoon! But whatever the hour is, we are happy to serve up scraps of news blurbs that might be interesting. Are they leftovers? Sure…but don’t give us that judgemental look, we know how long you held onto Thanksgiving leftovers. Here’s this week’s Scrapple…enjoy!

1. It’s the Rolls-Royce of SUVs! …wait

We don’t have the legal ability to show you the photos of the Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV just yet, but rest assured, Rolls-Royce have managed to fit an ultra-luxurious apartment with all of the best touches into a truck wagon. Personally, we’d rather keep looking at the “Project Cullinan” development mule first.

2. We suddenly understand the push for autonomous vehicles.

20 years old, doing over 110 MPH on a Rhode Island highway, swerving through traffic before rear-ending a large truck hard enough that the Jaws of Life had to be employed. Driver is recovering at hospital, and will be facing plenty of charges. We aren’t printing his name because honestly, he’s learned the best lesson he can from this incident: your stupidity should be painful.

3. LIAR!!

Did you recently buy a Ram 1500, only to wonder why the Hemi doesn’t feel as gutsy as you thought it would? That’s because a few trucks managed to escape the factory wearing Hemi badges they didn’t deserve. How you could confuse the sound of the Pentastar V6 for a V8 is beyond us, but if you’re really upset, you can take your truck to the dealership to get de-badged.

4. Apparently an issue over braking isn’t moving fast enough. 

As it stands right now, emergency autonomous braking will be a mandated item by 2022. But for consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, that isn’t fast enough, so they’ve taken to suing the NHTSA to fast-track the program. Our take stays the same: if you cannot be bothered to actually drive the car, cut up your license and look to see who your nearest Uber driver is.

5. Au revoir, gasoil.

Just a couple of years ago, France was the home of the small diesel car. But the romance is certainly dead, because the country is still talking about ceasing sales of diesel engines entirely. Between heavy pollution in Paris and other metropolitan areas and the damaging effect that the Volkswagen scandal has had, France’s government, and in particular their Environment Minister, seem more than ready to send cars to the scrappers. Recently Paris has dramatically restricted access of 1997 and older vehicles into the city, and there has been talks of banning any vehicle with an engine made before 2010.