Is it over? Is our annual national nightmare of who plays schoolyard sports best over and done with until next year? Nah, not really…baseball season is up next. Whatever. The Super Bowl has come and gone, and it’s now time for what’s really important: early drag racing testing season! Yeah, buddy, if you’re in Arizona, Florida or any other place where the weather isn’t actively trying to either turn your front yard into a cold swamp or isn’t trying to turn you into Frosty the Snowman, now is the perfect time to take advantage of cooler air and tracks that are more than happy to let you make some rips for a fee.

1. Purosangue in the ass…How low do you have to go to find yourself suing an anti-doping charity foundation for a name? Well, ask someone in the upper reaches of Ferrari, because that’s exactly what they are doing. On March 5th, Ferrari will find themselves in a Bologna court trying to claim the trademark of “Purosangue” from the Purosangue Foundation. Ferrari claims that the registration for the trademark should be removed because there was a “lack of use”. The charity is buckling down and is preparing to fight with all they have.

Purosangue means “pure blood”, and it’s kind of funny that a company that just a couple of years ago swore they’d never make an SUV is now going after a non-profit charity so they can use the name on their new SUV.

2. Speaking of Ferrari…

A couple who were trying to sell their 2014 458 Italia via Ferrari of San Antonio discovered that when the dealership appeared with a $220,000 offer on their car, that the dealership themselves were trying to buy the car…namely, because the Ferrari was totaled out in an accident. The circumstances are disputed…the sellers claim a dealership employee waxed the car off of the register after joyriding it, while the dealership says that they had a customer ready, and after the accident, the dealership moved to make the sale happen at the price that had been agreed upon.

Lesson? Nobody gets the keys to the Ferrari until AFTER money changes hands.

3. Ghosn and Friends, the new sitcom!

Looks like Carlos Ghosn will have company if Japan gets lucky enough to extradite him back to face the music. Not only is Ghosn the subject of an Interpol red notice, but Tokyo prosecutors have issued warrants for three people who assisted in his escape late last year: 59-year-old Michael Taylor, 60-year-old George Zeyek, and 26-year-old Peter Taylor. The three men are being charged under Japan’s Immigration Control Law for failing to go through immigration control, and to conspire to hide a suspect. Additionally, Carole Ghosn, Carlos’s wife, has been charged with providing false testimony last year in court.

4. Um…is this a good or bad thing?

Passenger car MOT testing in Northern Ireland has come to a halt as it was discovered that the lifts at test centers were cracking. Bus and truck testing will continue, and vehicles older that four years old will get an exemption certificate. Newer vehicles that can’t be exempted will get priority and will have to line up with the truck and bus bays. If you’ve ever seen UK and Ireland levels of rust, you’ll understand why this is raising a few eyebrows.

5. How could they have guessed?So, fun fact: tart up a Nissan Navara all you want, tweak the suspension and give it a nose like a C-class, but ultimately nobody on Earth is going to want to shell out the money for a Benz when a perfectly good Navara is less expensive. After debuting in 2018, the X-class pickup truck will be killed off at the end of May, 2020. Can you say, “flop”, boys and girls?