In the “good old times” cars had larger windows and were more built in a way that actually allowed you to look out of them.
If you need any kind of camera in a Volvo Estate built before the year 2000, then you should really reconsider driving yourself.
Watch your surroundings, look where you’re going, remember where you…

If you need a backup cam, then either your car is too big or you are the problem.
I cannot envision any situation with a normal car that would need a backup camera. Stop buying those gas-guzzling SUVs and lifted trucks, then you can actually see the terror in the eyes of the people you run over.

Thanks to your…

Two Toyota Sera in attendance? Damn! And the green one looks nice!

I say nice price as a German.
You will not find a Panda in this state anywhere anymore in this country for this money, period.
They’ve all been abused to death since they were cheap first cars for learners and treated as such: driven to the max, overtaking anything that was slower than their 130km/h topspeed (145km/h…

The Vector W8 also has an outboard shifter, although it is an Automatic.

Have you ever worked on a game and had to license stuff to use it in your project? I gather from your answers that this is not the case.
I have, and it is really not that simple as you paint it.
Concerning mods you are wrong, as long as they do not distribute anything that might be user outside of the original game, it…

That is not quite correct, you seem the be the one who is in the dark here. I have been working in the game industry for years now, and it is a bit more complex than you might think.
It is not a problem to MOD a game, and use the characters, names, trademarks etc... that are already IN the game, since their use was…

To everybody who says “it was just a mod”: No, it was not.
A mod would just add content, but still run in the original engine, using the original game to transport its content.
As soon as they changed the engine, they lost all legal grounds to stand on.
Lucasfilm HAD to write that C&D-letter, because otherwise Lucasfilm…

His own son recently debunked this reported attack as a rumor, that has been proven wrong years before, and has just recently surfaced again by reporters interviewing his mother to bring this onto the table again for clickbait reasons.
Check it out, he gave a statement online concerning exactly this point.

We all do not…

The stuff that marketing guy babbles on about is NOT what the typical 3-series driver wants to hear.
They don’t want it to be easier to drive at high speed. They don’t want it to be more silent, more comfortable, more cocooned.
I know not a single person who have driven a fast E46 or E30 that would want more comfort and…

^^ it is a bit more complex, but you’re not far off. I would rather compare the Xbox OS to the Windows Server Core edition, running nothing but the bespoke applications it was designed for.
All code is run in a closed-off sandbox environment, games from the microsoft windows store are actually running in a similar…

Correct. The difference is only that iirc Sony has a lot of actual consoles doing the rendering there, while MS could theoretically use their vast cloud infrastructure to do the calculations on any machine and then stream the result. They have a lot of unused horsepower around the globe at any given moment, and the…

They are probably making a new one so they can switch (haha) to a new hardware revision which doesn’t have that un-fixable bug builtin which allows homebrew stuff to run.
One of the reason prices of current models haven’t come down much, the demand is there.

There is a 996 first gen for sale here in Libel Turquoise Metallic with green interior.
I almost bought it for the color alone!

Then again, I have a soft spot for weird Porsche colors. If I had money, I would repaint my 911 in Violettchromaflair ^^

Do not forget the earlier “virtual tours”. There was a NCC-1701D interactive technical manual, as well as another disc which had tours of all kinds of bridges. It was early Quicktime VR tech being used, but you could “jump” from point to point in the ship and look around, kind of like a Google Streetview tour.

^^
Porsche actually did a lot of engine work for other companies. There were the infamous SEAT engines with “System Porsche” stamped on the valve covers, the Volvo 4-5-6 engine family of the 850, later 960/V90 and first V40 was built in cooperation with Porsche (it was designed as a family of engines, so that the…

I just wanted to write this!
The Volvo 480 Turbo, which was available from 1988 on, hat its modest Renault 19 engine outfitted with a Mitsubishi turbocharger. The development work was done by none other than: PORSCHE.
That is the reason why there’s a 480 sitting there. I immediately recognized it, I had two of them ^^

It actually wasn’t that short lived in Japan. Also, it had quite a few controllers, the Twinsticks for Virtua On, a racing wheel, an anlogue flightstick which could be configured from right hand to left hand (pretty cool actually!), and two different arcade sticks (the ony offered in Japan was vastly superior,…

No, the reason was different. The copy protection of the PS1 could be foiled with a matchstick. Sony knew it, Nintendo knew it, everyone knew it.
That was the way you sold consoles back then, because kids could swap burned discs (which came down in price just at that moment in time) on schoolyards. There were shops…

These were built long after Lotus stopped making them by... KIA! Granted, a “Kia Elan” doesn’t sound nearly half as good, but they are of better built quality, and rumored to have even more reliable engines in them.
That said, this one is a Turbo, and as such is a bargain. The dropping windows are the norm for the Elan…