When I saw the headline “One of you needs to buy this $2200 Subaru 360" and saw the pictures, I immediately checked the byline.
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I’ll have to dig around and see where it was linked. It was only posted verbatim by one website, IIRC. Most of the web reports in July paraphrased the the press release, but the actual Honda USA press release said “Si sedan”. I hope it wasn’t 100% accurate, or they change their mind.
I had an ‘89 hatch and a ‘98 hatch. Cars like that are too small for modern crash tests (and American market tastes) unfortunately.
Yeah, I don’t get all the hate here - It looks like they’ve cleaned up all the awkward attempts to style the current Gen 10 hatch as “aggressive”, particularly those awful-looking fake vents on the bumpers.
I sure hope the next Si comes as a hatch, but the press release that came out in July was worded in a way that indicated it would be sedan-only.
The Elvis racing movies are cheesy and fun: “Speedway”, “Viva Las Vegas.”
Is that language Dutch or Afrikaans? The Vauxhall branding would be consistent with an ex-British colony like South Africa. If the ad were Dutch, the car would be branded as an Opel, right? Also, the outdoorsy hunting scene with the rifle would be more consistent with South Africa than the Netherlands. Probably an…
The picture with the end plate cutting the tire is (I think) probably from the British Grand Prix of 1969. Rindt and Jackie Stewart had a good battle going, but Rindt had to pit to fix the endplate, which handed Stewart the victory.
I was a kid in grammar school when this happened, but I remember very clearly reading about Jochen Rindt’s in the newspaper that Labor Day Sunday of 1970. It was a real shock, I had the intense fandom for racing that you only have when you’re a kid. F1 wasn’t covered much on TV in those days, but there had been a…
Correction - It looks like the “French Grand Prix” is actually the LeMans race of 1952, not 1953. The #60 Pit stop is for the Monopole X84.
That footage labeled “French Grand Prix” is not labeled accurately. That title implies it’s a Formula 1 race, but the cars are from the 1953 LeMans 24-hour race, which is an endurance race that has never been part of the F1 Calendar. There are pictures on the web, here’s a collection of some of the entries. The white…
“two were also destroyed after their successful season.”
That was one of the problems with the car originally - Goodyear didn’t want to do tire compound development for tires that were unique to just one team.
About 20 years ago, the book “The Millionaire Next Door” by Stanley and Danko touched on the same topics. They had a metric that I see get referenced a lot:
As far as actually buying one, the Elantra GT N-lines were rare as hen’s teeth on dealer lots. I did an inventory search last year, and there were none anywhere near close to me in stock. I had to expand the search to a 250 mile radius and there were only two in stock in that large search area.
Yes, they never seemed to allocate many of these GT N-lines to dealers. I did an inventory search after seeing it reviewed last year, and I think there were two Elantra GT N-lines in stock within a 250 mile radius of me.
This reminds me that Steve Spielberg said in recent years that “American Graffiti” would be prohibitively expensive to make nowadays - The music licensing would be too expensive.
It doesn’t seem to work for stations north of Cold Spring!
Those predictive texts are hilarious! They’re the real Easter Egg in that segment: